This April, I embarked on a 9-day vacation to London, Bath, and Paris. It was my first time abroad and my first time abroad by myself. I wanted it to be the nerdiest, most bookish vacation I’ve ever been on. There are a thousand ways to go about a literary tour in major and minor cities all over the world, and we’ve written extensively about them (including London), so I’m just going to tell you how this Rioter conducted a London literary tour on her own using some of those guides (and also, how grand plans to see All The Things do not always pan out in reality, but damn if it wasn’t a hell of a good time anyway).
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