

Mousertainment Tip: For these or other Disney encounters that are not on your daily Times Guide schedule or My Disney Experience app, don’t forget to check at City Hall or other Guest Relations locations, as Cast Members there can usually find out when a character will appear or show will be performed! It is really wonderful that there are so many locations to visit with the Wonderland characters that each offer such different encounters! 1900 Park Fare also offers a Wonderland Tea Party for children ages 4-12 with Alice and The Mad Hatter as hosts of the party.One dining option where you can Meet & Greet Alice and The Mad Hatter at a character meal is the Supercalifragilistic Breakfast (to be featured here tomorrow!) at the 1900 Park Fare restaurant at this Resort hotel.Alice does Meet & Greets appropriately enough in the United Kingdom pavilion in EPCOT’s World Showcase.Since 2019 I’ve been working part-time in the Bodleian Library where I’ve been cataloguing the bequest of the late Donald Welsh, founder of the English Playing Card Society.One of my best Alice interactions ever was at the UK pavilion at EPCOT. This work necessitated regular training visits to many sub-Saharan African countries and also further afield, to Vietnam, Nepal and Bangladesh – all of which provided rich opportunities to further expand my playing card collection. 2007 I took up a new role as Head of Library Development at the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) to support library development in low-income countries. I began researching and collecting cards in the early 1970s, since when I’ve acquired over 3,330 packs of non-standard cards, mainly from North America, UK and Western Europe, and of course from Russia and the former communist countries.įollowing my retirement from the Bodleian Library in Dec. It was as an undergraduate in Moscow in 1968 that I stumbled upon my first 3 packs of “unusual” playing cards which fired my curiosity and thence my life-long interest. I graduated in Russian and East European Studies from Birmingham University in 1969.
