Blog | Reasons to go North

Posted by reasons on Dec 20, 2015 in Blog, Cumbria, Slider Blogs, Walking | Comments Off on Wet and Watery Weather

Floods have dominated many lives in Cumbria and the North West recently. Cumbria is OPEN, please come and spend your money to help those...

Posted by reasons on Dec 13, 2015 in Blog, Cumbria, Slider Blogs, Walking | Comments Off on Tarns and Waterfalls

This week will be remembered for the weather. Even on the southern edge of Cumbria my village was cut off by flooding. Houses no...

Posted by reasons on Dec 7, 2015 in Blog, Elsewhere, Other Places, Slider Blogs, Tours and Itineraries | Comments Off on Montmartre and Le Marais

Breakfast in Montmartre. It was I remembered. Though my paper blog from my 19th year also reminds me it was summer with pictures of...

Posted by reasons on Dec 7, 2015 in Blog, Elsewhere, Other Places | Comments Off on Paris St Germain

Staying in the left bank Latin Quarter another easy morning stroll to St Germain, where J P Sartre and Samuel Beckett once lingered. Now...

Posted by reasons on Dec 7, 2015 in Blog, Elsewhere, Other Places, Photos, Slider Blogs, Tours and Itineraries | Comments Off on Gardens and Galleries

Never again will I look at Degas ballerinas eyes and imagine innocence. Learning that for the less successful the corps de ballet was a...

Posted by reasons on Dec 7, 2015 in Blog, Elsewhere, Other Places, Slider Blogs, Tours and Itineraries | Comments Off on Four Days in Paris

Paris planned before the attacks. I heard the news driving up the M6 early the morning following. Shocked. There but by the grace of...