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Have you taken a trip to a place in a book/author's house?

Posted: 22 May 2013, 15:56
by lady_charlie
A Da Vinci Code tour?

Been to Shakespeare's house or actually gone to Norfolk Island?

I want to go to all the places in my books but I don't get to. :cry:

Re: Have you taken a trip to a place in a book/author's hous

Posted: 06 Jun 2013, 11:57
by suzy1124
Visited the Hemingway house in Key West....

left w/a " delicious " souvenir...one of those legendary cats followed me out to my car and jumped right in....

i told my husband: " let's go ! " he said: " you can't do that "......" watch me ! " i said....

( am i a bad person?).............the cat made the choice.... :wink:

Carpe Diem!

Suzy....

Re: Have you taken a trip to a place in a book/author's hous

Posted: 06 Jun 2013, 13:05
by lady_charlie
Kismet I think

so you have a famous cat out of that deal as well

now that is a literary adventure!

I like Hemingway but some people around here are not impressed. Well, I liked Hemingway until I went to a real bullfight, anyway, and the bullfighters were not very good, and that is about all I have to say about that.

Re: Have you taken a trip to a place in a book/author's hous

Posted: 11 Dec 2013, 21:49
by Bighuey
I saw a log cabin Zane Grey once lived in in Torrey, Utah.

Re: Have you taken a trip to a place in a book/author's hous

Posted: 14 Dec 2013, 08:29
by Felisari
While I was living at UK.

I really spent my days Off around visiting historical (Mostly Literary) Places :lol: :lol:

One of the best was the House of Jane Austen

It is really lovely in the middle of a small village called Chawton in Hampshire. And I was nexto to the chair and Table where she wrote mostly of her best-Sellers.

So I was touched :oops:



Just to Specify it was fairly rainning when I visit. :lol:

Re: Have you taken a trip to a place in a book/author's hous

Posted: 14 Dec 2013, 11:05
by Ant
I regularly go to Stratford Upon Avon as it's only a short drive away from where I live, it's great to be around Shakespeare's home turf and Anne Hathaway's cottage is well worth a visit.

Re: Have you taken a trip to a place in a book/author's hous

Posted: 21 Dec 2013, 07:32
by Maud Fitch
Ant wrote:I regularly go to Stratford Upon Avon as it's only a short drive away from where I live, it's great to be around Shakespeare's home turf and Anne Hathaway's cottage is well worth a visit.
I agree, Ant, so quaint and pretty.

My most memorable house visits were those inhabited at one time or another by Beatrix Potter, author of Tales Of Peter Rabbit. She used to go on summer holidays away from London to Scotland and the Lake District and wrote her unique animal stories using actual places, Hill Top Farm, villages, houses and gardens. There were many connections to her work, each with memorabilia, and I could see why the Ambleside landscape inspired her with its rural beauty.

Re: Have you taken a trip to a place in a book/author's hous

Posted: 08 Aug 2014, 15:55
by suzy1124
Of course the Thomas Wolfe House here in the mts. of N.C., very big tourist attraction...

It was the family home, as well as a boarding house...

Re: Have you taken a trip to a place in a book/author's hous

Posted: 01 Feb 2015, 08:06
by ALynnPowers
I had no idea that such kinds of tour existed! I am so out of touch with the rest of the world! 8)

Re: Have you taken a trip to a place in a book/author's hous

Posted: 10 Apr 2015, 12:27
by Ealasaid
I have visted Hemingway's home in Key West, FL, as well as Nathaniel Hawthorne's birthplace in Salem, MA.

Re: Have you taken a trip to a place in a book/author's hous

Posted: 10 Apr 2015, 12:47
by PashaRu
Seems a few have been to Hemingway's house in Key West. Me, too. I've been to Dickens' home on Doughty Sreet in London. Also some Russian writer's home (I don't remember his name) near St. Petersburg, Russia. Probably a few others I'm not remembering.

Re: Have you taken a trip to a place in a book/author's hous

Posted: 10 Apr 2015, 14:32
by Loki
Not yet, but I hope to one day! I think that would be a truly lovely source of inspiration, would get my creative juices flowing for sure. :)

Re: Have you taken a trip to a place in a book/author's hous

Posted: 14 May 2015, 09:33
by Jolyon Trevelyan
I have been been at the house were Arne Garborg lived. Arne Garborg is a Norwegian author who lived between 1851 and 1924.