Travel thoughts...

[fajrdrako]

I'm considering going to The Hub 3. Does anyone have any advice for a clueless Canadian who's never been to Birmingham except to change buses? When I'm in England, where else should I go?

Or I might go to England in August or September, for one of the John Barrowman concerts, which would be better walking weather. I'm hoping to hike a little as well. Still undecided....

Comments

[aeron-lanart.livejournal.com]

I'm probably going to be attending Hub 3 too. Not really got any advice, as last time I was in Birmingham for a convention it was in the City Centre and not by the airport like this one.

One thing I'll say about the weather though; it's the UK, it could be doing anything! Bright sunshine and glorious hiking weather or howling gales, rain and sleet plus everything in between and possibly all on the same day! If you do come over and you'd like to see something culturally as well as aesthetically interesting then go over to Whitby on the Yorkshire coat the weekend after Hub 3; it's Whitby Goth Weekend when about 5000 goths descend on a small seaside town made famous by Bram Stoker...

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I'm still examining my options re visiting the UK. The Hub looks so... enticing. Especially after seeing people's comments on The Hub 2.

Whitby! I adore that part of the world - Yorkshire, and northern England - and Whitby has huge personal resonances for me, not because of Bram Stoker, but because of the Synod there in 633 which I once did a paper about, and I fell in love with King Oswy of Northumbria. (Doesn't take much, with me.)

[aeron-lanart.livejournal.com]

I have a soft spot for Hild, who shared the same grandfather as Owwy IIRC. Whitby Abbey is a lovely place, even though no trace remains of Hild's abbey of Streoneshalh. I haven't been up there for a year or 2 I think so I might make the effort to have a trip up there this WGW. A few years back they did a dig at the top of the cliff by the abbey as they were concerned they were going to lose a lot of history into the sea - rightly so as during the 9 years I've been going to goth weekend that area of land has got perceptibly smaller.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I'd have to look at a geneology to see how/whether Hild and Oswy were related, but I recall that there was some connection - wasn't she a niece of King Edwin? (Note to self: referesh my knowledge of these folk I used to know so well. Maybe I'll reread Bede. There's an online Latin group that is reading Bede in Latin - sound like time-consuming fun.)

Did they find anything really interesting in the dig, do you know?