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Think Britain, Think Paull Your Personal Travel Advisor
Issue 312 | 22nd January 2020
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Welcome |
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As 2020 is the Year of The Bookworm, with 17 conversation-starting itineraries on my website, here’s a list of potential sources where your literary contacts may already be customers. Chapters of the American Library Association looking for literary/on location fundraisers; general and specialist bookstores and antiquarian book dealers; teachers and lecturers in English literature at schools, colleges, universities and continuing education colleges; Murder Mystery Book clubs/stores; Reading Circles; Fans of Masterpiece Theatre; North American Dickens Festivals looking for a UK Dickens Festival tour in the spring. These ideas are available for couples, 4 friends travelling together, families and small groups. |
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Enjoying Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox |
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I mentioned the phizz-whizzing Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre in a Britain Insider Column that also includes Alice in Wonderland, Harry Potter, the Wind in the Willows, a dash of Paddington Bear and a West End theatre performance of Matilda. This year is the 50th anniversary of the publishing of ‘Fantastic Mr Fox’. |
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Revisit Brideshead |
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Castle Howard, north of York was the location for the filming of Evelyn Waugh’s seminal novel Brideshead Revisited. Celebrating its 75th anniversary, this masterpiece of 20th century fiction and screen shaped the fashion of the 1980s and transformed its stars into icons. The Brideshead Festival (26th-18th June) features a stellar line up of writers, biographers and leading actors. |
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Celebrating Charles Dickens |
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His birthplace in Portsmouth and the Charles Dickens Museum in London will be marking the 150th anniversary of his death. The annual Dickens Festival (13th-14th June) in Rochester will be jam-packed with street theatre, music, dance performances and roaming characters like Mr Pickwick, Scrooge, Fagin, Miss Havisham, Nancy, Bill Sikes and Bull’s Eye the dog. |
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Discovering Ann Brontë |
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2020 is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Ann Brontë, the youngest of the three famous sisters where a visit to their former home at The Parsonage, a stroll through the picturesque hillside town of Haworth and a ‘Wuthering Heights’ walk across the brooding moorland gives a deeper insight into the talented family’s literary legacy. |
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Experiencing William Wordsworth |
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In this itinerary, the magnificent Cathedrals in Portsmouth, Chichester, Winchester, Salisbury and Guildford come together to form the foundations for an unforgettable travel less, sing more tour of the south of England. It features a rich mix of imaginative private Cathedral tours, memorable locations for Sunday Morning Worship and Choral Evensong and other must-see attractions.
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The Cheltenham Literature Festival |
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With Cunard offering its Literature Festival At Sea cruise in December, let’s talk about 3 days in the Cotswolds at the 2020 festival in Cheltenham 2nd-11th October. First staged 71 years ago, I’ve added side trips to the Shakespeare Houses, a roam around the Cotswolds, the book town of Hay on Wye and a bibliophiles Oxford tour. |
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