Jaunt with Jane is a Jane Austen themed weekend held in Lyme Regis.

The ultimate Janeite experience, Jaunt with Jane is hosted in the town Jane Austen absolutely adored and featured in Persuasion.

On Jaunt with Jane you will Meet Jane Austen’s relation, Diana Shervington and hear a talk by her as well as meeting with Diana, hearing her stories and seeing the items she has that once belonged to Jane. All this while enjoying a full cream tea in the function rooms used as the Harvilles’ house in the 1990s adaptation of Persuasion on the world famous Cobb Harbour in the cottage.

We Janeites like nothing better than a walk about town and you will have plenty of opportunity on the first of our guided walks during the weekend. You will have a Jane Austen tour of Lyme Regis with renowned and professional guide Natalie Manifold, owner of Literary Lyme Walking Tours. Natalie has many years’ experience as a tour operator and she will lead you around Lyme Regis as Jane Austen knew it.

Discover hidden Lyme Regis locations as you walk in Austen’s footsteps and those of her characters. You’ll also stroll along the Cobb to see the actual, though often disputed, site where Louisa Musgrove fell on the harbor wall.

Visit inns mentioned in Persuasion and the house where Austen stayed. Enjoy Lyme’s stunning sea views, just as Austen did, leading her to write,“A very strange stranger it must be who does not see charms in the immediate environs of Lyme to make him wish to know it better.”

The second of the weekend’s tours will take you to see Pinny, modern day Pinhay, which Jane describes in Persuasion as ‘green chasms between romantic rocks, where the scattered forest-trees and orchards of luxuriant growth declare that many a generation must have passed away since the first partial falling of the cliff prepared the ground for such a state, where a scene so wonderful and so lovely is exhibited, as may more than equal any of the resembling scenes of the far-famed Isle of Wight: these places must be visited, and visited again to make the worth of Lyme understood.

Thus, just as Jane advises, we will visit the ‘Green chasms’ of Pinhay and learn about its role in early 19th century life, as well as the wondrous flora & fauna of this unique place, which is the largest nature reserve in the country and also described as the jungle of the UK.

To find out more and to book a place visit http://jauntwithjane.com