Choose the perfect picnic venue
Location, location, location
Your picnic venue is just as important as the food, don't you think? |
You've come to the right place if you're looking for UK picnic spots. or American recreation areas.
Fresh air sharpens the appetite and makes even the most banal food taste better.
However, sometimes fresh air isn't always "fresh", if you know what I mean! Sometimes it can be clogged up with exhaust fumes and then it's best avoided!
If you're having a picnic en route to somewhere, it only takes a few extra minutes to turn off the main road and find a pretty lane, a wood, field, or a town’s park with an area to picnic in.
A few minutes off your route can turn a simple sandwich and a drink into something much more memorable.
If the picnic is more of an event, then a meadow, park or beach is probably the site you're looking for.
Instead of searching for the perfect daisy meadow or deserted beach in the U.K., you could also head for the grounds of a stately home. They often offer stunning landscapes for your outdoor meal.
Try
The National Trust
or
English Heritage
sites, if you’re in the UK. They offer many ideas.
If you're not in the UK or USA, please suggest somewhere to picnic in your country (or somewhere you've visited) by submitting an idea in the form below, so that we can continue to build lists for other picnickers.
Nature adds so much to the joy of al fresco dining. The flavours mix with the scents, colours and sounds of the outdoors, so that you can create your own little piece of paradise.
I particularly like being on a beach with sand dunes to shelter in – somewhere like Newcastle, Co. Down, which brings back many happy picnic memories. However any clean beach will do and the sun tends to shine more on the beaches I know in Spain!
I love the sound of the sea or ocean and for a
romantic picnic
it’s hard to beat a little deserted cove.Family picnics can also be enjoyed on the sand of course, as they have been for generations. We have been a race of determined picnickers and many a sandy sandwich has been enjoyed on a windswept British beach!
A river-bank makes a great picnic venue too – even better if you can fish and grill your catch over some hot embers! The smell of smoke from a wood fire adds another dimension to an outside meal.
I'd love this site to become a resource for picnic venues all over the world (big ambition I know!) and it would be brilliant if you could help.
So where in the world is YOUR favourite picnic spot?
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Do you know of an unusual, romantic or just practical picnic site in your part of the world - or somewhere you visited? Please share it here for others to enjoy.
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