'Sight-seeing' is not a good enough reason to visit the UK?

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Are you from Oldham?

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raggedjimmi,

You've said you weren't keen on the South. I understand about London, it's kinda hellish there. But what about Gloucestershire's Cotswolds, Somerset, Devon, Dorset, Cornwall and Hampshire's New Forest - all beautiful to see!

I would have to say the South tends to get far better weather than up North anyway. I remembered having to travel up to Blackpool by train from Bournemouth all in a day which it was warm and sunny in Bournemouth then to arrive in Blackpool that it was bucketing down with rain and felt chilly!

I wouldn't call Saddleworth as beautiful as it's an infamous murder scene after all plus Manchester can get a tad grimy in the dark winter months anyway.

What I like about the south are the forests, which you don't seem to get much up here. We stayed in a campsite near London once (though that's a bit loose, it was way in the countryside), I forget exactly where, and it was really beautiful. Went on a walk and just got lost in this giant forest, when I got home there was a story about an old woman who saw a big cat in the area
And of course the extreme south, Cornwall and Devon with their lovely sparse villages. Haven't been there for many years though.
About the weather, I find the weather is just a little more dynamic up here because of the pennines. Some days we get hotter weather than the south, some days we don't. Earlier this year we had several days that had hot sun mixed with snow storms in the afternoon.
You're taking marks off Saddleworth because of the Moors Murderers? Regardless of what they did it's an astonishingly beautiful parish, seeped in history both good and bad.

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