Trips for 2027 and 2028
Twice Told StoriesFrom May 2027, a small group of women reads, watches and listens together online: books, poetry, films, music and storytellers, with two video calls a month, just for the group. In October we spend seven nights in North Yorkshire visiting the places in those stories, and one night in London. Hosted by Stacy and Taryn.
The Essentials
| Dates | Saturday 2 to Sunday 10 October 2027. Eight nights: seven in North Yorkshire, one in London. Fly out from the US on Friday evening and you're home on Sunday, so it takes five days of leave. |
| Where we meet | King's Cross station, London, at noon on Saturday 2 October. We take the 12:40 train to Yorkshire together. On Sunday 10 October we take you to Heathrow. |
| Group | Ten women, plus your two hosts. Two more places are available for friends or partners sharing a room. Women only. |
| Hosts | Stacy and Taryn, with you the whole week. Stacy lived in Killinghall, just outside Harrogate, for three years. |
| Before you go | From May 2027: books, poetry, films, music and storytellers, with two video calls a month, just for the group. |
| Price | Room of your own: $9,050 (third floor), $9,250 (second floor) or $9,450 (first floor). The house has no lift, so higher rooms cost less. Two friends or partners sharing a room: $7,850 each. There is no single supplement: your own room is the standard price. |
| Early booking | Book early and take $500 off. We'll announce the cut-off date to the waiting list first. |
| Included | All eight nights, breakfast every day, lunch and dinner from the first day to the closing dinner, the minibus and trains during the trip, entry fees and private tours, wine at the closing dinner, the reading months, and the Sunday transfer to Heathrow. |
| Not included | Flights, getting from the airport to King's Cross, the UK travel permit (ETA, about £20), drinks other than at the closing dinner, and anything you choose to do in your free afternoon in York. |
| Walking | 8,000 to 15,000 steps a day, often on cobbles, worn steps and muddy paths. Bedrooms are up at least one flight of stairs with no lift. This trip isn't suitable for anyone with limited mobility. |
| Sign-ups | Open until August 2027, while places last. |
How It Works
On most group tours you meet everyone at the airport. This trip starts five months earlier. From May 2027 we immerse the group in the story online: books, some poetry, and a few film nights where everyone presses play at the same time from home. There are two video calls a month, just for the group. By October you'll know the people you're travelling with.
Most people on trips like this come on their own, and the reading months are designed for exactly that. You won't be meeting strangers at the first dinner.
You can still join after May. You'll have a shorter run-up, and the group will help you catch up. Sign-ups are open until August 2027.
The five books aren't announced yet. One is settled: there's a Brontë, and you'll read it before we visit the house where the Brontës wrote.
Optional extra: Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Christie published it in June 1926; six months later she disappeared for eleven days and was found in a Harrogate hotel. We spend an afternoon in Harrogate, so it's a good one for the plane.
The Week
We stay in one historic house in North Yorkshire for seven nights and take day trips from there. Along the way we follow several women who lived and wrote on their own terms: the Brontës at Haworth, Lady Anne Clifford at Skipton Castle, Anne Lister in York (where she and Ann Walker took communion together in 1834), and the women who worked in the Saltaire mills. Six of the days, in short:
The Brontë Parsonage Museum, the house where the Brontës wrote their novels, then an easy walk on the moor behind it. We arrive on the Keighley and Worth Valley heritage railway, and stop at Skipton Castle on the way home.
The largest monastic ruins in England, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. We visit once in daylight and again at night for Fountains by Floodlight, when the ruins are lit up and a choir sings.
Across the North York Moors to Whitby, where St Hilda ran an abbey in the 7th century and Bram Stoker set Dracula's arrival in England. The abbey, the 199 steps, and fish and chips by the harbour.
A private tour of Castle Howard, where Brideshead Revisited was filmed. Then York: lunch together at Bettys, York Castle Museum, a free afternoon (the Minster, the Shambles, the bookshops), and dinner together.
A morning walk in Knaresborough above the River Nidd, then Harrogate: afternoon tea at the original Bettys, which opened there in 1919, and an evening at the Victorian Turkish Baths (1897) in a women-only session.
The train to London for a last night in Bloomsbury: the British Museum, then the closing dinner. On Sunday we take you to Heathrow.
Join the waiting list and the full itinerary opens straight away: every day, what's included and what isn't, and answers to common questions.
A Note From Stacy
In the summer of 1994 I sat on the grass at Fountains Abbey one evening with friends, with a picnic, listening to a choir. Thirty-two years later it's still one of the clearest memories I have. I lived in Killinghall, just outside Harrogate, for several years, and that evening is a big part of why this trip exists. So we visit Fountains in daylight early in the week and come back for the floodlit evening near the end.
Is This For You?
Questions
No. Most people on trips like this travel alone, and the trip is planned around that. By October you'll have been on two calls a month with the same group since May, and everyone gets a room of their own at the standard price.
A room of your own costs $9,050 to $9,450, depending on the floor (the house has no lift, so higher rooms cost less). Two friends or partners sharing a room pay $7,850 each. Book early and take $500 off; we'll announce the cut-off date to the waiting list first. The price covers all eight nights, breakfast every day, lunch and dinner from the first day to the closing dinner, transport during the trip, entry fees and private tours, the reading months, and the Sunday transfer to Heathrow. Flights, your UK travel permit and most drinks are not included.
The full itinerary opens straight away and we email you the link. After that you'll get occasional emails about this trip. There's no deposit and no obligation, and you can unsubscribe in one click.
We strongly recommend it, because it's how the group gets to know each other. If your spring is already full, ask us about joining later.
Ten women, plus Stacy and Taryn. Two extra places are available only for friends or partners who share a room. The trip is for women only.
Join the waiting list and the full itinerary opens straight away. Nothing is owed and no place is reserved yet; the list is the order in which we contact people.
Join the waiting list →Get the reading list for this trip.