Reply #3: That's when I was there last myself

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My mom and I went. We spent three weeks short 1 day there, and did it relatively inexpensively. I think I calculated it out to be about $4600 for the both of us, for that whole time. That was ALL expenses. We stayed in B&Bs most of the time, though one city we stayed in a hostel, and in London, we stayed at a small okay hotel which wasn't fancy at all. We had a Britrail pass for each of us for pretty much the whole time, and we spent a couple of days even in Ireland. Wide tour: London, Nottingham, Edinburgh, Inverness, Glasgow, Windermere, Dun Laoghaire, Cheltenham, Salisbury and then back to London before going home. It was a bit of a hectic schedule, but it wasn't bad overall. We got to see a lot, though not as much as we would have liked. A couple of places we didn't get to that I wanted to: Culloden Moor, Stonehenge, Avebury, Bath, Blackpool, Glastonbury Tor, Oxford--but overall, we saw as much as you can with the time we had and the budget we were on.

The one regret I had was carrying too much luggage. I will never do that again. Between maps, guide books, brochures from various places, plus my own miscellaneous encumbrances, we were exhausted from carrying all that crap. Next time, it's a small camera, one small notebook, and copies of brochure pages I can toss before traveling.