where are any interesting and possibly un-heard of travel destinations in the UK, Ireland, and Amsterdam?

Question

i will be traveling to england, scotland, ireland, and amsterdam on vacation and i am trying to plan the things im going to do. any small towns or places that you have been to and enjoyed are welcome.

Answer 1

I think it's very difficult to find 'an interesting and possibly unheard of travel destination', as you put it, since the former usually brings on the latter, and people tend to frequent a place if it holds any interest or peculiarity. On a more personal level, I've been to many in the countries that you plan on visiting, but maybe they were curiously attractive to me and wouldn't be so to you. That's the problem with offbeat places; the really touristy ones are easy, either liked or disliked by the majority. In England and Scotland especially, there are so many interesting smaller places. I liked Bognor Regis, a once popular middle-class resort on La Manche, but I have friends there who own a small hotel on the promenade and this allowed me to take early morning walks and enjoy the sea all to myself... You may find it ordinary or uninteresting, who knows? Or Haworth, where I spent the whole day at the Parsonage Museum, the moors and later, back to the main street, had the best apple pie with vanilla ice-cream ever!

If you are interested in less popular places, maybe you could have a look at the Hidden Europe magazine, which inspires people to visit such places. I cannot recommend it enough:
http://www.hiddeneurope.co.uk

Answer 2

You can go to almost every town in Ireland, Scotland, England and the Netherlands.

Some great (mostly small) places I have been are:
Galway, Donegal, the Dingle peninsula, and Dublin in Ireland.
Inverness in Scotland, I have not been in Edinburgh yet but hear good things about it.

England, I just pick a few, North to South:
Newcastle upon Tyne, Windermere, Chester, Cambridge, London, Bath, Penzance.

And if you have time also go into Wales:
Conwy, Aberystwith, Cardiff.

And when you go to Amsterdam spend some time in town, depending on your tastes half a day to a week, but do also travel on, no places really of the beaten track, as the Dutch have holidays in every odd place in their own country:
For the beach: Zandvoort, Katwijk or Scheveningen.
Smaller typical Dutch towns:
Alkmaar, Delft, Leiden, Utrecht.
Openair Museums:
Enkhuizen, Arnhem, Alphen aan de Rijn (themepark Archeon, buildings from stone age though to 1500's.)
Modern architecture:
Rotterdam, Almere, Lelystad.
Villages in a nature setting:
Otterloo (also a good museum with a lot of van Gogh paintings,) Ommen, Gulpen.
Some places that are sure hits with tourists, (overcrowded in the high season):
Zaanse schans, Volendam, Marken.

Answer 3

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