After its expedition, sailors used the ship to cruise the globe before it became a research vessel and was used for training young Sea Scouts for decades. It’s now defrosted and moored in Dundee at the Discovery Point museum where visitors can climb aboard to learn about its fascinating history. The legendary RRS Discovery is the three-masted barque used by Captain Scott to reach Antarctica in 1902, which remained there, frozen into the ice, until 1904.
uk The RRS Discovery in Dundee (Alamy) 10. Make a weekend of it at the smart Georgian red-brick Winstanley House hotel, with live music on the terrace and sleek rooms with marble bathrooms. Celeb-narrated shows in the UK’s largest domed planetarium and brilliant interactive exhibits teach everything from satellite technology to the possibility of alien life. There’s a risk your quota of homemade toilet-roll rockets will increase after a day trip to the National Space Centre, but the chance to show your budding astronaut some real ones, alongside space suits, moon rock and meteorites, is well worth it. See more A moon landing - in Leicestershire (Alamy) 9. Swap zips for zzzs at the Royal Oak Hotel in Betws-y-Coed, a former coaching inn where rooms have four-poster beds and slipper baths.
Bounce Below is one of four activities at the Zip World site, along with a cavern ropes course, outdoor zip lining and a deep mine tour. In a former Victorian slate mine near Blaenau Ffestiniog in Snowdonia, you’ll find a vast cavern filled with bouncy trampoline nets, fast slides the height of two double-decker buses and tunnels in a colourfully illuminated play space for over sevens. If you click and buy a product, we may earn revenue.īounce Below at Zip World 1. These buttons and adverts are clearly signposted, and provide direct links through to external sites. We also feature properties and itineraries from a specially selected list of trusted operators. Our travel journalism is written and edited by independent experts to inform, inspire and advise our readers about the best choices for your holidays.
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