May 17, 2019 at 10:24 am (Books, destinations, Personal Bookshelf, Recommended, Traveling, Women Writers)
Tags: Cornwall, Fowey, Fridays, Jane Austen, novel, reading lists
Finished Persuasion, on to Northanger Abbey:
It’s been a very stimulating week at the Fowey Festival of Arts and Literature. Hopefully self can do this again.
She bought her copy of Northanger Abbey from Bookends, which is a sweet, sweet corner bookstore in Fowey.
From the Introduction is by P. D. James:
- Catherine’s days are spent in thinking about Henry Tilney, when and how they may next meet, and looking out eagerly for any glimpses of him. She is deeply in love, a love which is reciprocated, though more mildly, by Henry, whose affection is based on her obvious love for him. He introduces her to his sister Eleanor and the two young women immediately like each other and become friends.
Stay tuned.
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May 16, 2019 at 4:49 pm (Conversations, destinations, Holidays, Links, Places, postaday, Traveling, Weather)
Tags: Fridays, memories, Paris
For only her second post participating in Nadia Merrill’s Photo-a-Week Challenge, she has to go back, waaaaay back, to 30 December 2017. She’d just spent one of the loneliest Christmases ever, in Paris. Lo and behold, when it was time for her to leave, she realized she’d come to feel comfortable in Paris (after spending two weeks holed up in a hotel just a few blocks from the Arc de Triomphe, where a very discreet hotel staff never asked her a single personal question, and only interfered with her routine once, when they insisted she go to the Louvre on Christmas Day — No lines, Madame!)
This week’s Photo-a-Week Challenge is RAINDROPS.
She thinks that’s what’s going on in these pictures. Or mebbe she was just too tired and it was too early in the morning and her hand was shaking. She was in a cab headed to the airport, where she was going to fly, first, to London, and then to the Philippines.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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May 15, 2019 at 7:20 pm (Artists and Writers, Books, destinations, Personal Bookshelf, Places, Recommended, Traveling, Women Writers)
Tags: Cornwall, discoveries, England, English writers, Fowey, happiness, Jane Austen, novel, reading lists
Up one flight of stairs in Fowey Hall there is a telescope. Self tried looking through the it but couldn’t see anything. Ah well.
What synchronicity, though, with the cover of Persuasion (She bought her copy from the London Review Bookshop, a few weeks ago)
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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May 15, 2019 at 11:42 am (Artists and Writers, Books, destinations, Personal Bookshelf, Places, Recommended, Traveling, Women Writers)
Tags: Cornwall, Daphne du Maurier, discoveries, England, English writers, Fowey, literary festivals, novel
Self took a walk to Bookends of Fowey, 4 South Street. And such a dear little bookshop it is. So many books, of so much variety, all found in one little corner of Fowey!
4 South Street, Fowey: Bookends
Self never forgets, not for one moment, that she is here because of Daphne du Maurier:
She’s made up her mind to buy one of the below. Not more than one because she is still traveling and it is a bear to tote books on/off buses and trains!
In keeping with the spirit of du Maurier, she thinks her one precious book purchase should be a novel. A novel by a woman.
On her Festival Survey Form, she only made one comment: Points for including such a variety of women authors. Keep it that way!
Stay tuned.
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May 14, 2019 at 11:11 pm (destinations, Places, Traveling)
Tags: Cornwall, discoveries, Fowey
The harbor of Fowey:
WOWOWOWOWOWOW!!!
And, just in case you didn’t get the point, there is a giant model of a sailboat on the first floor landing of the hotel and, at one end of the first floor corridor, a telescope pointed towards the sea.
Stay tuned.
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May 14, 2019 at 4:13 pm (Books, destinations, Personal Bookshelf, Places, Recommended, Traveling, Women Writers)
Tags: discoveries, England, English writers, Jane Austen, novel, reading lists
After securing accommodations, and ordering a dinner at one of the inns, the next thing to be done was unquestionably to walk directly down to the sea. They were come too late in the year for any amusement or variety which Lyme, as a public place, might offer, the rooms were shut up, the lodgers almost all gone, scarcely any family but of the residents left — and, as there is nothing to admire but the buildings themselves, the remarkable situation of the town, the principal street almost hurrying into the water, the walk up to the Cobb, skirting round the pleasant little bay, which in the season is animated with bathing machines and company, the Cobb itself, its old wonders and new improvements, with the very beautiful line of cliffs stretching out to east of the town, are what the stranger’s eye will seek; and a very strange stranger it must be, who does not see charms in the immediate environs of Lyme, to make him wish to know it better.
Fowey Quay (standing in for Lyme here, sorry!)
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April 23, 2019 at 12:26 pm (destinations, Food and Drink, Links, Places, Traveling)
Tags: Cee Neuner, favorites, London, restaurants
It’s been a few weeks, at least, since self was able to join Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge.
Today, self is in London. She walked around her Bloomsbury neighborhood and took pictures, all with an eye to the current Fun Foto Challenge, SIGNS. Here are a few:
Right outside the British Museum, which self visited yesterday.
Directly across the street from the British Museum: This bubble tea place is always full.
An Alley Off Bury Place
Stay tuned.
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April 14, 2019 at 4:16 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Filipino Writers, Sayings, Sundays, Traveling, Women Writers)
Tags: happiness, inspiration, seasons, travel
Self travels the world.
And does her best to be happy.
That is all.
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