Britain ‘No Longer Bashful’ According To Rough Guides
May 21, 2012There’s “something very un-British about the brash bravado” of the marketing label ‘Cool Britannia’ according to the new Rough Guide to Britain. But that doesn’t mean Brits aren’t proud of who we are. “The Empire may be long gone, and Britain may be uncertain about its political role in the modern world, but it’s no longer bashful about its successes” claim Rough Guides “The long build-up to London’s 2012 Olympics, and Glasgow’s 2014 Commonwealth Games, has put Britain centre stage again.”
“If you didn’t know that the ‘Great’ in Great Britain was a strictly geographical term then you’d be tempted to give Britain that accolade anyway. It’s hard to think of another country that’s given so much to the world – railways to royalty, shipbuilding to Shakespeare, football to fish and chips”
Britain’s charm is in the undiscovered and idiosyncratic. Whether you are looking for urban adventures, pagan festivals, cutting-edge galleries, world-class museums, wilderness hikes or majestic buildings – Britain is undoubtedly best.
Rough Guides pick of the top things to do in Britain:
1) The Gower Peninsula
2) Brighton
3) Manchester’s Nightlife
4) The Lake District
5) West Highland Railway
6) Whale-and-Dolphin-Watching
7) Avebury
8) Whitby
9) Under the Pier Show, Southwold
10) The British Museum
11) The Edinburgh Festival
12) Eden Project, Cornwall
13) Jorvik, York
14) London’s Markets
15) Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, London
16) Surfing in North Devon
17) Iona, Argyll
18) Walking the Pennine Way
19) Stately Homes and Palaces
20) Whiskey in Scotland
21) Hadrian’s Wall Path, Northumberland
22) Curry in Bradford
23) Kinloch Castle, Rùm
24) Oxford
25) Hay-on-Wye Literary Festival
26) Blaenafon
27) Edward I’s Iron Ring
28) Bath
29) Seafood in Cornwall
30) Durham Cathedral
31) Portmeirion
32) Glasgow School of Art
