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)…
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…
This walk from Grasmere begins close to Allan Bank – one of the many houses once lived in by William Wordsworth – before meandering past the bottom edge of Lancrigg Woods through fields of Herdwick sheep and alongside a ghyll up to Easedale Tarn, a wonderful spot for a picnic. Arrive here at the right…
この旅は、グラスミアの町にあるアーラン・バンク（Allan Bank）近くから始まります。そこは、かつて詩人ウィリアム・ワーズワースの住処の１つでした。そこから、曲がりくねり続くランクリッグ・ウッズ（Lancrigg Woods）のそばの道を進み、ハードウィックシープ（Herdwick sheep） がいる牧場を通り抜け、峡谷にそってピクニックに最適なイーズデール・ターン湖（Easedale Tarn）まで進みます。