I have just discovered LibriVox, which is a site where you can download free recordings of books in the public domain. It’s a great idea – people around the world volunteer to read a section of a book, the recordings are compiled and then made available to download. I already have Wind in the Willows and Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. I used to love being read to and when I was commuting a lot to work I listened to heaps of audio books on CD. I’m loading these Librivox ones onto my iPod so that I can listen to them on the plane in, gulp, four weeks’ time!
It’s been a busy period at work with the Year 12s just having their exams as well as organising a lot of things for next year. I am also plugging away at travel plans. How do you choose which of the 200 Cotswold villages to visit in one day? What’s a good walking tour of Oxford? What time does the Montparnasse Tower close?
We’ll be visiting baby Tristen this weekend, as well as having a dirt-moving working bee in the back yard.
Nanowrimo is making me focus on writing plans, which is good. I don’t want to miss research opportunities when we’re in England.
Toodles!
HI Scott
Tour Montparnasse is open until 2230pm Oct – Mar
Someone recommended to us getting there at around dusk to see the lights change from daylight to evening, and the Eiffel tower view is lovely from the roof. So we did. It was great.
Be warned that public transport away from the area is a bit dodgy if the Metro stops running for any reason (as it did the night we were there) we ended up catching a cab back to our hotel in the 5th near Luxembourg gardens. It wasn’t expensive though.
The trip sounds just great! I’m almost jealous.
By: Laura on November 7, 2008
at 7:02 pm