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....

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[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?