Like most other people, I usually write a list of resolutions for the coming year but I’ve decided to switch it up a bit because I am so tired of restrictive resolutions. I’m scrapping resolutions this year because they don’t work and while I do want to build healthy habits in 2020, I’m not going… Continue reading 2020 Goals
I visited the Lake District in mid-November and even though it was late autumn, I decided to visit the beach! Silecroft Beach, a lovely stretch of English coastline, sits in the shadow of Black Combe, right on the edge of the Lake District National Park. Silecroft is a shingle and sand beach, scattered with seaweed at… Continue reading Visiting the Lake District: Silecroft Beach
I’m taking a bit of a detour from bookish posts today to talk about one of the things I did when I was in the Lake District. I knew that I wanted to go fell-walking when I visited and, luckily, the cottage I stayed in was actually at the foot of a fell. It’s not… Continue reading Visiting the Lake District: Black Combe
England’s largest national park, the Lake District, is well-known for its literary influence. It has inspired the works of William Wordsworth, John Keats, Beatrix Potter, and so many other writers. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, famous poet and occasional Shakespeare scholar, spent some time there taking laudanum and getting lost in the mountains in the early nineteenth century.… Continue reading Literary Locations: Five Literary Things to do in the Lake District
November is almost over and Christmas is in sight. There are also less than two weeks before the UK goes to the polls (again) and I really don’t want November to end. November has been a fantastic month. I spent a week in the Lake District and I loved every second of my time there.… Continue reading #MonthlyWrapUp: November 2019 (+ November Favourites)
Haworth, located in the West Yorkshire region of the UK, was the home of the literary Brontë family and I visited a few weeks ago! I don’t live far away from Haworth but this is the first time I have visited and I loved it. I didn’t actually have any plans when I decided to… Continue reading Visiting Haworth, UK
Recently, I spent a few days in London and I wanted to write a quick post about some of the things I did while I was there. The British Library The British Library was my first stop after arriving in London. I had to get a Readers Pass while I was in London so I… Continue reading Visiting London, UK
I don’t have much money to go travelling this year thanks to many different reasons so all of these places are in the UK because I don’t have any plans to travel overseas in 2019. I would like to visit all of them in 2019 but I’m going to aim for at least three of… Continue reading Literary Locations I Want to Visit in 2019
This is the second part of my list of literary locations I’d like to visit. Who knows how many parts this series will have but hopefully, one day, I’ll be able to write posts about the places I’ve been to! Okay, on to the next five places on my travel wishlist/bucket list. London, England I’ve… Continue reading Literary Locations: Places I Want to Visit (Part 2)
There are so many literary locations that I’d like to visit one day. This is just part one of an extensive list of places I want to go to. Rome, Italy I have been to Rome in the past but I never visited the Keats-Shelley House even though I wanted to. I know that I’d… Continue reading Literary Locations: Places I Want to Visit (Part 1)
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