Honeymoon!

[catherineldf]

I just booked our honeymoon, finally. We've been wanting to take a trip to the UK for several years now but either our personal economy collapses or the global one does and it just hasn't worked out. But finally, finally we're set, seeing as work's good with me being away for a bit and Jana's teaching at the U. next semester.
The plan thus far (subject to all kinds of wacky changes):
we fly into London and hop on the bus to Bath on March 12 (yes, we know it will be cold. But warmer than Minnesota).
We spend a couple of days running around Bath and the vicinity. So the Fashion Museum, the Jane Austen Center, the Assembly Rooms, the Baths themselves, a bookbinder's shop, the paper mill at Wookey Hole, etc.
From there, it's on to Hay-on-Wye in lovely Wales. Hay-on-Wye's main tourist industry is bookstores. Used books, new books, rare books, all kinds of books on all kinds of topics. We aim to misbehave in a "We so don't have room/money for this but we must have it" sort of way. :-D
We leave Hay-on-Wye for Hereford to check out the Chained Library and sundry other things of Jana interest.
Then we may be going to Oxford to check out, well, the chained libraries and all the general thrills of the place.
On to London from whence we shall make a side trip to Chawton, home of Jane Austen and Chawton House Library which focuses on English women's writing from 1600 to 1830 and houses work by Austen, Aphra Behn, Mary Shelley, Ann Radcliffe and dozens of others. I'm in geek heaven just thinking about it.
Then probably a day bopping around London. We cut it down to a day because we've both been there before and we wanted to see new things. Hopefully we'll also get to meet up with some of the folks we know there, too.
I'm very, very excited!

Comments

[skogkatt.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that sounds so cool! I have been to the UK, but never to Bath. Persuasion is my favorite Austen novel, and I'm lazily re-reading Northanger Abbey right now, so Bath is pretty prominent in my mind. I hope you have an excellent trip!

[aitchellsee.livejournal.com]

Oh, the paper mill at Wookey Hole. I loved that place as much as I was freaked out by the caverns at W.H. (I like caves in books, who knew the reality would be so...disquieting?) Anyway, I came away with a bunch of beautiful expensive paper that I used for a project I was doing (can it really be almost twenty years ago?).

The projected itinerary sounds wonderful. Have a marvelous honeymoon with many many unforgettable memories!

Harriet

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[traceyshellito.livejournal.com]

If you absolutely have to do London, go to the Natural History museum it's really the onlky thing worth going there for.

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[traceyshellito.livejournal.com]

If you absolutely have to do London, go to the Natural History museum it's really the only thing worth going there for.

[lee-martindale.livejournal.com]

Drooooool.

w00t!

[evilroygato.livejournal.com]

Yes! I'm so glad you guys get to go! Take lots of pictures!!

[catherineldf.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :-D
"Persuasion" is my favorite too, though I'll always have a soft spot for P&P.

[catherineldf.livejournal.com]

Oh cool! Jana's been twisting my arm about going to that one. I suspect I'll end up going though the Bath sites are speaking louder to me.

Re: London

[catherineldf.livejournal.com]

We're art museum kind of gals so I suspect we'll end up at one or more of those but I'll keep this in mind too. Where are you at, geographically speaking? Guessing not London. :-)

[catherineldf.livejournal.com]

I promise to harangue you about it at A-Kon. :-D

Re: w00t!

[catherineldf.livejournal.com]

Better yet, I'll have her take pix. they tend to be better. :-D

Re: London

[traceyshellito.livejournal.com]

My family come from the south of England but these days I'm living in the north, closer to Manchester and Liverpool, geographically. But I remember when London had a heart and wasn't just a commercial hell hole; where asking for directions got you a friendly answer instead of the brush off and walking around late at night didn't get you mugged by a homeless junkie or knifed by the Yardies. Wipe the glitter from your eyes, Cat. It's not a pleasant place any more. Be careful out there.