Family Holidays Ideas for UK Visitors

Williamsburg Virginia offers a great opportunity to combine educational fun, visiting Colonial Williamsburg, plus just-plain-fun at the nearby Busch Gardens Europe theme park (rides, shows, etc.), and Water Country USA giant waterpark (open in summertime).

History comes to life in Colonial Williamsburg: actors and volunteers portray people from 230-odd years ago, bringing to life the 1770's just before the American Revolution.

You can watch blacksmiths, saddlemakers, wigmakers, silversmiths; you can ride in horse-drawn carriages, talk to inn-keepers, and hear daring patriots whisper about revolution-- such is the atmosphere, in Colonial Williamsburg, which has an extensive area of fully restored buildings as the backdrop to the "living history" experience.

Granted, experiencing this charged moment of history from the British perspective may be... interesting; but it should certainly make history lessons at shcool more interesting, as well as providing a memorable holiday. Yorktown and other historical areas can be easily visited on the same trip.

• Read about visiting Colonial Williamsburg

^{*photo courtesy of Colonial Williamsburg site}