Bibliophile, Anglophile, travel-o-phile (yeah, I don't know the -philia for traveling*) ... arachnophobic, aviophobic, and hydrophobic (well, maybe it's really more like thalassophobic) ...
(*Thanks to Shelfarian sweetafton, who tells me that hodophilia is love of road trips and siderodromophilia is love of train travel. Count me in!)
Some Shelfarians have lovely chatty profiles, and I just can't compete with that! So, since I don't know what else to write about myself, I'll ... uh ... make a list of places I've been to in Europe:
ENGLAND: London and environs, Bath, Canterbury, Dover, Windsor, Norwich, Brighton, Chester
SCOTLAND: Edinburgh, Fort William, St. Andrews, Stirling, Aberdeen, Inverness, Glasgow
IRELAND: Dublin, Malahide, Avoca, Cork, Kinsale, Dingle, Galway, Westport, Portrush, Belfast, Derry
WALES: Cardiff (would love to see more!)
FRANCE: Paris, Bayeux, Normandy Beaches, Fougeres, Chinon, Mont St-Michel, Bourges, Guedelon, Beaune
THE NETHERLANDS: Amsterdam, Haarlem
ITALY: Rome, Florence, San Gimignano, Volterra, Venice, Monterosso, Vernazza, Massa Marittima
GERMANY: Bacharach-on-the-Rhine, Rothenburg-ob-der-Tauber, St. Goar, Dachau
AUSTRIA: Schwangau, Pinswang
SWITZERLAND: Interlaken, Lauterbrunnen, Stechelberg, Murren, Grutschalp
Er, that's it. I will always go back to the British Isles, but I wish the exchange rate wasn't so brutal! I'd love to do more traveling in Italy and France, and I'm very anxious to see more of Germany and Austria. Also wish I had enough money to do Scandinavia.
I have always been bookish, and I simply can't understand people who claim that they never read or that they haven't read a book since high school. I wonder if their brain cells will deteriorate quicker than mine will.
My favorite word is: festoon.
My Anglophiles Anonymous name is Chloe Cavendish. Chloe was named after her great grandmother, a French prostitute with whom her great grandfather, Viscount Cavendish, fell in love during his time in Paris studying the Impressionists. Chloe has two pet otters: Gertrude ("True") and Britton ("Brit"). She has a permanent suite at the Cavendish Hotel in Jermyn Street, but she tends to visit Manleigh Hall and simply not leave.
I do like to receive Friend Invitations, but if we haven't interacted in the Groups at all, please do at least send me a note concurrent with sending the Friend Invitation. :-)
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