WORLD OF ENGLISH

Britain has produced some of the world's greatest writers and the British landscape has inspired some of the world's most famous stories, poems, and plays. When it comes to literary greats and the locations they wrote about, you would be hard pushed to find as many as they have in Britain. From Shakespeare’s birthplace at Stratford-upon-Avon to the cobbled alleyways of Charles Dickens’ London, the places in your favourite British stories are just waiting to be explored. And many are just the same today as when our literary greats first experienced them…You could start at Westminster Abbey in London to see Poets’ Corner where some of our greatest writers are buried including Chaucer, Kipling and the poet Tennyson. In Scotland you will discover Robert Burns, Scotland’s national poet and the composer of Auld Lang Syne. And while you are in Scotland, do not miss Edinburgh , the historic Scottish capital where J K Rowling wrote Harry Potter and where crime novelist Ian Rankin sets his Rebus detective stories.