Tag: travel
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Taking a Regency Holiday: Travel Regency Style
Travel is not for the meek of heart. I love to travel to new places, encounter new experiences … but I don’t especially care for the actual “travel” part. You know, the hassle of the airport (passports, security, squashy-tin-flying-thing, customs), or driving (stuck in a car forever). I usually have to decide I really want…
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Travelling: Social Curiosity Today and in the Regency
I just got back from San Francisco this week (awesome city, lots of fun). While traveling, I’ve been going through a travel book written in the Regency in c.1804, “Letters from England” by Robert Southey. Essentially, the author notes and observes some of what he considers oddities he encounters on his travels through England, largely…