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[labellementeuse]

So, I'm officially going to England. My flights are booked. I'm leaving on the 12th of June. I'm getting back on the 10th of July. I'm presenting a paper (!!!!) in Bristol on the 3rd to the 5th. I've also gotta go to France at some point to see Clara. Other than that... I'm at a loose end. (If you're wondering, I'm going for a month because there's just no point in flying for thirty hours to get somewhere for a week and a half. of course, this means I have to have my research essay finished in two and a half months (!!!!!!!!!) and sit my exam for Children's Lit in study break, but I talked to Anna about that and it's fine, so.)

ANYWAY. The point of this post is: will YOU be in England during this time? Wanna hang out? (Wanna give me free accomodation? j/k.) I will be flying into London, obvs, and the conference is in Bristol. Where else should I go? BE EXCITED WITH ME.

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[blademistress.livejournal.com]

You can totally go to nakedbus and things like Nationalexpress and if you get in reasonably early (I booked around now for about the same time) you can get things like 1 pound bus trips to places. I got to Bath on a pound and it was awesome. Just to offer an alternative point of view on Cardiff, it's not hugely big, doesn't have much to do other than a Castle (which is totally awesome and you must see it) and smells like pee. I wouldn't recommend more than a night or two there. The hostels are also kinda crazily expensive in comparison to like everywhere else.

Bristol is also like less than an hour from Bath, which in turn is a little while from stone henge (apparently don't do the festival thing there it's all drunken idiots?) The British Museum is amazing, and the science museum is too (they have the particle accelerator Rutherford used! I may have geeked out, like, a lot) and right next to it is the Natural History museum which has a whole blue whale. I was slightly resentful at the idea of giving Westminster Abbey my money but omg the history. The free audiotour is really excellent and as a total history nerd there was a lot of omg Elizabeth I! William Cecil! Charles Darwin's burial!

I stayed at about 3 different hostels there so if you want I could find which ones they were and whether to avoid.

[amarynth.livejournal.com]

I can't agree on Cardiff, but the British Museum is probably the best thing in the entire country. Although speaking as a history nerd, I find all the Elizabeth I stuff tedious as hell.

[blademistress.livejournal.com]

I felt that Cardiff was a living breathing example of a failing in local council. When prostitutes and girls pee in the gutter it means you need more public rest rooms. But then maybe my Welsh hating English father has influenced me somewhat in this regard.

I loved the British Museum so much. First you get to look at stuff, and then you get to look at the tags that specifically don't mention how they acquired it. I think I could probably try very hard to live there.

My favourite was probably the spot where they buried Oliver Cromwell and then dug him up from. Heh.

[amarynth.livejournal.com]

I've got to be honest with you, I never saw that side of Cardiff, although it has been a long time so perhaps things have got worse than then. Although I think I was equally predisposed to dislike Cardiff - I flatted with a group of Swansea-siders for over a year and their attitude to Cardiff was pretty negative.

Yea that side of the Museum did occur to me - it's as much a testament to imperialism as it is love of knowledge. Still, I suppose it's better to steal people's big stone monuments and ancient artifacts than their lives.