Francis Bacon’s advices to you, if you are an enthusiastic traveler!

• Traveling, in the younger sort, is a part of Education; in the elder, a part of Experience.
• Before traveling into a country, a person should have some entrance into the language of that country.
• Young men should travel under a tutor, who knows the country very well, so that he may be able to tell them, what things are worthy to be seen in the country, what acquaintances they are to seek and what exercises or discipline that place practices.
• Let the traveler carry a book describing the country where he is travelling, which will be a good key to his inquiry.
• Let him not stay long in one city or town; when he stays in one city or town, let him change his lodging from one part of the town to the another, which is a great part of adamant of acquaintances.
• Let him sequester himself from the company of his own countrymen and diet in such places where there is good company of the nation he travels.
• Let him visit eminent persons in all kinds, which are of great name abroad; that he may be able to tell, “How life agrees with fame”.
• Quarrels should be avoided; they are commonly for Mistresses, Health, Place and Words. A person must be aware how he keeps company with quarrelsome persons, for they will engage him into their own quarrels.
• After returning, maintain correspondence with the acquaintances which are most worth.
• Let him not change his country manners, but prick some flowers that he had learned abroad, into the customs of his own country.

Queen Elizabeth's impact on Shakespeare; it sounds interesting!!

We all would know that William Shakespeare was born at Stratford-upon-Avon to John and Mary Shakespeare in 1564. We also would know that he obtained the patronage of the Queen as a play write. But.. still there are things to be known...

When Shakespeare was eleven years old, there was a great plague in the country. Queen Elizabeth journeyed out of London to avoid the plague's consequences and stayed for several days at Kenilworth Castle near Stratford enjoying "festivities" arranged by her host Lord Leicester. It is probable these events may have made a strong impact on the mind of young William.