BW5: Brit Tripping

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Next week, the Great Mysterious British road trip will begin and and will affectionately be called Brit Tripping from here on.  The trip is hosted by Sandy and Amy and they are here to explain all about the rules, the ranks, trips, and the schedule.

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This year we’ll be following the Roman roads through England with the intent of reading a book from each of the 45 counties with a few extra trips to London. At the beginning of the week we’ll check in with our route and we’ll post what we’ve read. Pack your bags and kindles and audiobooks and get ready to Brit Trip!

One of the challenges we discovered in planning was that the counties change frequently and in many places overlap with other counties and then there’s some disagreement on what is and isn’t a county.

Here’s an interesting article on the confusion of English counties!

General rules:

• Join in for as much as you want. This is supposed to be fun.
• Let us know if you are in so we know who we are caravanning with!
• Rereads are allowed.
• No page number minimum.
• Please follow us on Goodreads. We’ll be shelving our Brit Tripping reads on their own shelf. To see what counties are included you need to go MumtoTwo’s page and click on SETTINGS next to the search box and check the box for RECOMMENDER. Then at the bottom of the beige box click on CLOSE.
• Our expected itinerary will be posted every Sunday.
• The complete schedule for the year is available in the England Mystery road trip link above. 

  

Join a bus:

• The Detectives (Mystery reading)
• The Rebels (Mixed genre reading)

All those who joined us for our adventures will earn a rank based on number of counties completed.

And the final level is The Bertram Wooster. That is earned by reading one book set in England of any genre but failing spectacularly at all other challenges. A good attitude must be maintained despite numerous hardships. Employing a Gentleman’s Gentleman is optional but encouraged. Bonus points awarded if you are accidentally engaged multiple times during the year.

Schedule:

Ermine Street

• 2/04 - London (Scotland Yard)
• 2/11 – Cambridgeshire
• 2/18 – Huntingdonshire
• 2/25 – Bedfordshire
• 3/04 – Northampton shire and Rutland
• 3/11 - Nottinghamshire
• 3/18 - East and West Riding of Yorkshire
• 3/25 – York

Dere Street

• 4/01 – North Yorkshire
• 4/08 – Durham
• 4/15 – Tyne and Wear
• 4/22 – Northumbria

Ichnield Way

• 4/29 – Isle of Wight
• 5/06 – Dorset
• 5/13 – Hampshire
• 5/20 – Berkshire
• 5/27 – Buckinghamshire
• 6/03 – Herefordshire
• 6/10 – Essex
• 6/17 – Suffolk
• 6/24 - Norfolk

Fosse Way

• 7/01 – Cornwall
• 7/08 – Devon
• 7/15 – Dorset
• 7/22 – Gloucestershire
• 7/29 – Derbyshire
• 8/12 – Lincolnshire

Akemam Street

• 8/19 – London
• 8/26 – Oxfordshire
• 9/02 – Wiltshire
• 9/09 – Somerset

Watling Way

• 09/16 – Kent
• 09/23 – Sussex
• 09/30 – Surrey
• 10/07 – Spooky London
• 10/14 – Worcestershire
• 10/21 – Warwickshire
• 10/28 – West Midlands
• 11/04 – Staffordshire
• 11/11 – Shropshire
• 11/18 – Cheshire
• 11/25 – Merseyside
• 12/02 – Manchester
• 12/09 – Lancashire
• 12/16 – Cumbria

Christmas in London

We hope you enjoy traveling around England with us!

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