Initially, we were planning to catch trains around the country, but when we discovered the insanely high prices of cross-country travel, renting a car seemed the best option. And it delivered on value a hundred fold!
Here's our little car!
After four brilliant days in London, we drove to Liverpool, and got to see so many sites and little corners of England that we would never have seem otherwise.
Before we even left London, we visited St. John's Wood to see Paul McCartney's London home, as well as write on the walls of Abbey Road Studios and be total tourists by crossing that famous pedestrian crossing.
We hadn't expected to see much but Motorways, so when we began to find little nuggets of interesting places, it became one of the most memorable days of the entire holiday.
Sorry for the blurry photo of Birmingham above - we didn't actually stop in the city itself but rather drove through on a quick sight-seeing tour.
It was on this first road trip that we were able to see an English sunset, since until this fifth day in England, as the sun sets near 4pm, we'd always been inside at the time of the sunset, only to emerge once night had well and truly fallen.
By far my favourite stop-over on this drive to Liverpool was in the pottery-town of Stoke-on-Trent. I was very happy to find that an antique thimble I bought in Plymouth later on was made in this town! It was gorgeous, and we walked through some of the streets before it started to get late and we began to get hungry...
... which is of course when we bought some Gooeys! I was obsessed by these biscuits and over the trip we tried other flavours but nothing beat the Hazelnut flavour pictured above!
All the places I've mentioned so far were those that we saw on that first day of driving, but after leaving our car at Liverpool Lime St Station, we eventually picked it up again four days later and used the car for the rest of the trip.
It allowed us to see so much, and go so many places:
We ventured out of Liverpool centre of the John Lennon Airport... and Speke!
...and we can't forget the opportunity to visit Stonehenge twice because the first time it rained so much we couldn't get many good photos, and the second time the rain held out until we reached the carpark again...
...we visited so many gorgeous little villages and hamlets, including Salisbury, Kingshead, Dartmouth, Bath and Axminster, and were able to deviate from our planned itinerary and choose to go to Cardiff, Bristol, Plymouth and Oxford...
Driving around England was a magical experience and one that I treasure above all else on the trip (although driving on those tiny hedged-in 'B' roads in the night was a little thrilling for me!)
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