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How about a scene from a TV version of a favourite book. I visited the location (in Stockport) used for Pemberley in the Colin Firth version of Pride and Prejudice. The only bit I recognised was the steps that he runs down at one point. Not sure that I managed to locate the infamous lake, but this was a few years back. I am also a regular visitor to Alton, the local town of Jane Austen, which probably inspired some of her writing.

I visited Shrewsbury Abbey and viewed the Edith Pathgeter (Ellis Peters) window and from the carousel beneath it bought some Cadfael Mysteries which then got stamped Bought at Shrewsbury Abbey. I used to live near Holywell and know well the Shrine of St Winifred that features in the opening to the first Cadfael novel A Morbid Taste for Bones.

I went to a bar called U Kalicha in Prague because I read about it in the Good Soldier Svejk

A bit of a tourist trap but I was pleased to have gone all the same

I visited san Fran after loving Armistead Maupin and his tales of the city series..... and Anne rice inspired me to new Orleans .....not any one location in particular...just to visit.

I've had tea twice in The Panama Hotel in Seattle's Old Japantown as referenced in the title of Jamie Ford's Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

I can't say I've been somewhere because I've read about it in a book, but I can say that I've read a book because I've been to the place.

Both of the books below I read as I had visited the island of Spinalonga on Crete.

Yannis by Beryl Darby

and

The Island by Victoria Hislop

As a teenager I read my way through Mary Stewarts 1960s thriller novels which were set in exotic parts of Europe and when it came time to decide where to go when planning my first oe from NZ the locations of those novels did feature prominently - glad they did as I probably would have never thought to visit such gems as Les Baux in Province or even Delphi in Greece if I hadn't immersed my self in them through those novels ;-). still planning to visit Vienna sometime in the future because of them too!

I have a desire to visit many of the planets I read about as a spotty youth (although not all of them - some were a little unpleasant).

Sadly mankind seems to be too busy gazing it's collective navel and trying its hardest to go extinct, so I suspect it won't happen.

Philip wrote: "Louise wrote: "I visited san Fran after loving Armistead Maupin and his tales of the city series..... and Anne rice inspired me to new Orleans .....not any one location in particular...just to visi..."

You just want to skip and dance down the street singing "good morning Baltimore" don't you?? I know I wouldn't be able to resist. :)


Btw think I just read Mapp and Lucia are coming to tv this festive season. Sorry if that's old news.

I've been to the lake that Darcy/Firth came out. It's behind the house but completely unrecognisable to the drama. It's much smaller and where he comes out isn't where Elizabeth was standing. Lovely scene cutting. We went for a walk and cake rather than Darcy.

Most of my reading is in Fantasy places so I can't visit.

I was very excited in Tunisia when wandering around Anakin Skywalker's home. my daughter kept saying 'yes mum'. Later,I realised I was being patronised!

I took Labyrinth to read on Crete as I thought the maze theme would be appropriate.

That's in my tbr list - is it good??

Was a while ago but remember enjoying it.

Louise wrote: "I visited san Fran after loving Armistead Maupin and his tales of the city series..... and Anne rice inspired me to new Orleans .....not any one location in particular...just to visit."

I did too! Although I think I would have got to San Francisco regardless, I loved seeing all the things/places that I'd read about in the books.

Another movie location. I live about 10 minutes walk from the Old Naval College in Greenwich. It's Painted Hall is the location for the opening scene (in the movie, not the book) of The Golden Compass. It is masquerading as Jordan College dining hall.

Did you ever listen to the Mapp & Lucia adaptations on the radio? I think Geraldine McEwan was in them (just checking....) Miranda Richardson should be wonderful (loved her as Black Adder's Queenie among others).

Philip wrote: "I didn't hear the radio version. Geraldine McEwan was Lucia in the 1980s TV adaptation with Prunella Scales and Nigel Hawthorne...

Queenie is my favourite Miranda Richardson role! In fact, it's my favourite character in the whole of Blackadder..."

They must have used the same cast for the radio - as now you mention it, Prunella Scales was in it too. I can't remember who played Georgie, as Nigel Hawthorne would have popped his clogs by then...

Miranda Richardson was wonderful as Queenie. Did you ever see Tim Burton's (chaotic & confusing) 'Alice in Wonderland'? Helena Bonham Carter (another great actress) was the Queen of Hearts - imho she was the best thing in it (they gave her a fantastically oversized head via CGI) BUT her whole performance was directly channeling Miranda Richardson in BlackAdder.

Must dig out BlackAdder for a rewatch...

Sorry, just realised I've gone completely off topic!

I think most of these topics go off thread on a regular basis.

It's a tie for me between Queenie, and the Rik Mayall character, was it flasheart??
Both gloriously ott......something Helena B.C excelles at too.

Louise wrote: "I think most of these topics go off thread on a regular basis.

It's a tie for me between Queenie, and the Rik Mayall character, was it flasheart??
Both gloriously ott......something Helena B.C excells at too..."

Yes, Lord FlashHeart - Woof!

I always loved the way the actors would come back in a different guise each series:
Miranda Richardson was a highwayman/woman in the third:


Wow, that's the first time I've set up a link that actually works....
I'd better stop the nostalgia-fest now, while I'm ahead ;)

I recently went to an outdoor theatre production of 3 of the Blackadder episodes and the cast were excellent. We (the audience) were under cover, but the stage wasn't and despite the downpour the actors carried on in true theatrical style. Baldrick was fantastic - difficult to distinguish between his and Tony Robinson's portrayal.