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

[dhampyresa.livejournal.com]

THE BOOKSTORE VILLAGE AKA MY DREAM PLACE YES I WILL GO THERE

Thank you for the recs! The Orkneys look cool and I think it'll be nice to go there.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Enjoy it :D

Oh, and since you'll be in Edinburgh, I just heard recently that they have a catacomb-like system of underground tunnels called the "Edinburgh Vaults", and you can go on tours of them!

[dhampyresa.livejournal.com]

That is very RTMI, thank you!