Windermere - Comfortably Numb

Comfortably Numb

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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…

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…

Travel: Lake District, UK

PS: where are you? Blame it on the movies! Don’t blame me, blame Hollywood and the British film industry. In film after film ( The French Lieutenant’s Woman, Miss Potter, Snow White and the Huntsman, Star Wars: The Force Awakens ) they have shown me vistas of the Lake District (LD), with its impossibly green downs,…

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…