UK Top 10: Best Cities, Castles, Museums and Day Trips

In episode 206 of the UK Travel Planning Podcast, Tracy and Doug go head to head on ten categories: favourite city, best day trip, most memorable train journey, top castle, favourite museum and more.

These are the questions they get asked all the time, with answers they hadn’t shared with each other until the recording started.

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What you’ll learn in this episode

• Why Doug chooses York as his favourite UK city outside London, and why Tracy makes the case for Edinburgh
• The best day trips from London, including a strong recommendation for Bath and the Stonehenge, Bath and Secret Place tour with the English Bus
• Doug’s favourite train journey in the UK: the Settle-Carlisle line through Yorkshire and into Cumbria
• Why Tracy’s favourite train journey is the Caledonian Sleeper, and which direction makes it special
• British foods worth seeking out, including Fortnum and Mason Scotch eggs, haggis neeps and tatties, and a Victoria sponge done properly
• Favourite churches and cathedrals across the UK: Salisbury, Canterbury and Tracy’s pick, Winchester Cathedral
• The best castles in the UK, from the Tower of London to Caernarfon and Conwy in Wales and the castles of Northumberland
• Standout wildlife and landscape moments, including puffins on Lunga, a golden eagle encounter in the Highlands, the Isle of Harris and Glen Coe
• Doug’s favourite museum (the National Railway Museum in York) and Tracy’s (the V&A in London)
• The best season to visit the UK: Doug votes spring, Tracy votes autumn
• If you could only take a first-time visitor to one place: Doug chooses Chatsworth House in the Peak District, Tracy chooses the Cotswolds