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Backpacking Europe: Day 30

Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Shakespeare

I used to know a guy who was related to Shakespeare, he was a cousin and descended from some of the Bard's male relatives. I can't remember precisely what the relationship was. Anyway he seemed like a nice enough guy even though he preferred computers to writing essays in English or any other language. I suspect almost everyone is somehow related to some famous or infamous person in history even though we don't know the relationship unless there is a shared last name.

I never was too crazy about reading Shakespeare's plays, all though I do enjoy seeing them performed. I prefer to read the love sonnets because the romantic in me likes to hear love sonnets read aloud even if I'm the one reading them aloud to myself. Most of the guys I got involved with didn't have a romantic bone in their body, which is too bad because I would have liked to hear how they read a Shakespearean love sonnet. I know a lot of make poet who can read poems of any type the way they should be read, but then poet's are romantics deep in their souls.

Lunch Tour

A food tour is my second favorite type of tour. My favorite tour is a tour that takes me through haunted houses and places. All though I caught glimpses of them out of the corner of my eye, I've never had a conversation with a ghost. Since the tour of the five housed didn't reveal Shakespeare's ghost I'll be happy to end this tour of England with food. I'm a romantic at heart and there isn't anything more romantic then food unless it's meeting the ghost of Shakespeare or some other writer.