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Napoleonic weekend Lucca 5 – Picnic at a palace
The last part of the event in Italy was a visit to the gorgeous “villa” Villa Torrigiani. I wrote “villa” like that because even though that’s what it’s called, in my eyes it looks more like a palace....
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Another picnic! This time in Stockholm
I have more than once complained about there being no Regency events in my country, Sweden has been severely lacking of anything like that. But lately a few small events has begun to spring up in the...
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Bath part 1 – Promenading and theatricals
I thought I would be able to update on here sooner than this, but I really have been terribly busy, and still am! I got back home from the UK in the evening of the 25th, and in the morning of the 27th...
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Bath part 2 – More promenading, embroidery and… Mr Wickham!!
Day two of the festival actually started off in rather a similar manner as the day before, with another promenade! This was a “mini promenade” and it was the first time, to my knowledge at least, that...
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Bath part 3 – Corsets, costume talks and music recitals
The Monday was a relatively quiet day for me in Bath. I had ‘only’ one event to attend so spent the rest of the day wandering around the city, shopping and just browsing shops. The event I was going to...
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Bath part 4 – Stourhead House and Gardens
So, Stourhead House and Gardens. I said in my previous post that I’d do a separate on just for this, because I have quite a few pictures I’d like to show you. Now I don’t know if any of you are...
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Bath part 5 – Shoes and Musicals
We have now reached the Wednesday at the festival. I feel I must get a move on writing these updates now since it is now already more than a month since this festival took place! Get writing Aurora! My...
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Bath part 6 – Dancing and playing games
Finally on the Thursday it was time for some dancing! There really is something special about dancing, it’s fun and makes you feel good! This event was called “As danced in 1812″ and it was the Jane...
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Bath part 7 – not one but TWO Regency Balls!
Last post for this years Jane Austen Festival. The Friday dawned and there was excitement in the air, the ball day had arrived! Last year, some of you may remember, the Farthingale ball in the Assembly...
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Winter Ball in Haarlem – Holland
The ball season started earlier for me this year than it usually does. It is only the first of March and I’ve already been to one ball. This ball was in Holland, in a town called Haarlem. “1813: Keetje...
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Waterloo part 1 – Camp life
Greetings everyone! After I wrote last time things with the blog have not worked out quite like I planned. We were traveling for 5 weeks with no internet at all and when we came back the internet at...
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Waterloo part 2 – Balls and Battles
So the ball and the battle? Well I said I’d write about those next so that’s what I’m going to do. As I’m sure you all know, in 1815 on June 17th there was a big ball held in Brussles; the Duchess of...
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