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Just read Roseattack's piece on Gleneagles, and would definitely want to add an experience like that into my camper-van trip round scotland!

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I fancy trying the Isle of Man. It's always seemed a bit "bucket and spade" in the past, but expensive to get to if you're taking kids - so I've never been.
But now I've no longer got any "bucket and spade" kids, and Sangreya's recent postings have shown a more wacky, off-the-beaten-track, appealing side to the island.
Islands fascinate me anyway and the Isle of Man is almost like another country with it's own parliament, culture and language - in fact I'm not even sure if it's technically part of the UK, or maybe it's in the UK but not part of Great Britain. 

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There is a story that on the eighth day of the Christian Creation myth their God dropped great jewels in the water off the west coast of Scotland.

My own view is that they are an entirely natural phenomenon, but they are no less beautiful for that.

So, top of my list would be somewhere on the Hebrides. I love Coll, for example, but there are many I've yet to visit. It would have to be somewhere that there are not too many humans.

Glen Affric is nice. I still want to visit many of the outer Orkney Islands.  There are lots of options.

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Sorry, Steve. The Isle of Man is a Crown Dependency, which is explicitly *not* part of the UK.

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I am lucky enough for it not to be my only holiday, but my wife and I are holidaying in the UK later this year, driving from our home in Hampshire to Caithness and back.
The first and last nights will be spent with friends near Appleby and in Sheffield, although we have not yet decided which one when.  From Appleby we intend to visit Townend near Windermere.
Next will be four days in a farm b&b on a farm in Dumfriesshire which my ancestors farmed for most of the 1700s, getting to know the area, looking at the various family homes, walking the hills (if the weather is kind) and perhaps visiting some local archives (if it isn't).  After that we spend a few days in central Scotland, including a visit or two to a nonagenarian family friend in Callander (I have mentioned him before in "Experiences").  Then four nights in Wick investigating the area around the Caithness fishing village from which my wife's great grandfather moved southwards 150 years ago.  We will end the Scottish leg with a visit to friends in Aberdeenshire to see the house they are having built there.
This may not be quite the trip we would organise if we were visiting Britain as foreign tourists, but we aren't.  It is home territory and comes with a wealth of cultural baggage and connections which will - we hope - make for a memorable excursion.

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Given that Jersey isn't either, perhaps we can allow Steve the Isle of Man. Then I can get the Falklands. If not, Suffolk.

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I'll amend my question to "British Isles" rather than the UK, which broadens the area out to:

• United Kingdom (Sovereign State)
• Ireland (Sovereign State)
• Jersey (British Crown Dependency)
• Isle of Man (British Crown Dependency)
• Guernsey (British Crown Dependency)
• Alderney (British Crown Dependency)
• Sark (British Crown Dependency)

So the Falklands are out, but the Isle of Man is in.

My definition also includes the thousand or so islands and rocks around the archipelago of the British Isles (that includes all the rocks and islands that make up the Channel Islands too). 

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Ireland is an island off the north west of continental Europe.

The Republic of Ireland is a sovereign state.

People from the Republic of Ireland would not generally use the term "British Isles", and the term has been avoided in parliamentary debate and treaty on both sides of the Irish Sea (I had this explained to me in no uncertain terms in Bewley's in Grafton Street last summer...).

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I stand corrected, you are right Niall, I should have written The Republic of Ireland.

Oxford Dictionary definition of British Isles: "a group of islands lying off the coast of NW Europe, from which they are separated by the North Sea and the English Channel. They include Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Hebrides, the Orkney Islands, the Shetland Islands, the Scilly Isles, and the Channel Islands." And for the purposes of this question all the rocks and smaller islands not actually listed by the Oxford University Press in this area.

Please can we leave it at that and get back to the spirit of the question?

If anyone has any ideas about where they'd like to go I'd love to hear them

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Cracking question Liz! I'd really like to go to Skomer Island, or as it's been called in our house for about the last eight years ' We Really Must Go To Skomer Island', failing that, a seal diving trip later in the year would do nicely!

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Great question Liz, I'd love to spend more time in the Lake District, it is such a beautiful place, hopefully we will get to go next year...!

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I've never been to the South West and would love to head down to Devon and Cornwall, Dartmoor, Cheddar, all that part of the country. Maybe stopping in the Cotswolds, again never visited, for a cream tea or two on the way.......

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