England as You Like It
by Susan Allen Toth

"Tucked into the deep hills of western Dorset, just off the major tourist routes across England, Chedington is so small that its handful of cottages doesn't even appear on some large-scale maps. Here, far from crowds that haunt Blenheim Palace, Stonehenge, Stratford-upon-Avon, or Haworth, I find the England of my dreams--quiet, pastoral, and sometimes endearingly eccentric...."
Join Susan Allen Toth as she takes you along on her fascinating journeys to London, to enchanting gardens, to a fairy-tale castle on the Cornish coast with a history-laden past--and to sights both hidden and known. With a novelist's eye for detail and an intrepid traveler's love of adventure, Ms. Toth reveals the secrets of impeccable preparation, while leaving plenty of room for surprising discoveries. And ever practical, she offers her experience on how to keep a travel journal, how to be your own travel agent, how much time to allow for your visits, as well as the pleasures of bed-and-breakfasts, supermarket souvenirs, and hidden gardens in the city of London. Lively, trenchant, personal, and above all, entertaining, England As You Like It puts the armchair and real-life traveler under the wing of a seasoned and multitalented tour guide.

Selected from the nonfiction VBB. Enjoy!

Received this from a nonfiction VBB. It looks like it will both inspire me to try to outdo her with a trip of my own, and allow me to do some armchair travel.

Things have been changing so much in Britain: let's see if much has changed since she travelled in 1995. I'm always shocked by how much smartphones have changed our lives, even when traveling.

Thank you so much, perryfran!

very outdated, but she's a good traveler and a useful writer. nice chance to remember what I saw in England and get excited about returning again.

This LFL is stuffed quite full. Decided that I had internalized everything from this book, and would pass it along to help someone else have a marvelous trip in the U.K.