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Revision as of 17:23, 3 May 2019
England
- Oh! England, my Lionheart,
I'm in your garden, fading fast in your arms.
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England is the lion's share of the United Kingdom.
We currently live in England (in Wolverhampton) and, in the past, we lived in Sheffield and in Southampton.
- Give me one kiss in apple-blossom.
- Give me one wish, and I'd be wassailing
- In the orchard, my English rose,
- Or with my shepherd, who'll bring me home.
Shires
See the Wikipedia for all of them (but in England only).
Cities
- Flapping umbrellas fill the lanes—
- My London Bridge in rain again.
Towns
Villages
Other places
History
See the History of the British people.
Gallery
This is a gallery of various locations and times, in no particular order, featuring some aspects of our two years or so living in England.
A Queen's Guard in post at Windsor.
A tree lashed by the wind in Cornwall.
The ruins of Nettley abbey.
A path of water in Cornwall.
Fabrice in Portsmouth's castle.
View of Portmoush and its Spinnaker from the castle.
The river Itchen nearby home.
Pendennis Castle.
Visiting a spot from the English Heritage.
Mediterranean lookalike in the South coast of England.
In the Windsor garden.
Cookham church.
On the terrace of Osborne house.
The Thames when not in London.
Fabrice and our car in Exeter.
Julio and Guille waiting outside the Isle of Wight royal garden.
A huge tree in the park.
Cornwall.
Stourhead
and its famous lake.
Cornwall,
near Tintagel,
Remain of a castle from the Arthurian legend.
Elena and Guille in the Isle of Wight.
Arundel castle
A beach of giant stones.
Fields in Hambledon.
Sport in Cambridge.
Peeble beach in Calshot.
Wild poney in the New Forest.
The Victory in Portsmouth.
The Cathedral Cavern in Cumbria, August (2017).
Narrow-boating on the Droitwich canal.
Julia in the British fields.
A river bridge.
Chester cathedral.
The Severn in Shrewsbury.
Julia and Elena enjoying street food on Liverpool's pier head waterfront, March (2018).
Liverpool street.
Manchester street.
Perusing the copies of the books that Mark and Engels were studying in this very alcove of Chetham library in Manchester in April (2018).
The Wightwick manor in Wolverhampton (28 April (2018)).
A bridge to a pathway in a Wolverhampton canal, id.
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