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Archive for April, 2007

In 1816, although only eight kilometers (five miles) from central London, Hampstead was enough of a remote, rural village for poet John Keats (1795-1821) to write the following about a visit there:
“To one who has been long in city pent,
‘Tis very sweet to look into the fair
And open face of Heaven.”
John Keats soon moved to […]

Since our plane landed nice and early we had virtually a whole day left to explore yesterday. The weather was pretty nice, quite sunny when we started, although it clouded over a little and was a little on the cool side, it never got much above 15 degrees Celsius.
Around noon time we hopped on the […]

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