{"id":16327,"date":"2010-06-10T13:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T13:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/five-day-trips-from-london-england\/"},"modified":"2018-08-16T12:56:10","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T12:56:10","slug":"five-day-trips-from-london-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/five-day-trips-from-london-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Day Trips From London, England"},"content":{"rendered":"

We recently gave you our suggestions for Five Day Trips from Paris, so now we thought we\u2019d turn our attention to London. Of course, you can never spend enough time in the capital itself, but when the Big Smoke gets a bit, well, smoky, here\u2019s where to retreat to.<\/p>\n

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Oxford <\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Oxford,<\/div>\n

We mentioned Oxford yesterday as one of our top university towns, and its location is pretty handy \u2013 only an hour away from Paddington by train, or there are coach services that leave from Victoria every 15 minutes (the coach journey can take about two hours). Wander round the colleges, and take a tour of the Bodleian Library \u2013 one of the oldest in Europe, dating from medieval times. Make sure you take a tour that includes a visit to the bookstacks underneath the Radcliffe Camera (pictured) \u2013 it\u2019s fascinating.<\/p>\n

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Cambridge<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Cambridge,<\/div>\n

You don\u2019t have to choose between Oxford or Cambridge for a daytrip \u2013 although they\u2019re both university towns, they\u2019re different enough to make a day out in both enjoyable. Cambridge is much quieter than Oxford \u2013 the river Cam runs along the \u201cBacks\u201d \u2013 literally the backs of the colleges \u2013 and the gardens, on the other side, are enchanting. If you\u2019re going to try punting, Cambridge is the place to do it. Like Oxford, it\u2019s just over an hour\u2019s train ride from King\u2019s Cross.<\/p>\n

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Brighton<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Brighton,<\/div>\n

Every Londoner\u2019s favorite daytrip \u2013 as you\u2019ll be able to tell by the crammed beach on a sunny weekend \u2013 Brighton is well worth the hour-long train ride (from Victoria<\/a>). The beach is pebbly (so don\u2019t expect any golden sand here) but there\u2019s plenty to do as well as sunbathe \u2013 check out the pier, go shopping in the quirky North Laines district, and, most importantly, pub crawl \u2013 Brighton has some of the friendliest and most traditional watering hotels in the south. It also has a thriving gay community, so should you be inclined, you may want to stay the night.<\/p>\n

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New Forest<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Hop on a train at Waterloo, and just 90 minutes later you\u2019ll be in a totally different world, getting off at Ashurst, on the edge of the New Forest \u2013 just west of Southampton. Forest is the word \u2013 it\u2019s actually the largest remaining area of unenclosed pasture, heathland and forest in the south of England. It was established in 1079 by William I, no less, as a place to hunt deer, and it remains populated by animals \u2013 not just deer now, but cutesy mini New Forest Ponies. Hire a bike and spend a day in the England of old.<\/p>\n

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Whitstable<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Whitstable,<\/div>\n

Kent, east of London, is known as \u201cthe garden of England\u201d but pretty seaside village Whitstable must be the harbor. It\u2019s most famous for its oysters \u2013 and has been since Roman times. Nowadays, there\u2019s an annual oyster festival, which takes place in the last week of July, but you can buy the blighters throughout the year. Buy them at the harbor side and enjoy them \u2013 although you won\u2019t want to get frisky on the train ride back to London (the journey takes 90 minutes, either from Victoria or St Pancras).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We recently gave you our suggestions for Five Day Trips from Paris, so now we thought we\u2019d turn our attention to London. Of course, you can never spend enough time in the capital itself, but when the Big Smoke gets a bit, well, smoky, here\u2019s where to retreat to.   Oxford We mentioned Oxford yesterday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16327"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97199327,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16327\/revisions\/97199327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}