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Anonymous Woman's Travel Diary, 1933 (England)

July 10 About. 11 a.m took Wye Valley Trip on a bus. Stopped first at Monmouth to see amazing museum of Lord Nelson's things...then on to Tintern Abbey. Ate lunch first near the Abbey (monastery or convent for monks or nuns), then went all over the grounds with a very amusing guide, who showed us a bunch of interesting things. Then went on down to the George Hotel for tea.Then came up the same way through Wye Valley, arriving at about 6 p.m.

July 12. At 11 a.m, took a trip with 2 ladies from home. To Abergavenny, Ate our lunch in the grounds of Normandy (11th - 12th century, in Romanesque, with curved arches) Castle-ruins with fine view. Part of it is now a hotel. At 2 i went on to Llanthony Abbey ruins (transition Norman)-through the Black Mountains (beautiful drive) to Kilpeck, Norman church with elaborate sculptures. Very fine sculptured doorway then had tea in the garden at the inn near the church. Went home at about 6 p.m, then I walked up to the Royal Hotel and went into the garden.

October 4th. Our last day in Antwerp. In the morning //I w//ent to the National Museum of Scotland there where many of Rubens Pictures, then i took the taxi to Mt. Calvary and a cave like Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem and outside Rubens pictures "scourging of Christ".

Travels of Anonymous Woman in England, in the Wye Valley, Antwerp, and Belgium in 1933.