I’ve been thinking a lot about childhood during the lockdown, probably because this was when I last had time on my hands. Day after day with nothing to do in the summer beyond figure out how to pass the time. Feeling that I should be doing something, but what? I wake up exhausted, forehead furrowed,…
2020年3月17日、長崎からまりこさんと、娘さん、そしてご家族のお友だちがお越しになり、湖水地方のウィンダミア、グラスミア、ライダルへご案内いたしました。
On 17 March 2020, I guided Mariko-san from Nagasaki together with her daughter and family friend around Windermere, Grasmere and Rydal in the Lake District. Starting with a cruise from Bowness, we enjoyed red squirrels and breath-taking views of Grasmere at Allan Bank before visiting the Wordsworth graves at St Oswald’s Church, then walking the…
Was it a visit or satogaeri (coming home)? I wondered about this over the seven weeks I spent in Japan late last year, having arrived there just in time to watch England lose the last game of the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Tokyo from a hospital room in Kyoto with an old friend recovering…
新年を迎えた１月は、シークレット・レイクランドにとって、幸先の良いスタートとなりました。新たにイングリッシュ・レイクス・ホテルズ・リゾーツ・アンド・ベニューと協力関係を結びました。
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)…