Promenading In Regency Costumes All this week the 2011 Jane Austen Festival has been celebrated in the city of Bath in Somerset, England. Hundreds of Jane Austen fans and aficionados dressed in Regency costume kicked off the opening last weekend with a promenade through the streets of Bath. It’s the 11th year that the festival … Read more
These are views of the cathedral city of York in the north of England. The first was taken this month and the second a year and a half ago when the river Ouse burst its banks, as it has done many times. The worst of the most recent floods was in the year 2000 when … Read more
William Blake, poet, visionary, painter, and printer, moved from London at the age of forty three to a cottage in the village of Felpham outside Chichester on the south coast of England. By train today it takes approximately two hours to travel from Chichester to London. The journey is made slightly longer than it otherwise … Read more