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[labellementeuse]

So! I'm leaving in two and a half weeks, which is terrifying, but tonight, as I was walking home from work with my big ski jacket on, freezing to death, soaked through in the two minute walk from where I work to where I live - I had a thought. This thought was: So, London? It's in the northern hemisphere. You know the really amazing thing about the northern hemisphere in June/July? It's summer. Summer! I get to spend four days in Bordeaux - in summer! two weeks in london - in summer! A bunch of random days travelling around the country - in summer! OK, it's very late spring/early summer, BUT STILL.

So, I just went back to look at my tell-me-shit-to-do post and I noted that there are a bunch of you who I didn't reply to yet. People who I was going to meet up with - I think this is trialia and gianp - what/when is good for you?

My plan currently is two weeks in London at the beginning of my trip - from the 14th to the 28th. This is my sightseeing/showgoing time. Then I'm bussing to Bristol (I might do this a day or two earlier and bus to Bristol slowly via places) and flying to Bordeaux until the 2nd, then I have a random day and a half in Bristol (lol, inorite) and then conference from the 3rd to the 5th, and then I am basically at a loose end until I fly out again on the 10th. So, basically: for five days I can roadtrip (on, um, buses and trains) around England. I'll probably try to make Stonehenge and Cardiff and Hay in this time. Um. So: given this mad trip state, where should I try to get to? What's to do in Bristol in the random day I'm stuck there?

Also, and this is super important: What should I read on the plane??? Overall that's like, 60 hours of flying. I am going to need a LOT of quality reading material. It has to meet some standards: no books with cliffhangers. Nothing very dense or very light. Nothing depressing. Fiction preferred.

Tips?

Comments

[skadi.livejournal.com]

Oooo ... I'm so jealous. I went to London last summer, and it was the best trip ever. I had so much fun. It's beautiful there! (Also, in July in Chicago, it is humid and awful. In July in London, it's totally comfortable. So June should be good for you, too!)

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

It is the most hideously horrible weather here at the moment so just the idea of going somewhere where it's WARM is like... bliss. :D What was the best thing you did while you were there?

[skadi.livejournal.com]

What was the best thing you did while you were there?

Hmmm ... that's tough. We took a guided tour to Stonehenge, Windsor, and Bath, and that was pretty amazing. I loved Stonehenge so much. It was just beautiful. I got to see a real live Waterhouse at the Tate, so that was super exciting. And the National Gallery was pretty amazing. Ooo! There was the British Library, where I got to see an ancient copy of Beowulf, some early Shakespeare prints, a Gutenberg Bible, the Magna Carta, some Oscar Wilde, some Lewis Carroll, and a lot more.

Ha! This is hard! Maybe I liked the National Gallery best? But it's hard to say. I loved it all so much. We also took a boat ride down the Thames and that was pretty awesome. I liked seeing things from the water.