Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Salisbury Day Two - Chawton

Today we pick up a rental car for the week, starting with a nice morning walk across town. Today Helen wants to visit Jane Austen's House in Chawton.

We want to take backroads there, more scenic than motorway. So we dial up the destination on the GPS, then set a waypoint of Stockbridge. Then off we go then. 3/4 of an hour later, we realise we're going in the wrong direction, to another Stockbridge. There are apparently many Stockbridges in the UK. So we fix that and have just added 1 1/2 hours to our journey. The GPS is dumbing us down - we'll have to watch that.

Jane Austen's House is somewhat interesting, more so for Helen than me. Jane Austen did however actually live there and many of her possessions are still there along with possessions of her family. So it's informative and reasonably relevant.


Helen buys a number of items in the store, no surprise there!

For the rest of the day we head back to Salisbury, and have a restful afternoon. After our busy time in Germany and Switzerland, it's nice to get some real peace and quiet.

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