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You'd be surprised how many people don't! 
Americans and Japanese mostly: for some reason many of them assume that you can cross Europe in any direction in an hour or so by car...
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Yeah I get the all the time here. People come to Washington DC, see the sites and think that you can just hop in a car and drive the Grand Canyon and be back in time for dinner. Most don't realize that it takes hours just to drive out of Texas in any direction from where I live.
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OriginalGriff wrote: takes about 2 hours each way
We have motor cars in England, Welshboy, so it takes nowhere near that (I'ts an hour drive from Portsmouth), guess it's slightly shorter from StoneHenge.
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Clearly you're a man who never tried to use the A303 on a regular basis!
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OriginalGriff wrote: the A303
Aaarrghh! 
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Yep!
A friend of mine used to deliver church organs for a living and he got a mention on BBC radio traffic news for causing a four hour tail back on the 303 when the brakes on his fully loaded van locked on.
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To be fair it has improved slightly since they closed off that right turn into Stonehenge. I have to use it to get from my place (Woking) to Falmouth when visiting number 1 son. And I only do that to go to the Oyster Festival in October, if I can avoid other times.
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But if you're heading down that way, anyway, you could drive on and hit the National Motor Museum in Beaulieu. It's not that much further.
But if you stop and ask for directions, don't pronounce Beaulieu as if it were French. No one will know what the heck you're talking about.
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How can you be on the last item in your bucket list. The whole idea behind a bucket list is that it NEVER gets empty.
You have yet to swim with Great White Sharks with freakin lazer beams, I'm sure.
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Well, it all depends on whether the bucket started out half-empty, or half-full... 
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There's a hole in my bucket ...
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Tower briodge and the tower of London are worth a visist, as is HMS Belfast. For something off the beaten tourist track, how about Crossness[^]?
(Also - side note - IMHO don't bother with Stonehenge...)
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: (Also - side note - IMHO don't bother with Stonehenge...)
It gets rebuilt every few years, last time was in the 60s IIRC. It's like a giant game of jenga, we keep knocking it down the putting it back together again.
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The Kensington Palace is wonderful 
If you'd like to see something outside London I'd suggest you Bath and its Jane Austen museum.
EDIT: it's != its
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Bath's a bloody long way from London for a day trip! 
However, if you're going there, I've heard good things about the Herschel museum[^] as well.
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Richard Deeming wrote: Bath's a bloody long way from London for a day trip!
Nah, I did it and I took the National Express bus, so the time required was even higher. Me and my missus mad a whole trip around town (it was very near to Christmas, and a Saturday, Bath was as full as a city can be) plus the JA museum, Plump Rooms and Regency Tea room (tea nad scones under a protrait of Ja's Mr Darcy, for my missus complete happiness ).
Missed the Herschel museum though, didn't know it was there.
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The British Museum can easily take a whole day, even the Egyptian Room can take a whole day.
Within London I would also recommend the Imperial War, Natural History and Science Museums. They are all brilliant and suitable for children aged 3 to 103. Also to consider would be the V&A, Tate and National Portrait. Finally if you have an evening, you may well like to take in a show or just get tipsy in a bar.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: Within London I would also recommend the Imperial War, Natural History and Science Museums.
Very good, but unbearably busy, especially in August, hours to get in and full of other people's kids - the most revolting species on the planet.
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If you're up for travelling that far to see a stone circle I'd avoid Stonehenge and go to Avebury instead followed possibly by Kennet Long Barrow and of course the mandatory five minutes at the bottom of Silbury Hill going "Why?" like all of us did on our school trips!
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Walking the South Bank [^]
If you're going to Westminster/The Eye, then this is a nice follow on.
Enjoy: plenty of other good suggestions posted as well.
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Ah.
Dalek Dave is back then... 
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Classy, as always. 
cheers
Chris Maunder
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