Hi. If you've always wanted to visit England, dreamed about it, devoured books about the country and its history, doted on movies filmed there, then four weeks will be perfect.

I'm topping this primarily because I think the forum elders, who feel so put upon by headings such as this, need to relax. For goodness sake. Peace. J.

Yes, it is always a bad thing to try to help a newbie in understanding and improving the way a website works! Unforgiveable! And for heavens sake we should always support the idea of doing things the least effective way and even encourage people to continue doing so. Efforts to follow rules of a website should especially be ignored! Thanks for your support of these ideas, jmw.

Incidentally, kudos to soulfulms, who did take the suggestions to heart, did repost with a better title and has gotten a ton of useful information there. Obviously there are some people who do want to learn how to do it better, rather than just complain about people who try to help out.

Why am I picturing someone kicking every good samaritan who tries to help an old lady or blind person across the street, telling them, "just relax; let them do it their way"?

Having been lucky enough to have spent several years in the UK, I can assure that four weeks is not too much time.

Many Brits spend their entire lives there, gaining an excruciatingly detailed knowledge of their neighborhoods.

The other destinations may have equal or greater rewards. Only you can decide.

There's room at this forum for folks of different opinions. Thanks for your response, Neopolitan; no hard feelings. J.