notes about the England

[rowanf]

I spent another morning fussing about hotels in York. Since all my self-catering inquiries came through I'm on to regular hotels. The cheapest I've found is L80/$140 a night with most being about L140/$250. Yikes. My current candidate is Queens Hotel.


Continuing to contemplate the Swanage Folk Festival. Swanage seems rather back-of-beyond. One could train to Bournemouth from London (2 hours) and then take a ferry it seems. This is not sounding like a day trip. Both performers I'm particularly keen on are playing on Sunday. We're supposed to have checked into our London apartment on Saturday. And I had planned to travel late afternoon so we could go to the Brigantia Crafts Faire at Castle Howard that morning. So it would be hard to travel to London, get our apt, train out to Bournemouth and spend the night there or Swanage to go to the Festival on Sunday. Unless I decide to leave York early and forget the crafts fair. Maybe get to Swanage and do some Dorset/Purbeck sightseeing. I need to figure this out because I need to book the hotels soon.

Well, I've spent enough hours on this for today. *sigh* I need to get off the computer, my touchpad finger is numb.

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[rowanf.livejournal.com]

We come in country on September 4th and immediately head for York. Exactly when we leave York is up in the air at the moment. I'm pushing to head for Dorset on the 8th/9th or so. We have a flat in London (Kensington) for the week of Sept 10-17, but at the moment it is a bit uncertain if both of us will be in London then or if I'll swing being in Swanage for the festival on the 11th. I'm worried about the train to ferry link. The late return train from Bournemouth says it takes over 9hours to get to London instead of the usual 2 hours. I don't know if the web schedule is just messed up or if that is true! *laugh* And I really don't want to rent a motor to drive into London. We sometimes drive in the country but driving out of London once cured us of that.

So, get together sometime during the week of the 12th in London?