Visit to the UK

[Platy767]

You probably don't want to visit Bath, but just in case your missus is a Jane Austen fan, stock up on your books from The Titfield Thunderbolt Bookshop.

Even if you don't visit Bath, order your books online and get them delivered to a place you are staying. Bring them home in your luggage and save on the hostage, sorry, postage.
Lots of other booksellers as well.

Enjoy,
(Jealous) Mark

[Cols]

I note that KiwiAlan is intending to visit Didcot Railway Centre, and further down his list of "must dos", is the Pendon Museum at Long Wittenham. Whenever I've visited the Great Western Society at Didcot, I've often paired that with a visit to Pendon Museum - if you go by car, it's only about four or five miles from Didcot. I still think that it's probably the finest railway and landscape modelling that I'll ever see. (A visit there often results in me looking rather wistfully over my stored collection of EM gauge stock!)

[Graham]

agree, on a visit from Aus a few years ago we went to Pendon first then Didcot, both very easily doable in a day. And both very worthwile.

[KiwiAlan]

I note that KiwiAlan is intending to visit Didcot Railway Centre, and further down his list of "must dos", is the Pendon Museum at Long Wittenham. Whenever I've visited the Great Western Society at Didcot, I've often paired that with a visit to Pendon Museum - if you go by car, it's only about four or five miles from Didcot. I still think that it's probably the finest railway and landscape modelling that I'll ever see. (A visit there often results in me looking rather wistfully over my stored collection of EM gauge stock!)

I have memories of long days at Pendon, pressing buttons and watching trains crossing the viaduct, while my father would be making trees, or at least I think that's what he was making. I would have been about 8 at the time.
I'm told that when we lived in Brignorth in the 1970's that my father would take me into the SVR yard and we would clamber across the various locomotives. My mother was not amused by me arriving home covered in coal dust.
Visited Didcot many times when living in the Cotswolds, but due to age probably didn't appreciate it fully. Will compensate this trip.
I was very fortunate at a child to have had a train obsessed father.