Rummaging through the heaps of children’s books at the book fair held in Delhi’s Pragati Maidan and finding stacks of titles by writer Enid Blyton, my thoughts reverted to a summer day in England. It transported my mind to those times when we had visited Enid’s former home, the 16th century Old Thatch cottage, wrapped […]
On a rainy summer day, we stepped back into the Victorian era to relive memories of world renowned scientist Charles Darwin and his revolutionary theory of apes to humans – The Origin of Species at his family home – Down House in Kent England. Down House was an early 18th century ‘a good old and […]
Whether it is Christmas time in the snowy landscaped cold winter or the cool summer holiday months, a trip to Canterbury in England is always exceptional. This renowned Church town in England, holds the medieval Canterbury Cathedral. The historical, yet new in its own way, modern city of Canterbury captivates thousands of tourists and pilgrims, […]
Across the sapphire blue of a lake we caught the first stunning view of the 19th century Cragside house on a hill slope and acres of rugged woodland, spectacularly located. We were in Northumberland England and had set out to explore the first home to be lit by hydroelectricity – Cragside house of Lord Armstrong […]
On an annual visit to England I speculated on the aspect of novelty that I could append to it. The answer immediately emerged as I came out of the Windsor Railway Station. I noticed two similar pictures on a Wall – of verdant emerald English landscape, one with a Church in the forefront and the […]
We drove through the beautiful Oxfordshire valley towards ‘the preserved in time’ Chastleton house, the early 17thcentury Jacobean house. The grand ancestry of the magnificent interior house struggled to preserve it for four centuries till it had to be finally sold in 1991 that made the last owner say ‘poverty is a great preservative’ as […]
निरंतर वर्षा हो रही थी, मैंने छतरी के नीचे से सामने देखकर निश्चित किया कि मैं अपने गंतव्य स्थल, माइल एंड टेरेस पर पहुंच गई हूं जो मेरे रुचिकर अंग्रेजी लेखक चाल्र्स-डिकंस् का बर्थ-प्लेस (जन्मस्थल) है। मैं अपने परिवार सहित इंग्लैंड के तटवर्ती नगर पोर्टस्मथ की यात्रा पर आई थी। मेरे सम्मुख, श्वेत घरों पर […]
विस्मययुक्त एवं रहस्यमयी-मेरे सम्मुख व्तिृत विशाल हरे-भरे पठार पर पत्थरों का सर्कल और चारों ओर फैले बर्फ से ढकी पर्वत शृंखलाओं को देखकर, केवल यही दो शब्द मस्तिष्क में आए। हम 4500 वर्ष पूर्व बने कासल रिंग-स्टोन-सर्कल (पत्थरों का गोलाकार) जो इंग्लैंड के लेख डिस्ट्रिक्ट क्षेत्र में स्थित है। कहा जाता है कि रहस्मय रूप […]
Awe inspiring and inexplicable….were the words that crossed my mind at the sight of the vast verdant plateau set in an amphitheatre of mountains in the far distance, a 360 degree view! I was at the 4500 year old Castlerigg Stone Circlein Keswick in Lake District of England – one the mysterious Stone Circles of […]
In the incessant drizzle, I peered from under the umbrella to ascertain that I had reached my destination, Mile End Terrace– the Birthplace of Charles Dickens- the eminent writer of classics like Oliver Twist,Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfieldand many more. I was in Portsmouth, England and was glancing at a typical English street, lined […]