Hi,

in a couple of weeks we are travelling to England for a couple of weeks of well-deserved vacation.

We are travelling from Hendaye to London on a Monday, and the following day we will get on a train to Salisbury to stay there for three days.

The only thing I am not very sure is the train station to get to Salisbury. I thought it was Waterloo, but then I have read "Waterloo East".

Is there a difference between the stations? Are they located together?

Thank you very much, and kind regards,

Covadonga

It's Waterloo itself you want.

The train takes about an hour and a half. Salisbury is lovely, you've made a goood choice.

Waterloo east is, if i remember correctly, adjacent to the main Waterloo station, The trains normally head off in the direction of Kent.

As Stated earlier, trains to Salisbury depart from the main Waterloo station.

Salisbury cathedral is probably my favourite of all those I have visited. If you don't suffer from Vertigo , you can climb to the top of the Spire (Certains times of the day only). I believe that at one time it was the tallest building in Europe.

Enjoy your trip

Thank you very much !

I knew it couldn´t be so far away, but just in case ...

We will certainly enjoy our stay. My mum is recovering from surgery, and although she feels great, we wanted to begin with something relaxing. We have booked a B&B ( Rokeby Guesthouse, reviews in tripadvisor looked fine), and we would like to be able to get to Stonehenge and Avebury, and also Winchester ( Jane Austen and the Carta Magna and Alfred ...). I have read some place that you can walk up to Old Sarum, so that would be nice.

Afterwards we have a week in London (already booked tickets for the Proms and the Mendelssohn violin concert, and for my second "Guys & Dolls", this time with Adam Cooper instead of Ewan McGregor), and we will probably go to Canterbury once more and Brighton, check the Bill Viola exhibition, try to get tickets for "Rock and Roll" ...

And then a weekend in Paris with nothing planned at all, only a stroll in the Viaduct des Arts. I hope the fine weather keeps all the way.

Thanks a lot, again ...

Covadonga

Lucky you! I've always wanted to go to the Proms.

Technically you could walk up to Old Sarum, but it is a considerable walk up a steep hill. buses 3,5 and 9 stop near to the entrance.

Bus 3 also goes onto Stonehenge. Buses 5 and 6 go on to avebury (Although I am not sure how far they stop from the stones)

You can get to Winchester by train from Salisbury, and I cannot recommend Winchester too highly (I am biased - it's my home town - but it's the muttt's nuts)

willit, we are quite used to walk and hiking (one of our favourite vacation spots are the Dolomites, and mum was walking all over the place last week in the Pyrenees, Ordesa, lac d´Ayous, ...). Everything will really depend on the weather, I think. It is good to know that there are public transport options.

Carrybean, it´s not the Last Night of the Proms (I would have loved it, but getting tickets looked complicated and I had to be back in Madrid). I usually check the programs at www.bbc.co.uk/proms as soon as they come up , and then we saw that we could get to that Mendelssohn violin concert, one of mum´s favourites, so I bought the tickets. It wasn´t extremely complicated (mind you, I did it at the end of July), and I feel that the prices, for the players´s quality, are quite good. I am really looking forward to it.

Kind regards, Covadonga

How to get between Salibury, Avebury & Stonehenge

www.wdbus.co.uk/htm/ta/sdo-stonehenge.asp

This is all wonderfully helpful information, as we will be traveling from London to Salisbury late next week. I did try to book train tickets online but ran into a problem in arranging to collect the tickets - the site didn't seem to give me an option to pick up the tickets at Waterloo and it was getting too complicated for me, so I gave up.

cova, did you think about arranging for the inner circle access to Stonehenge? They take a limited number of visitors for an hour before the site opens to the public in the morning, and for an hour after it closes in the evening. You are permitted to go inside the fence and walk among the stones. We are doing that for our visit - it was highly recommended to us.

We also arranged for a Tower Tour at Salisbury Cathedral- I think it's led by the stonemason of the cathedral. I am already in the UK, so don't have the how to's handy, but it was all spelled out online.

If you're Jane Austen fans I'd recommend a trip to Chawton, where she lived from 1809 to 1817 - see here: http://www.hants.gov.uk/austen/chawton.html . It's not super-easy to get to by public transport - the nearest station is Alton, which is the end of a line from London via Farnham and Guildford; your best bet would be to get a bus from Winchester to Alton station, then there's a bit of a walk, or you should be able to get a taxi (I think).