January made an auspicious start to the new year for Hidden Lakeland, with the launch of an exciting new partnership with English Lakes Hotels, for whom I’m now offering tailored tours for Japanese visitors direct from their website. You can read more about the partnership with English Lakes in a press release featured in the…
このお正月休み（日本の正月は12月31日から1月4日まで）は英国にいらっしゃいますか？年末年始の休暇は嬉しいですが。。。
Are you in the UK for a winter break this O-shogatsu (Japanese New Year, from December 31 to January 4), happy to be on holiday, but missing some of the festivities of home – Nengajo, Joyo-no-kane, Hatsumode and O-sechi-ryōri? If so, please take comfort in a rather British New Year’s custom, by heading out on…
レイク・ディストリクト（湖水地方とその周辺）に冬の間は人がいなくなるということが遠い昔のことになってしまいました。むしろ夏の混雑のあとの国立公園は。。。
And that’s a cause for celebration, not dismay. Long gone are the days when the Lake District emptied over the winter. Instead, with the national park quieter and more itself again after the hustle and bustle of summer, it’s a great time to come. First, autumn, the “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness” (John Keats)…
Celebrating Great Landscapes Week from Saturday 3 August to Friday 9 August 2019, landscape charity Friends of the Lake District reminded us that although Great Landscapes bring us opportunities to improve our physical, spiritual and mental well-being “they are also under threat and, in our busy lives, we can take for granted the true beauty…
2019年8月3日（土）から8月9日（金）まで開催されたグレート・ランドスケープ・ウィークでは、景観チャリティーを行う団体、フレンド・オブ・ザ・レイク・ディストリクトが私たちに気がつかせてくれました。
ジョゼフ・マロード・ウィリアム・ターナーが描いた『バターミア湖：カンバーランドのクロマック湖の一部 にわか雨』（1798作）は 、バターミア湖に浮かぶ小さな船と、一筋の光が。。。
J.M.W. Turner’s Buttermere Lake, with Part of Cromackwater, Cumberland, a Shower (1798) shows a tiny boat bobbing on Buttermere with a single ray of light cracking through dark and somber clouds over Crummock Water, glimpsed in the distance. Here is the hand of god in nature, where nature is majestic, awe-inspiring, and Romantic with a…
Levens Hall reopened to the public on 7 April 2019 after its annual winter break. As one of the more than twenty volunteer gardeners helping out at Levens Hall, I love nothing more than to get into the garden when it’s closed to help get it ready for the spring. There’s certainly plenty to do…