Overview
The United Kingdom rewards travellers who keep moving. London is the obvious opening and the least representative stop: an hour or two by train buys you Edinburgh, the Welsh coast, the Peak District or a cathedral city, and each one reads as a different country.
1 United Kingdom city guide
Fun fact
One number worth knowing
British stamps carry no country name. The Universal Postal Union exempted Great Britain in 1874 because it had issued the world’s first adhesive stamp, the Penny Black, in 1840, on condition the reigning monarch’s head serves as the mark of origin.