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]

Thanks for the recs! Tbh, I would also take recs for more stuff to do/see/etc in York.

[hokuton_punch]

Ahh, let's see what else I can think of... (I was really a terrible international student, I hardly went out exploring at all. /o\ ) The Guild Hall museum off Fossgate is pretty interesting! And King's Manor is not very far away from the Minster and neat to explore, plus the City Museum and gardens are right behind it and full of stuff (like the multangular Roman tower with Norman construction on top of it). I second walking around the walls, that's a lot of fun. And the Minster library in the old archbishop's palace is neat, though they don't have a lot of displays or anything. And the Shambles is nice to walk down (with a little shrine to a Catholic saint who was martyred in York, St. Margaret of Clitherow).

[dhampyresa]

Thank you!