In my ongoing research on life in the Regency, it seems as though the Grand Tour was often an equally accepted and respected alternative to university for the nobility. The Grand Tour was basically time spent in France and Italy (maybe the other major capitals of Europe) with a tutor, learning to be cultured, worldly, and refined. Naturally, due to the Napoleonic Wars, the Grand Tour was suspended. #NapoleonRuinsEverything.
But...what if it wasn't suspended? What if, instead of traveling through the Great Capitals of Europe with a tutor, you traveled through the Great Capitals of West Africa, or toured the Great Courts of South East Asia, or any of the other really wonderfully rich and interesting places in our setting?
As a cis gay white male IRL, this is totally not my call to make, and clearly, thi