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5 OF THE MOST ROMANTIC CITIES IN EUROPE

December 3, 2012 8 comments

I’m not a romantic. But Europe has made me feel romantic. The right environment can send you to the lofty heights of enrapture. There are places that move you from exhilaration to exhilaration, sweeping up everything in your wake, blasting through the town without barely stopping for a breath. I don’t think there’s a greater

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MEET THE STREET PERFORMERS OF LONDON’S SOUTH BANK

November 28, 2012 6 comments

I want to glide and be lithe and graceful; I want to be a street performer and create the most natural yet unnatural movements in the world. A man stands on another man’s head and they both start juggling. Surely the man balancing on top of his friend’s head would tumble to the pavement after

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CELEBRATE YORKSHIRE TALES ON NATIONAL POETRY DAY

October 3, 2012 Reply

What do Ted Hughes, Alan Bennett, W H Auden, Tony Harrison, Simon Armitage and the Bronte sisters have in common? Besides the glaringly obvious answer that they are all famous writers, the answer I’m looking for is Yorkshire. All of these writers were born in Yorkshire, and have used their birthplace as the setting to

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A JOURNEY TO COASTAL ENGLAND – FLAMBOROUGH HEAD

August 26, 2012 2 comments

Again, taking advantage of my girlfriends travel website, I have to decided to write (or rather forced to write…ahem) about a day trip myself and a couple of friends went on sometime during the summer last year to Flamborough Head.   Flamborough is located on the Yorkshire coast of England, between the Filey and Bridlington

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SCULPTURE PARKS: MAKING ART MORE ACCESSIBLE

August 24, 2012 Reply

Taking your child to a museum is almost as bad as taking a screaming baby on a plane Museums can often be stereotyped as being boring and not child friendly. This is understandable – nobody wants a screaming child in a museum, least of all your own child. As one friend once said, ‘taking your child

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WHITE SCAR CAVES

August 9, 2012 4 comments

Caves have always fascinated me. It is the element of the unknown and their uncanny allure that has captured my imagination ever since I was a little child. When David Attenborough explored caves in his Planet Earth series, it blew me away.  With the aid of leading geologists, and an adventurous camera crew, the world’s

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EXPLORING INGLETON’S WATERFALL TRAIL

August 7, 2012 2 comments

My friend Liam and I decided to drive to Ingleton, located in the Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire.  As a child, I had visited Ingleton on numerous occasions; either on school trips, or family outings, so seemed a great place to relive some old nostalgia. The Ingleton Waterfalls Trail was my fondest memory, so we parked

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A TRIP TO YORKSHIRE SCULPTURE PARK

June 13, 2012 7 comments

Yorkshire Sculpture Park has the perfect combination of nature and art. Throughout the year the park hosts exhibitions from some of the world’s leading artists, and for those of you who are familiar with the 20th Century Spanish artist Joan Miro, you may like to know his work is being currently exhibited here (YSP brings a little

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MALHAM COVE IN PICTURES

May 28, 2012 8 comments

Malham Cove in North Yorkshire is part of the famed scenery of the Yorkshire Dales. The cove is a natural limestone formation; its 260ft high cliff face starkly contrasts with its surrounding landscape of gentle, green valleys criss-crossed with dry-stone walls. If you follow some cobbled stone steps located left of the cove, this leads

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A BRONTE JOURNEY THROUGH HAWORTH

May 26, 2012 Reply

Haworth is best visited on a sunny day when lambs are racing around their mothers and the moors give birth to a landscape of blue skies and green flora, or on a crisp, wintery day as the moors become still and silent; evoking the isolated setting of Emily Brontë’s Gothic novel Wuthering Heights. Since I’m

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