Help me (not) sleep under a bridge

[dhampyresa]

I am most likely going to spend about three weeks/a month in Great Britain this August.

It'll be just me.

I have no idea what I'm doing yet. I want to go Wales, Scotland, Cornwall, possibly more places, and will likely spend a couple days in London, if only to get over the massive jetlag of going from a French to British timezone. A whole hour, the horror.

I may also see some people. Both from RL and fandom -- definitely lunik_the_bard for sure.

I'll probably go to Edinburgh for the Fringe Festival, likely in the first half of the month, as apparently that's when most the shows I want to see are. But nothing's set in stone.

Literally nothing is set in stone.

I don't want to do super touristy stuff for this trip, I'm looking for more unusual stuff like stuff I wouldn't find out about if someone didn't tell me about it. But anything interesting will do. Nothing is too weird! (I will totally sleep under a bridge if that's an option.)

TL;DR: Rec me stuff to see/do in Great Britain. Assume I know nothing.


EDIT: I will not be using a car, I will also be doing England and I will basically take any recs, nevermind how touristy.

Comments

[dolorosa_12]

If you're going to Wales, I highly recommend Bangor and/or Anglesey. It's a bit of a pain to get there (although there is a direct train from London), but it's well worth it. The train journey up the coast is really beautiful, and you're close to cool stuff like Conwy Castle or Church Island on Menai Bridge. (That may be too touristy, I don't know...)

You didn't mention England at all, but have you considered stuff like the Uffington White Horse or indeed any of the other chalk hill figures which are scattered around in various places? They're pretty impressive (although often somewhat difficult to get to).

Are you going to have a car, or are you going to be only using public transport?

[dhampyresa]

Thanks for the recs!

I will also be doing England and the chalk figures is a great idea, thank you!

I'm not taking a car, let me edit the post.