Category: United Kingdom
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Snowdonia
Spent the weekend in a fairytale land, chasing fairies through the grass, searching for dragons in the mountains. Wales was a green, grey fantasy, the kind of place that calls you outside, in the rain. First, Tŷ Hyll, the Ugly House, a place with an unknown history. Though, rumor has it, it may have been constructed…
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Sandringham
Sandringham Estate, autumnal apple-picking at the orchards of the Queen’s beloved Norfolk country house. This is the first time I’ve ever been apple picking in England; it’s definitely a much different, more organic experience than apple picking in New England where everything is engineered to entertain. There were no cider donuts or hay bales, just…
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Hitchin Lavender
There’s a lavender field not far from Cambridge, the kind of place you imagine exists in some wild part of southern France on a giant farm somewhere. This was in a small village called Hitchin, a little less than an hour drive. We went early on a cloudy day at the end of the season,…
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Kensington Palace Gardens
Strolling through the palace gardens, being a princess. Typical English things. We came to this place on a warm weekend day just to explore.
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Hunstanton
Hunstanton, a Victorian seaside escape. A red cliff full of fossils. A ship-wreck. A lighthouse that you can sleep in, and a low tide. I drove here spontaneously one Wednesday afternoon. It was just under a two hour drive, and I remember looking at the clock and seeing it was already 1 pm and…
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Cambs Summer
Cambridge summer, fast and fleeting. It arrives out of nowhere, and you swear you won’t take it for granted. But as quickly as it came, you forget that there was ever a time when the sun set before 9:00 pm or rose after 5:00 am. The days are long. If not warm, at least not…
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