Haworth, ENGLAND – Because words cannot suffice, a video essay is enclosed herein. Yet, somehow, the visual medium transplanted through the annals of the Internet also do not serve such a wild place justice. To walk on these paths is to imagine oneself in the Brontës’ shoes, and to truly see how they were inspired …
Category Archives: England
Postcard from Oxford
OXFORD, England – The day is appropriately gloomy for a train ride from London to Oxford. Light conversations seem to trend towards intellectual the closer we get to Oxford. From the station, buses head towards downtown, where buildings progressively gain character. Pretty soon, we are far from warehouses and immersed completely in edifices of a …
Postcard from St. Ives
CORNWALL, UK – At the bottommost of the United Kingdom sits an area where narrow roads wind through cornfields with cautious abandon. The winds whip the uninitiated around, the water roiling with a tempestuous nature that the English Currents do not fully describe. The clouds in the distance never cease. With almost absolute certainty, they …
Postcard from Brent
BRENT, England – The neighborhood as dusk sets is quiet. In the daytime, young people sprawl across the region, hanging about. There is a sense of newness in this particular neighborhood that has ceased to exist elsewhere in London. The neighborhood of Brent is a microcosm of northwest London. Few out-of-towners really visit this part …
Postcard from Bath
BATH, ENGLAND – There is only one way to gain the immersive feeling one has of strolling into one of Jane Austen’s novels, and that is to enter by way of Bath. Bath, named after the baths of Roman times one can take in the vicinity, is a countryside where a myriad of possible activities …