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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?

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[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.