Posts Tagged ‘ England ’

I do love riding in England. Where else could you find yourself pedalling along a picturesque country lane, all hedgerows and sheep grazing in the meadows, then look up to see a mediaeval gate just sitting there, all on its own in the countryside, an evocative ruin brooding in the dampness of a cold...
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Being the sort of fellow who likes to have a little pomp with his circumstance, I’m stabling my bicycles for a couple of days and heading up to London with the wife and kids to see some of the celebrations for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. It’s not often an English monarch manages to log...
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There are days when I wonder why I ever moved to England, when I decide this is a crazy place to live: stressful, crowded, expensive, and mindlessly, exuberantly bureaucratic. But then I slip away down the lanes on my bicycle on fine warm spring mornings such as this, with the last of the season's...
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