| The British bed and breakfast holiday is | | | | grotty areas, for the most part the UK holiday |
| experiencing a comeback. There is so much to | | | | has improved beyond all recognition and has |
| see in the UK, and it can be done on a budget. | | | | practically reinvented itself. It is now relatively |
| With families working long hours to pay ever | | | | easy to find good accommodation throughout the |
| increasing bills, many are forgetting family time | | | | whole of the UK, both self-catering and in catered |
| together. Sometimes a change of scene is as | | | | premises such as seaside guest houses in |
| good as a rest, and it is how you spend that time | | | | Blackpool or Scarborough, old coaching inns along |
| as a family that counts. | | | | the ancient Roman roads and Birmingham, |
| Fear had been expressed in some quarters of the | | | | Manchester or Leicester bed and breakfast |
| domestic tourist industry that many British | | | | establishments. |
| holidaymakers, faced with the reality that | | | | Holidaying in the UK needs a bit of preparation as |
| Continental holidays were too expensive last | | | | obviously we can't rely on the weather, so we |
| summer following the economic crisis, would | | | | need to think of what we can 'do' rather than |
| decide not to take any sort of vacation at all. It | | | | where can we 'be'. British holidaymakers are |
| is, unfortunately, true that some British | | | | discovering many tourist attractions to visit |
| holidaymakers would never dream of choosing to | | | | whatever the weather, often forgotten gems |
| take their main holiday at home, believing a UK | | | | which are now becoming revived. Along with the |
| holiday to be "uncool". After the meteoric rise of | | | | more famous attractions, such as the Tower of |
| the Mediterranean package holiday in the Sixties | | | | London, Blackpool Pleasure Beach or |
| and Seventies, the general assumption was that | | | | Shakespeare's birthplace, there are many other |
| nobody in their right mind would take their main | | | | interesting and fun places to visit in the country. If |
| holiday in the UK if they could afford to go | | | | you holiday in the Lake District, you could visit the |
| abroad. | | | | Beatrix Potter Museum or Wordsworth's Cottage. |
| At the time, it has to be said, there were good | | | | If you are staying in York, you can visit the |
| reasons for such an assumption. For the most | | | | beautiful Yorkshire Dales, as well as visit York |
| part, UK holidays could be pretty awful: grotty | | | | Minster and the medieval thoroughfare known as |
| caravan parks, muddy campsites with barely the | | | | the Shambles. Staying in a Leicester bed and |
| most basic of amenities, fearsome seaside guest | | | | breakfast would be an excellent base to see the |
| houses or bed and breakfasts and the even more | | | | many attractions in the East Midlands, such as |
| fearsome seaside landladies. Our main seaside | | | | Sherwood Forest, the National Space Centre and |
| resorts, starved of serious investment, had | | | | the Church of St Mary de Castro, where Chaucer |
| become shabby depressing places, faded shadows | | | | was married. Or you could stay in beautiful north |
| of their former selves. | | | | Devon, quieter than its Cornish neighbour and |
| Much has changed since those days, however, | | | | offering much to holiday-makers, being a real gem |
| and today the "staycation" has become cool. | | | | of the South West that is often overlooked. |
| Whilst it has to be admitted that there are still | | | | |