Hallstatt, Brontë Biopic, Depression-Era Travel, Cover Reveals & More: Endnotes 25 June

Hallstatt, Brontë Biopic, Depression-Era Travel, Cover Reveals & More: Endnotes 25 June

Friday, 25 June, 2021

Every Friday, we celebrate the weekend — and all the reading and relaxing and daydreaming time ahead — with Melissa's favorite book- and travel-related links of the week. Why work when you can read fun stuff?!

This post is part of our Endnotes series.

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That’s the village of Hallstatt in Austria, perched on the shore of Hallstatt Lake. It has pretty much everything you could ask for in a fairy tale summer getaway: 16th-century Alpine houses, cafés with views overlooking the lake, boat rides on the lake, cobbled alleys, an ossuary, a salt mine, hiking trails, a waterfall, and a funicular railway to whisk you above the rooftops. {more}

  • Handy advice for your next dinner party: tips for proper etiquette at the dining table of a manor house.

  • This abandoned German ballroom would be the perfect venue for an off-kilter circus (or roller derby).

  • Sure, you’re probably on a first-name basis with Agatha (Christie), Dorothy (L. Sayers), and maybe even Dame Ngaio (Marsh). But have you read the sharp writing of Elizabeth Bowen?!

  • Prevailing opinion is that the 1937 film Ready, Willing, and Able is only a so-so musical. But everyone loves this tap-dancing scene on a giant typewriter.

  • This art nouveau house is truly fab.

  • A little-known facet of the New Deal is fascinating and left behind remarkable artifacts: The Rich, Weird, and Frustrating World of Depression-Era Travel Guides. ‘The American Guides were unusual not only for their shaggy opulence and Americana maximalism, but also for their source of funding: the federal government.’

  • Dialect coach Erik Singer is a tour guide to different accents across English-speaking North America.

  • A bedroom in a 16th-century bell tower?! Yes, please. (You need to see this abandoned church that was converted into a dreamy home.)

  • The highest railway in America — The Broadmoor Manitou and Pikes Peak Cog Railway in Colorado — is back on track. The ride up Pikes Peak, in newly-cushioned comfort, offers spectacular views. And the red train cars are so cute!

  • When art and sports collide… — a look at football, running, tennis, and croquet, captured in fine art.

  • Victoria Schwab revealed the cover of her upcoming novel Gallant; I can’t wait to read it: ‘The story of a girl haunted by ghouls and a garden wall and the thing that waits beyond in this standalone novel in the vein of Crimson Peak + Secret Garden.’

  • Also very excited about the cover reveal for Deanna Raybourn’s seventh (!) Veronica Speedwell adventure An Impossible Imposter.
 

May you find a new way to accomplish an old trick.

Top image courtesy of Creative Travel Projects/Shutterstock.

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