world reviewer
Sophie Edgerton
Would be author and actual journalist - somewhere in the middle as a writer. And lover of beautiful literature.
Sophie Edgerton's activity
- 06 Nov 2009
Sophie Edgerton reviewed Lewes Bonfire Night in South East England, United Kingdom
Lewes combines celebrating the uncovering of the Gunpowder Plot with the anniversary of their burning 17 Protestant martyrs, which took place about 50 years earlier, then they bundle the whole thing up into one huge explosive celebration. As well as bon…"
- 08 Oct 2009
Sophie Edgerton reviewed Roman Amphitheatre of Arles in Arles, France
Arles has been around since the Greeks established a settlement here in the 6th Century BC, but the interesting ruins are the Roman ones, dating from around 100 BC. Ancient Arles was closer to the Mediterranean than modern Arles, so it became an importa…"
Sophie Edgerton reviewed Châteauneuf du Pape in Rhone-Alps, France
Wine vines have been cultivated in the Châteauneuf du Pape region since the 12th Century, mostly by knights, bishops and popes – in fact it was Pope John XXII who was the gave the papal name to the appellation. The most common vines are Gren…"
Sophie Edgerton reviewed Tain l’Hermitage in Rhone-Alps, France
Tain l’Hermitage isn't that much in itself, but when you take into account its twinning with the town of Tournon across the river in the Ardèche region, and which has a nice chateau, and all the surrounding vineyards then it begins to appear…"
- 07 Oct 2009
Sophie Edgerton reviewed Lake Bled in Slovenia
This lake looks like the setting for some kind of fairytale. Maybe Odette from Swan Lake will sail off the waters in the evening, and arrive on the lake's island and visit the church hoping to meet her love, or else the Rapunzel will let her hair down f…"
- 12 Aug 2009
Sophie Edgerton reviewed Lumière Museum in Lyon, France
The Lumière brothers, Louis and Auguste, invented cinema, and for that they deserve their own museum, and a place forever in history. The museum charts their early experiments and goes a little way towards explaining how they did what they d…"
- 26 Jul 2009
Sophie Edgerton reviewed Bogor Botanical Gardens in Indonesia
These gardens are on the road between Jakarta and Yogyakarta, by the presidential palace at Bogor. Built by one of Java's Dutch Governor Generals, and populated with plants but a Dutch botanist, they cover 80 hectares, and were used as a green hous…"
- 23 Jul 2009
Sophie Edgerton reviewed Pasar Badung in Denpasar, Indonesia
These markets are one of 'the things to do' on Bali. Lots of people come here to shop and sit on the beach, and this market has quickly become one of the largest and busiest. But as well as the tourist tat a lot of people come here to accumul…"
Sophie Edgerton reviewed Pura Luhur Batukaru in Bali, Indonesia
The Temple of Luhur Batukaru sits on the forested slope of Bali's second highest volcanoes, just out of Tabanan. Because of the temple's green surrounds it's often referred to as the Garden Temple. This temple was built to protect Bali from e…"
Sophie Edgerton reviewed Jatiluwih Rice Terraces in Bali, Indonesia
Bali's verdant green interior might come as a bit of a surprise on the drive in from the tropical coastline, but there's every chance you're going to run out of words for the colour green on your journey inland heading towards one of the greenest places …"
- 02 Jun 2009
Sophie Edgerton reviewed Notre Dame de Paris in Paris, France
Hugo‘s love of Notre Dame didn‘t start and finish with his story of the hunchback, "Each face, each stone of this venerable monument is not only a page of the history of the country, but also of the history of knowledge and art. Time is the archit…"
- 29 Oct 2007
Sophie Edgerton reviewed Blickling Hall in Norwich, United Kingdom
Anne Boleyn’s ghost haunts Blickling Hall near Aylsham annually, around the anniversary of her May beheading. This haunting is full of all the romance of the best ghost stories and although I haven’t seen Anne myself it is not through want of trying (I …"
- 25 Oct 2007
Sophie Edgerton reviewed Doon Valley (Lorna Doon) in West Country, United Kingdom
Lorna Doon author, Richard D. Blackmore stayed at The Rising Sun Inn, Lynmouth while researching the characters and locations he wanted to use in the book and while no place called Doon Valley existed then, the area around Lank Combe has since pretty muc…"
Sophie Edgerton reviewed James Herriot Country in North East England, United Kingdom
Alf Wight and James Herriot are pretty much one and the same, the author of “All Creatures Great and Small” etc. was a Yorkshire vet practicing out of a surgery at 23 Kirkgate, Thirsk, called Darrowby in the novels, since turned into the “World of James …"
- 24 Oct 2007
Sophie Edgerton reviewed Holly Golightly's Tiffany's 57th Street in New York, United States
Is it too obvious to include Tiffany’s in a list of great literary locations? The thing about Capote’s “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” is that it has created something greater than Tiffany’s ever could. Yes the place is grand and intimidating, but if Holly in…"
Sophie Edgerton reviewed Casino Royale = Estoril Casino in Lisbon, Portugal
Not the best respected of genres, Ian Fleming’s novels about debonair British spy James Bond have had a massive influence on what people now think of as cool (whether you like your martinis stirred, as god intended them, or shaken and bruised ah la James…"
Sophie Edgerton reviewed Chateau d’Usse (Sleeping Beauty's Castle) in Loire Valley, France
For aspiring princesses everywhere this is the place you’re expecting your handsome prince to carry you over the threshold of to live in love and luxury until the end of your days after the tortuous dramas your love initially faced. Conveniently located…"
Sophie Edgerton reviewed The Real Watership Down in South East England, United Kingdom
I grew up with Watership Down, it is one of the few children’s works that treats readers like adults, and though I never paid too much attention to the details of where the action was happening I was pretty interested to come across this website of ordin…"
- 19 Oct 2007
Sophie Edgerton reviewed Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin, Germany
Looking not much more than a garden shed beside a thick line of white paint, it’s only when you think back to old photos of layers of barbed wire lit by floodlights as steam rises from the ground that you see the real Checkpoint Charlie. One of the most…"
Sophie Edgerton reviewed The George and Vulture of Dickens in London, United Kingdom
This is where Dickens’ Mr. Pickwick held court in the after hours during his hearing and where Charles himself was known to be a regular diner (if you’re cynical you may thinks this is some early advertorial sponsorship program from the number of times D…"
Sophie Edgerton reviewed Hamlet's Elsinore (Kronborg Castle) in Copenhagen, Denmark
Hamlet was already a legend when Shakespeare immortalised his story in around 1600 but during Hamlet’s lifetime there probably wasn’t much more than a fort on Kronborg’s site, so real Hamlet probably didn’t lived here. Most people who know about these s…"
- 18 Oct 2007
Sophie Edgerton reviewed Temple Church (The Da Vinci Code) in London, United Kingdom
The fact that this book probably inspired a new wave of literary tourists doesn’t endear it to me, but the beautiful Temple Church in London’s Temple Bar Complex has become a major attraction overnight, which it definitely deserves to be. Known for it’s…"
Sophie Edgerton reviewed Robin Hood's Sherwood Forest in Midlands, United Kingdom
Though a legend (I’m including him in the list of literary characters), Robin Hood is responsible for the popularity of Sherwood Forest which has proven both its rise and downfall. Not as well managed in the last 200 years or so as it should have been…"
Sophie Edgerton reviewed Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood in South East England, United Kingdom
This is one of my most loved literary locations, the bridge at Pooh Corner in the Ashdown Forest (the 100 Acre Wood). This what I want from an experience visiting places in my favourite books, to be able to relive the actions…so naturally I played Pooh …"
Sophie Edgerton reviewed The 'Little House on the Prairie' in Lakes Midwest, United States
This is the house that Pa built, literally. Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote about her “Little House on the Prairie” for her sister, Mary who went blind, painting her a detailed picture for her of what their new house and their families frontier prairie land …"
- 09 Oct 2007
Sophie Edgerton reviewed 221B Baker Street in London, United Kingdom
The funny thing about 221B Baker Street is that it was a fictitious place, an upstairs flat nestled into the foggy, smoggy, noisy streets of London, but because it was set on a real street and many of Doyle’s travelling directions and descriptions are c…"
Sophie Edgerton reviewed Mark Twain's Hannibal in Plains Midwest, United States
Mark Twain used the whole town of Hannibal as a location for his novels. Set on Twain’s Mississippi, Hannibal-esque towns were home to Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn and Becky Thatcher. Some of his locations are direct descriptions of what he saw, buildings in …"
Sophie Edgerton reviewed Thoreau's Walden Pond in US East Coast, United States
Living basically in the woods at Walden Pond inspired Henry David Thoreau to write his classic work on simplification and ‘living deliberately‘ “Walden”, which now draws crowds to the very places he came to for solitude and reflection. There is even a ‘…"
- 06 Oct 2007
Sophie Edgerton reviewed Gatsby's favourite hotel in New York, United States
The Plaza, 768 Park Ave Tom, Jordan, Daisy, Nick and the Great Gatsby get a suite at The Plaza to shelter from the summer heat after their drive up to New York and take some refreshing Mint Juleps while playing out one of the most confronting scenes of …"
Sophie Edgerton reviewed Anne’s Green Gables in Canada
Lucy Maud Montgomery’s well loved book about wilful red headed orphan Anne with an e (as in “of Green Gables”) sends many readers young and old on pilgrimages to Cavendish in the Prince Edward Island National Park around which Anne’s story plays out. T…"
