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: Europe
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 Gouda
GOUDA, Netherlands – The market on Thursday presents its namesake – Gouda cheese. The mood is festive as children run around the cobblestoned plaza, and sellers display fresh fruits and vegetables. Fish is served at the cafes that line along the center. Stores typically close early in Gouda, except for these weekend nights when people …
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 Cologne
Cologne, Germany – When one thinks of Cologne, one pictures the cathedral that greets travellers at the doorstep of the Bahn. This mother of all cathedrals, wherein, towering over the tourists who stand out front, gawking at its sheer grandeur. That it was constructed by a human is almost unimaginable. Its range is as tall …
Postcard from Giverny
GIVERNY, France – The watercolors blend together like a taut line flush with the world. The fiery light of day bounces off of the river Epte. Nobody tells you of the bamboos that line the path, but I am telling you now. The people crowd towards the insides, the yellow house, the beating heart. The …
Postcard from Paris
PARIS, FRANCE – The streets in Paris are quiet in the mornings. The bakers are not out and about yet, and folks have spacious seating on the rails. Down the side streets one goes, far from even the shadows of the Eiffel Tower. Click on the map of Paris to follow Mae’s journey through The …
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 …
Postcard from Mount Saint-Michel
SAINT-MICHEL, FRANCE – The tide is low. Saint-Michel, archangel in many religions, stands watch over the island. In times like this, when the tide is low, the dark grey quicksand is revealed to surround the mount. From up top, straight lines of wooded territory delineates the grasslands, where white shells lay ontop of the swaying …
Postcard from Antwerp
ANTWERP – The summer heat was beginning to infiltrate the city. In the evening, the dusk stayed for a long time, hanging just at the horizon. Even in the city, where several floors of houses surrounded every way you looked, you could tell that night was not ready to come. The soccer match was on …
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