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First time in the UK? How to plan a trip that actually works

Overhead view of a wooden table by a window with a folded map of Britain, handwritten UK trip notes in an open notebook, train tickets, an Oyster card, a guidebook, and a mug of tea as a hand marks out a first-time UK travel route.

A first trip to the UK can look wonderfully simple in the imagination and slightly less simple once flights, trains, regions, hotels and ambitious ideas …

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