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Photo Feature: Picture Postcards

All photos by Sheila Kumar and subject to copyright.                                       The Alexandra Book Café in Budapest is one of the most ornate coffee shops I`ve been to. All that Baroque  gilded moldings, the glittering chandeliers, the striking…

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Book excerpts: The Lake District, An Anthology compiled by Norman Nicholson

The Lake District An anthology compiled by Norman Nicholson. Penguin Books. 1977.   This delightful composition of prose, poetry and essays, some of them in the Cumbrian dialect,  contains such nuggets  as the ones reproduced below.  Gentleman in a hurry It was customary, I am told, to dash by them (i.e. the Lakes) with an…

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Photo Feature: The Lake District

The Lake District   All photos by Sheila Kumar. All images are subject to copyright.                                                         The view from the train window.            A Turner…

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