{"id":2867,"date":"2010-04-02T13:53:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T03:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/?p=2867"},"modified":"2010-04-02T13:53:22","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T03:53:22","slug":"stratford-on-avon-warwickshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/england\/stratford-on-avon-warwickshire","title":{"rendered":"All&#039;s Well that Ends Well &#8211; Well Not Really&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float: right;\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-1009507070974015\";\r\ngoogle_alternate_ad_url = \"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/google_adsense_script.html\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\ngoogle_ad_format = \"300x250_as\";\r\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\r\n\/\/2007-06-30: TSBlog 300x250\r\ngoogle_ad_channel = \"2928184950\";\r\ngoogle_color_border = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_bg = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_link = \"FF6600\";\r\ngoogle_color_text = \"000000\";\r\ngoogle_color_url = \"339933\";\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\n  src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>It seems that in <strong>Shakespeare Country<\/strong> all is not well. The tourist information centre in William Shakespeare&#8217;s home town has closed its doors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Shakespeare Country&#8221;, which runs the tourist information centre, is a partnership between the private company South Warwickshire Tourism and two councils. \u00a0 Stratford-on-Avon District Council has decided not to renew its funding of Shakespeare Country, causing it to close.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2870\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/travelsignposts.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/GB_0133.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2870\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2870\" title=\"GB_0133\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/GB_0133.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/GB_0133.jpg?resize=150%2C150 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/GB_0133.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2870\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shakespeare&#39;s house in Stratford<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Stratford upon Avon<\/strong> is one of the more popular tourist destinations in England with around four million visitors each year, so one would ask where is the sense in shutting down its tourist information office?<\/p>\n<p>Visitors to Shakespeare Country are currently being directed to an alternative information &#8221;office&#8221; at the town&#8217;s leisure centre, which is adjacent to the council-owned tourist information centre.\u00a0\u00a0  The council has stated that it was fully committed to tourism and aimed to reopen a tourist information centre in Stratford as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Truth will come to light<\/em> <\/strong>as to what&#8217;s going on in Shakespeare Country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that in Shakespeare Country all is not well. 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