Our last day in England was one to remember: we returned to the village of Haworth, home of the Bronte sisters. We took a 5-mile hike out into the moors that the sisters would have done daily (in long dresses, no less!). Our guide, Martin, read us Emily Bronte’s poetry about the moors as...
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Literary England: York and Haworth, Home of the Bronte Sisters
Today we ended our brief sojourn across the Scottish border and got back into the English countryside. We traveled from the extreme northwest of England to the northeast and then down to Yorkshire. We spent part of the day in York, home to the breathtaking Yorkminster Abbey. We toured windy and narrow medieval streets,...
Continue reading‘And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.’
On Wednesday we traveled north to the absolutely breathtaking Lake District. Once we saw the landscape we understood why it inspired the Romantic poets and caused Pride and Prejudice‘s Lizzy Bennet to exclaim, “What are men to rocks and mountains!” We took a rainy but gorgeous hike above the village of Grasmere and visited...
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Stratford-on-Avon: An Afternoon With the Bard
On Tuesday we left London behind and made a two-and-a-half hour drive to Shakespeare’s birth (and death) place, Stratford-on-Avon. We stopped first at his wife, Anne Hathaway’s beautifully preserved cottage and gardens. Once in town we broke for lunch and then toured the home where Shakespeare was...
Continue readingAnd so to Canterbury …
On Monday we made our pilgrimage to Canterbury, like Chaucer’s 14th-century characters. We toured the cathedral and grabbed lunch in town. We later returned to London for dinner and then headed back for our last night in the hotel....
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Literary Adventures in Bath & Stonehenge
Day three is coming to a close and we’re heading back to the hotel from dinner and a walk in central London. Today we headed out to Bath, with a stop at Stonehenge on the way. Bath was beautiful and we had a quick lunch of Cornish pasties and then toured the Roman baths....
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Experiencing London From Austen to BreXit
It’s the end of day 2 in London, and we’ve been so busy it’s our first post! Here’s a recap: After an overnight flight, we arrived at Heathrow on Friday morning and settled in to our hotel, which is about a half hour train ride outside of the city center in London. We headed...
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