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Stratford Upon Avons of the World

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?   Did you know, there is more than one Stratford-Upon-Avon in the world? The most famous, being the birthplace of playwright and poet  William Shakespeare,   but Stratford-Upon-Avon, Victoria,  is Australia's lesser known equivalent... Well sort of... S hall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date . . . .   "Sonnet 18," 1–4 Celebrating connections Stratfords of the World, Victoria When you arrive in Stratford-Upon-Avon, Victoria,  or as the Aussies prefer to call it, Stratford by the river, you notice immediately, how proud the town is to be one of  Stratfords of the World... But apart from a big silver monument to sisterhood, a Shakespeare festival each year, oh and a river called Avon, they are worlds apart... "The course of true love nev...