{"id":383,"date":"2014-03-29T08:28:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-29T08:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlewanderingwren.com\/2014\/03\/stratford-upon-avons-of-the-world.html\/"},"modified":"2014-03-29T08:28:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-29T08:28:00","slug":"stratford-upon-avons-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlewanderingwren.com\/staging\/8794\/2014\/03\/29\/stratford-upon-avons-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Stratford Upon Avons of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: red;\"><i>Shall I compare thee to a summer&#8217;s day?<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Did you know, there is more than one Stratford-Upon-Avon in the world?<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">The most famous, being the birthplace of <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">playwright and poet&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">William&nbsp;Shakespeare,&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">&nbsp;but Stratford-Upon-Avon, Victoria,&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">is Australia&#8217;s lesser known equivalent&#8230;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Well sort of&#8230;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><b><span style=\"color: red; font-size: small;\">S<\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"color: red; font-size: small;\">hall I compare thee to a summer&#8217;s day?<\/span><\/b><br \/><b><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;\"><span style=\"color: red;\">Thou art more lovely and more temperate:<\/span><\/span><\/b><br \/><b><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;\"><span style=\"color: red;\">Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,<\/span><\/span><\/b><br \/><b><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;\"><span style=\"color: red;\">And summer&#8217;s lease hath all too short a date . . . .<i> &nbsp;<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/b><br \/><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.enotes.com\/sonnets\/sonnets-11-21#my-link-3\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #39aeda; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;\">&#8220;Sonnet 18,&#8221; 1\u20134<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-Z1_YUrHBg_Y\/UzPimTSy_JI\/AAAAAAAACHI\/mNHhxZM3dEs\/s1600\/SUA3.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\"  style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-Z1_YUrHBg_Y\/UzPimTSy_JI\/AAAAAAAACHI\/mNHhxZM3dEs\/s1600\/SUA3.jpg?resize=548%2C640\" height=\"640\" width=\"548\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Celebrating connections Stratfords of the World, Victoria<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">When you arrive in Stratford-Upon-Avon, Victoria,&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">or as the Aussies prefer to call it, Stratford by the river,<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">you notice immediately, how proud the town is to be one of&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Stratfords of the World&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">But apart from a big silver monument to sisterhood, a Shakespeare festival each year, oh and a river called Avon, they are worlds apart&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><b style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"color: red;\">&#8220;The course of true love never did run smooth&#8221;. &nbsp;Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream (Act I, Scene I).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><b style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"color: red;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">In my local Aussie Stratford,&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">the township<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">&nbsp;dates back to the Gold Rush in the 1850&#8217;s.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Old by Australian standards,&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">but you don&#8217;t quite get the spectacular heritage like you do in England&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">They do it their way:<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Shakespeare with a twist!&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-fC9HSdlqcXc\/UzYOmSCPyqI\/AAAAAAAACIU\/0VfHs0h4_d4\/s1600\/SUA8.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\"  style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-fC9HSdlqcXc\/UzYOmSCPyqI\/AAAAAAAACIU\/0VfHs0h4_d4\/s1600\/SUA8.jpg?resize=640%2C226\" height=\"226\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Stratford, Victoria Artists Walk<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">For instance what is this Aussie chap below doing?<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">He forms part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shakespearefestival.squarespace.com\/stratford-arts-trail\/\">Stratford Artists walk<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Shakespeare through the Ages.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">This is a 3km walk around the town<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">I guess you can find out more by<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">&nbsp;hiring an audio tour,&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">but when we were there, all the batteries in the Ipods (MP3s) were flat<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">!<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p><b style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Times New Roman;\">&#8220;The lady doth protest too much, methinks&#8221;. Hamlet (Act III, Sc. II).<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #e0e3ef; font-family: Times New Roman;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #e0e3ef; font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-HbksyVxavD8\/UzQP6XEu7BI\/AAAAAAAACHw\/FENKyocOvTs\/s1600\/SUA7.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\"  style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-HbksyVxavD8\/UzQP6XEu7BI\/AAAAAAAACHw\/FENKyocOvTs\/s1600\/SUA7.jpg?resize=456%2C640\" height=\"640\" width=\"456\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Artists walk Stratford, Victoria with River Avon behind<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Visiting Stratford Upon Avon, UK by contrast is to&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">step back in time up to 800 years.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">I love the rich heritage and the William Shakespeare connection.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">&nbsp;I still shudder at the thought of my schoolgirl Macbeth,<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">but I can recall every word of Portia&#8217;s Merchant of Venice speech!!<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<h1 style=\"background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: red; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;\">\u201cThe quality of mercy is not strained.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: red;\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;\">It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;\">Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed:<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;\">It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;\">&#8216;Tis mightiest in the mightiest&#8230;&#8221;&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/h1>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Ok so I&#8217;m showing off now..&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-jW6mYlgSklo\/UzYUF3ZKRmI\/AAAAAAAACIo\/Z4lbHMg3vtk\/s1600\/SUA10.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\"  style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-jW6mYlgSklo\/UzYUF3ZKRmI\/AAAAAAAACIo\/Z4lbHMg3vtk\/s1600\/SUA10.jpg?resize=640%2C640\" height=\"640\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">A couple of weeks ago, during my quick return visit to the UK, my brother bought Mum and I tickets to see Hilary Mantel&#8217;s <i>Bring Up The Bodies <\/i>at the Royal Shakespeare Company&#8217;s Swan Theatre. He also bought us a night at the wonderful Arden Hotel and the next day we had a very successful morning of birthday clothes shopping!&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Times New Roman;\">&#8220;I bear a charmed life&#8221;. Macbeth (Act V, Sc. VIII).&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Times New Roman;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-i2svh7cTJTM\/UzYUcRv7WcI\/AAAAAAAACIw\/PuSpCIZtShg\/s1600\/SUA%2B9.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\"  style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-i2svh7cTJTM\/UzYUcRv7WcI\/AAAAAAAACIw\/PuSpCIZtShg\/s1600\/SUA%2B9.jpg?resize=484%2C640\" height=\"640\" width=\"484\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Times New Roman;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Our tickets were standing room only&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">on opposite sides of the theatre,<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">which shows how popular the sell-out play is,&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">not how much he loves us&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Wow!&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Standing room only, is quite an evening out.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Mum had a rich burgundy&nbsp;velvet&nbsp;perch to relax back on&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">and I had&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">a bar&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">to lean forward on<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">(but not the sort that served a nice Gin and Tonic&#8230;)<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Well by the time we had reconnected at the interval,&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Mum had made friends with everyone on her perch,&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">and I had muscled in on a spare bit of perch on my side of the theatre<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">(thank goodness!!)<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"background-color: white; color: red;\">&#8220;Bless thee, Bottom, bless thee. Thou art translated<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"background-color: white; color: red;\">&#8221; Midsummer Night Dream (Act 3, Scene 1)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><br \/><b><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"background-color: white; color: red;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ETeF0FDL5dE\/UzQPI2Y1eEI\/AAAAAAAACHs\/T5AobUfGWYA\/s1600\/SUA6.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\"  style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ETeF0FDL5dE\/UzQPI2Y1eEI\/AAAAAAAACHs\/T5AobUfGWYA\/s1600\/SUA6.jpg?resize=484%2C640\" height=\"640\" width=\"484\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Swan Theatre stage, Stratford UK<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">This photo above is looking down on the stage,&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">the perch seats are to the left behind the wooden balcony<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">and if you look carefully you can see the bars to lean on&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Talking of bars<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">, oh were we?&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Here is a quaint British Pub in Stratford. You can take your pick.&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">On my previous visit to the UK I met my old University friends at Stratford,<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">It would be possible to do quite some pub crawl if you were so inclined&#8230; hic!<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><b style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Times New Roman;\">&#8220;Though this be madness, yet there is method in &#8216;t.&#8221; Hamlet (Act II, Scene II).&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-9arD3bab9HI\/UzQJuWuH3rI\/AAAAAAAACHc\/2qJ6xhcSL9o\/s1600\/SUA4.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\"  style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-9arD3bab9HI\/UzQJuWuH3rI\/AAAAAAAACHc\/2qJ6xhcSL9o\/s1600\/SUA4.jpg?resize=640%2C640\" height=\"640\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Shakespeare is everywhere in Stratford Upon Avon, UK<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">It is the impressive Tudor architecture of Stratford, UK&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">which makes it rather special,&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">olde English tearooms abound,&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">and you could happily wandered around for days admiring the setting&#8230;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><br \/><\/span><b psa_not_processed=\"\" style=\"font-size: medium; text-align: justify;\"><span psa_not_processed=\"\" style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"color: red;\">&#8220;I like this place and willingly could waste my time in it&#8221; &#8211; As You Like It (Act II, Scene IV).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><br \/><b psa_not_processed=\"\" style=\"font-size: medium; text-align: justify;\"><span psa_not_processed=\"\" style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"color: red;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-y-eoLqCn0zo\/UzOMW1m5hLI\/AAAAAAAACGo\/zZR9pOrirxU\/s1600\/SUA1.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\"  style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-y-eoLqCn0zo\/UzOMW1m5hLI\/AAAAAAAACGo\/zZR9pOrirxU\/s1600\/SUA1.jpg?resize=640%2C442\" height=\"442\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Stratford-Upon-Avon, UK Public house<br \/><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #666666; text-align: start;\"><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"line-height: 16px;\">So off on the other side of the world, Aussie Stratford has one Avon hotel and bistro&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 16px;\">with a rather uninspiring mostly Chinese menu,&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"line-height: 16px;\">but what they lose in setting and Michelin stars <\/span><br \/><span style=\"line-height: 16px;\">they more than make up for in&nbsp;humour. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"line-height: 16px;\">Here is the sign on the outside&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #666666; text-align: start;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"line-height: 16px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-kSLxNOQzl2U\/UzOZmrACwUI\/AAAAAAAACG4\/XWyMzyAUDFQ\/s1600\/SUA2.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\"  style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-kSLxNOQzl2U\/UzOZmrACwUI\/AAAAAAAACG4\/XWyMzyAUDFQ\/s1600\/SUA2.jpg?resize=432%2C640\" height=\"640\" width=\"432\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Aussie Stratford Upon Avon,<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">And another&#8230;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-bCo8jPOIpHM\/UzYuudJQUeI\/AAAAAAAACJc\/laLMVOJv6VA\/s1600\/SUA11.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\"  style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-bCo8jPOIpHM\/UzYuudJQUeI\/AAAAAAAACJc\/laLMVOJv6VA\/s1600\/SUA11.jpg?resize=410%2C640\" height=\"640\" width=\"410\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><br \/><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">It is a probably a tad unfair to compare these two Stratfords?&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><b style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Times New Roman;\">&#8220;To be, or not to be: that is the question&#8221;. &#8211; Hamlet (Act III, Scene I).<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><b style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Times New Roman;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Aussie Stratford would win hands done on the&nbsp;meteorology&nbsp;front.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\">My visit in 2012 saw the British town flooded!<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><b style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Times New Roman;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Aussie, Stratford clearly likes to piggy back on the fame of it&#8217;s elder sister in the tourism stakes&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><b style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Times New Roman;\">&#8220;Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;&nbsp;<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"background-color: white; color: red;\"><b style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him&#8221;. &#8211; Julius&nbsp;Caesar&nbsp;(Act III, Scene II).<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-GTuX2IW3QwQ\/UzYYJo5LV-I\/AAAAAAAACI8\/esYyaUWhtHs\/s1600\/SUA.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\"  style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-GTuX2IW3QwQ\/UzYYJo5LV-I\/AAAAAAAACI8\/esYyaUWhtHs\/s1600\/SUA.jpg?resize=640%2C640\" height=\"640\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Aussie Stratford town views<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">There is an ideal opportunity for all Stratfords to celebrate,<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">&nbsp;as next month is the&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">450th anniversary of the birth of&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">world&#8217;s most famous playwright,<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">on 23rd April in 1564.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">You could always join us to visit the town for the upcoming Aussie<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stratfordshakespeare.com.au\/about-us\/\">Shakespeare On The River Festival<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Let&#8217;s Go!<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Maybe if someone could remember to put some new batteries in their MP3 players and then the town will be ready!<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;\"><b>\u201cAll&#8217;s well if all ends well.\u201d&nbsp;<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;\">\u2015&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/947.William_Shakespeare\" style=\"background-color: white; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;\">William Shakespeare<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: start;\">\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-h5b_l2AGc1s\/UzYiS_XAtmI\/AAAAAAAACJM\/YuSZDO-NmYQ\/s1600\/2014%2BFestival%2BProgram%2BPage%2B1.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\"  style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-h5b_l2AGc1s\/UzYiS_XAtmI\/AAAAAAAACJM\/YuSZDO-NmYQ\/s1600\/2014%2BFestival%2BProgram%2BPage%2B1.jpg?resize=640%2C464\" height=\"464\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><i><span style=\"color: red;\"><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;\">I hope you have enjoyed my little tour around the two Stratfords that I know,&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/i><br \/><i><span style=\"color: red;\"><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;\">Do you have a Stratford near you?<\/span><\/span><\/i><br \/><i><span style=\"color: red;\"><span style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Or maybe I should just finish now&#8230;?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/i><br \/><i><span style=\"color: red;\"><span style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"color: red;\"><span style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"color: red;\"><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;\"><b>\u201cYou speak an infinite deal of nothing.\u201d&nbsp;<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/i><br \/><i><span style=\"background-color: white; color: red; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;\">\u2015&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/947.William_Shakespeare\" style=\"background-color: white; color: red; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;\">William Shakespeare<\/a><span style=\"color: red;\"><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;\">,<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; color: red; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/work\/quotes\/2682703\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">The Merchant of Venice<\/a><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><b style=\"background-color: black; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #e0e3ef; font-family: Times New Roman;\">&#8220;Brevity is the soul of wit&#8221;. &#8211;&nbsp; Hamlet&nbsp;Quote (Act II, Scene II).<\/span><\/span><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-lhiWqCuqcpI\/UwrBzHMprUI\/AAAAAAAAB7w\/a1Kz66l567Q\/s1600\/lww_2.png\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\"  style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-lhiWqCuqcpI\/UwrBzHMprUI\/AAAAAAAAB7w\/a1Kz66l567Q\/s1600\/lww_2.png?resize=320%2C106\" height=\"106\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">Linking with <a href=\"http:\/\/ourworldtuesdaymeme.blogspot.com.au\/\">Our World Tuesday.<\/a> With thanks to our hosts<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pilskalns.blogspot.com\/\" style=\"color: #4d469c; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;\">Arija<\/a>,<span style=\"color: #2b2670;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><strong style=\"color: #2b2670; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gattinawritercramps.blogspot.com\/\" style=\"color: #4d469c; 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text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-9zebJYOdRvU\/UzqgagNXH7I\/AAAAAAAACKI\/SpNMuC-TnMs\/s1600\/Our%2BWorld.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\"  style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-9zebJYOdRvU\/UzqgagNXH7I\/AAAAAAAACKI\/SpNMuC-TnMs\/s1600\/Our%2BWorld.jpg?w=1170\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">Linking with&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/jennymatlock.blogspot.com.au\/\">Alphabe Thursday&nbsp;<\/a>S is for Stratford<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">Thank you to Jenny Matlock<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-fBsrjoBfw8A\/UzQYbacF_MI\/AAAAAAAACIA\/EjDjoA07K3s\/s1600\/jennysidebar_button_THURS-2.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\"  style=\"margin-left: 1em; 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