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Honeymoon!
Dec. 9th, 2009 08:46 pmI 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!
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!