Travel Freak

On Friday the Republic I found an alert interesting for fans of travel and mysteries, for devotees of 1408… This is a book, or rather a guide “The Penguin book of ghosts” (available on amazon.co.uk to 9.74 pounds) which proposes a route between skulls and ghosts for a holiday English “fear”, wandering between skulls speakers and spectra of animals without head, wives murdered and growers ghost.

A text to navigate the places contaminated with supernatural presences in which Jennifer Westwood and Jacqueline Simpson have reviewed a list of localities British assediate by ghosts.

County for the county tell the stories are more surreal: two young wives, killed at Cleeve Corner, near the village of Prestbury in the county of Gloucestershire and Armboth Hall, in the Lake District, returning to the place of the crime with a veil and bouquet. In the county of Cumbria, where stands the Muncaster Castle, from 1880 the skulls of two peasants condemned unjustly shout revenge. In the district of Kensington, east London, tells the story of a woman dead from 15 years whose ghost has appeared on the day of death of her husband.

There are not even the ectoplasmi animals: in the village of Stanney, in Cheshire, people are frightened by the spectre of un’anatra without head. And in the county of Shropshire village Hyssington is terrified by a bull with eyes fiammeggianti.

On holiday in the homes of writers

An idea of original holiday for all lovers of books? Staying in the homes of our favorite writers. Yes, maybe there happen to take tea with Stephen King or playing quidditch with JK Rowling, but would you like to put the pleasure unique and unrepeatable to rent the house of John Keats or Robert Louis Stevenson?

This bell’articolo of The Observer presents a list of places open to the public where you can relive the atmosphere from which it drew inspiration our favorite novels. Why not take advantage: for the homeless in Kent where Charles Dickens lived during the long summer holidays, between 1937 and 1959, (and where seems to have written Nicholas Nickleby) spend from 83 to 207 pounds. Without considering that, from 19 to 22 June, you can participate in Broadstairs Dickens Festival 2008.

And what they say the room number 511 of the Ambos Mundos, in Havana, where Ernest Hemingway wrote “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” which he himself described as “a good place to write.” The list is long, from Berlin where Franz Kafka stayed that to Key West described by Tennessee Williams, up to the estate in Vermont where Rudyard Kipling spent his honeymoon (and learned to ski on skis from donatigli Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the inventor of Sherlock Holmes).