the other book review

Hooray.…my vaca­tion is a few days away and not a moment too soon.
As of Sun­day I will be mak­ing the British roads and camp­ing sites unsafe with my presence.

First order of (mon­key) busi­ness: doing my adop­tive par­ent thing and visit Sally. I’m her par­ent now for four years, but I’ve never seen her in real life. Finally it’s happening!

After being a few days on the South coast I’m head­ing up to Wales, but not with­out vis­it­ing Bath. Here is where the lit­er­ary part of the vaca­tion begins. Most of Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey takes place in Bath and I’m deter­mined to fol­low in the foot­steps of Cather­ine Mor­land, the main char­ac­ter. Jane Austen her­self lived in Bath a short while and I’m look­ing for­ward to vis­it­ing the cen­tre.
Then, hav­ing arrived in Wales, I’m going to visit Hay-on-Wye (Welsh: Y Gelli), a lit­tle town with a pop­u­la­tion of 1500, but with approx­i­mately thirty (yes people…30!) major book­shops. That’s par­adise for ya! I hope I will not be com­ing back with a whole new library.

After those days in heaven, I’m not sure what I will do and see next, that part of the vaca­tion is not planned yet. But who cares any­way, the lit­tle lit­er­ary nerd inside of me whis­pers to me.

So, that was the pre­view of my vaca­tion and I hope I have the time and I’m not to lazy to update my adven­tures dur­ing the trip.

Now I’m going to have a cup of tea!

All the (fol­low­ing) posts can be read together on the page Lit­er­ary vaca­tion.

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