Two weekends ago, I set off for Stratford Upon Avon at a ridiculous time in the morning with my two good friends Caragh Finnan and Amber Maltby, to have a Shakespearience. We were quite excited, despite the time. It was rather like a school trip in that we had a our lunches packed the night before, stayed up and talked about the following day with anticipation of what we would see on our trip, and then went to sleep with the realisation that we were waking up in no less than 5 hours.
As we were on the bus, we discussed our levels of excitement and the fact that we were the youngest people on the bus, whilst being surrounded by lots of pensioners. I was thinking at the time that it must have seemed a little weird to the other people on the bus, that we were interested in Shakespeare despite our age. We did not come with the general loathing of this influential writer that you will find in most students our age.
In just 4 short hours we had gone from the splendid scenery of Wales to the beauty of the town that bore Shakespeare. I must explain that we were going with the intention of looking at the Birthplace of Shakespeare, Anne Hathaway's Cottage and Shakespeare's grave. We managed two of those things without much difficulty, and we'd have done the other and seen more of the town if we hadn't have been so constricted on time. We knew that we had to be back on the bus by 5 and so decided we would go for another Shakespearience another day, but with our own time schedule, independent of a party.
I found the prettiest place to be the cottage of Anne Hatha
way, which, for a cottage was really quite large. It seemed to me to be somewhere you would want to live if you had small children, because there were the woods out in the back and such a vast amount of garden, when you take into account the fact that it is a cottage and not a house. However, I will admit that being on the first floor of this cottage was rather scary because you could see the ground floor through the wooden slats on the floor. This is not something that I would enjoy every day! For the time that it was built though, I suppose it would have been just the norm. I personally prefer my floors to be of some substance so that you don't feel you will fall through if you take a wrong step!
Now, when they say that you are not allowed to touch anything in the room, you should listen! Deciding to lean on the bedpost of Shakespeare's second favourite bed is not a good idea when it's not very stable. You could almost fall through onto the bed, and if the floor's are that unstable, there's no telling where you will end up!
It's rather weird going to visit such places where writer's used to live and work, and it makes me wonder if this will happen in the future as regards such author's like J K Rowling and other influential people. I also wonder whether Shakespeare will continue to be such a role model for writing in the future, when a lot more time has passed.
As we were on the bus, we discussed our levels of excitement and the fact that we were the youngest people on the bus, whilst being surrounded by lots of pensioners. I was thinking at the time that it must have seemed a little weird to the other people on the bus, that we were interested in Shakespeare despite our age. We did not come with the general loathing of this influential writer that you will find in most students our age.
In just 4 short hours we had gone from the splendid scenery of Wales to the beauty of the town that bore Shakespeare. I must explain that we were going with the intention of looking at the Birthplace of Shakespeare, Anne Hathaway's Cottage and Shakespeare's grave. We managed two of those things without much difficulty, and we'd have done the other and seen more of the town if we hadn't have been so constricted on time. We knew that we had to be back on the bus by 5 and so decided we would go for another Shakespearience another day, but with our own time schedule, independent of a party.
I found the prettiest place to be the cottage of Anne Hatha
way, which, for a cottage was really quite large. It seemed to me to be somewhere you would want to live if you had small children, because there were the woods out in the back and such a vast amount of garden, when you take into account the fact that it is a cottage and not a house. However, I will admit that being on the first floor of this cottage was rather scary because you could see the ground floor through the wooden slats on the floor. This is not something that I would enjoy every day! For the time that it was built though, I suppose it would have been just the norm. I personally prefer my floors to be of some substance so that you don't feel you will fall through if you take a wrong step!Now, when they say that you are not allowed to touch anything in the room, you should listen! Deciding to lean on the bedpost of Shakespeare's second favourite bed is not a good idea when it's not very stable. You could almost fall through onto the bed, and if the floor's are that unstable, there's no telling where you will end up!
It's rather weird going to visit such places where writer's used to live and work, and it makes me wonder if this will happen in the future as regards such author's like J K Rowling and other influential people. I also wonder whether Shakespeare will continue to be such a role model for writing in the future, when a lot more time has passed.
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