{"id":3081,"date":"2026-01-14T22:22:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T22:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianregency.com\/blog\/?p=3081"},"modified":"2026-01-14T22:22:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T22:22:38","slug":"similarities-found-between-modern-day-vacations-regency-vacations-by-susan-karsten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/14\/similarities-found-between-modern-day-vacations-regency-vacations-by-susan-karsten\/","title":{"rendered":"Similarities Found Between Modern-day Vacations &#038; Regency Vacations ~ by Susan Karsten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In researching what Regency folk did on their trips to vacation towns, I was surprised how well I could relate to what they did. Some of it reminded me of trips to places like Minocqua, Wisconsin.<\/p><div id=\"vanes-930266694\" class=\"vanes-content vanes-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-top: 2px;margin-right: 2px;margin-bottom: 2px;margin-left: 2px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/fireswordandsea.htm\" aria-label=\"Fire Sword &amp; Sea\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FireSwordSea_HC-scaled.jpg?fit=1706%2C2560&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Fire Sword &amp; Sea\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FireSwordSea_HC-scaled.jpg?w=1706&ssl=1 1706w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FireSwordSea_HC-scaled.jpg?resize=200%2C300&ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FireSwordSea_HC-scaled.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FireSwordSea_HC-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1152&ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FireSwordSea_HC-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C1536&ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FireSwordSea_HC-scaled.jpg?resize=1365%2C2048&ssl=1 1365w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FireSwordSea_HC-scaled.jpg?w=1280&ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" width=\"569\" height=\"853\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n<figure style=\"width: 222px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ4Uz9v4WIhk0qMbJ8pNLgxXU0UPZDi6Q7EA6c7b_6EQ8jrKWSS-5YsQ8WU\" width=\"222\" height=\"146\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">downtown Minocqua, a popular tourist town in WI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Because when you&#8217;re there, staying in a rustic cabin or resort on a nearby lake, you do a lot of the same things that Regency vacationers did. Bored, or having a cloudy day, we go into town and visit: the library, the coffee shop, perhaps a theater&#8217;s open somewhere. One might buy clothes (t-shirts nowadays), or hats (caps, visors), or a newspaper.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 192px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTGgAK53c3RvV3or2DSI9uW7c8g2Nv_lS8oWAjfnvXawWm8h3r_\" width=\"192\" height=\"148\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sydney Gardens of Bath held a grotto, a falls, a ruined castle, an echo and a labyrinth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Active people took walks, made rendezvous, picnics, tours, visited waterfalls, paid to enter local attractions, went to dances and concerts, and out to breakfast. I&#8217;ve done all those activities on vacation.<\/p>\n<p>It would seem our vacations aren&#8217;t as completely different as we may have thought.<\/p>\n<p><em>What&#8217;s your favorite vacation activity? Do you go to resort\/vacation communities?<\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"rop\"><small>Originally posted 2013-06-07 10:00:00. <\/small><\/p><div id=\"vanes-1996003199\" class=\"vanes-after-content vanes-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-top: 3px;margin-right: 3px;margin-bottom: 3px;margin-left: 3px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/SubstackAd.png?fit=1080%2C1350&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Listen to the Write of Passage Weekly Podcast\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/SubstackAd.png?w=1080&ssl=1 1080w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/SubstackAd.png?resize=240%2C300&ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/SubstackAd.png?resize=819%2C1024&ssl=1 819w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/SubstackAd.png?resize=768%2C960&ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" width=\"540\" height=\"675\"   \/><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In researching what Regency folk did on their trips to vacation towns, I was surprised how well I could relate to what they did. Some of it reminded me of trips to places like Minocqua, Wisconsin. Because when you&#8217;re there, staying in a rustic cabin or resort on a nearby lake, you do a lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,127,10,11,253],"tags":[274,579,565,252,29,209,587,273],"class_list":["post-3081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-day-in-the-life","category-entertainment","category-holiday","category-seasons","category-travel","tag-bath-england","tag-entertainment","tag-history","tag-holiday-2","tag-regency-england","tag-susan-karsten","tag-travel","tag-vacation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3081"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3087,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081\/revisions\/3087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}