United Kingdom in $520s-$530s RT

Stylish Americans will recognize Manchester as home turf for England's biggest soccer team. But it also happens to be a perfectly centralized starting point for a right proper tour of the UK.

Feel like exploring the original urban jungle? London's just a two-hour train ride away.

Hearing the echoing, bagpipey call of the Scottish Highlands? Take a three-hour train ride to Glasgow instead.

Interested in the UK's most underrated nation (you hipster)? Cardiff is three hours away by rail. And then there's the Liverpool-to-Dublin ferry, for a taste of the Emerald Isle...

Point is: you have options. Lots of them. In fact, you might just have to visit more than once :-)