The Ideal Retreat
This sounds like the ideal retreat (for me). Manor house. Check. Everyone is on board with silent reading time. Check. Talking about books. Check. Lack of pressure to do anything more than read? Check. Check. Check.
Actually, it sounds like they took walks, listened to stories, and played games. So minimal pressure to do anything else, but those other things all sound like things I’d like to do, too.
I would want to do it with people I know, but I could also be happy doing it with a group of strangers in an awesome space. There’s a part of me that would feel a bit guilty — I traveled so far to do something I could do by myself at home? But I think it would make me happy.
Would you want to go?
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I’m down for any kind of travel, but I don’t know if that would be my favorite vacation plan. I tend more towards movement than stillness when I travel. I always bring books, but don’t usually read them. Except when we went on a cruise to Alaska. Still moving. Lots of scenery, but also time to read. It didn’t hurt that their library was amazing and stocked with new releases (instead of what appeared to be other people’s left-behind items, as on the other cruise we took).