Location from Work in Progress by Kat Mackenzie
The southern half of the tour route — from Gothic coastlines to Shakespeare's market town, a country that has been generating literature and bad weather in equal measure for a thousand years.
The English portion of the tour covers the country's literary greatest hits — Brontë Country, Whitby, Stratford, Oxford. The landscape is gentler than Scotland but no less evocative, and the literary history is denser per square mile than almost anywhere on Earth. Alice navigates England with the slightly overwhelmed energy of an American who expected quaintness and found complexity.
Rolling green countryside crossed by hedgerows and ancient roads. Stone villages, cathedral cities, patchwork farmland, and a coastline that ranges from dramatic cliffs to grey shingle beaches. The motorways are boring; the B-roads are beautiful. Rain is a feature, not a bug.
Also known as: England