Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things are connected.
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Archive for the tag 'Vacation'
4 Comments CherryPie on Feb 21st 2021
Filed under Holidays, Taormina 2019
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Magical places are always beautiful and deserve to be contemplated, they represent a bridge between the invisible and the visible.
Paulo Coelho
6 Comments CherryPie on Jan 31st 2021
Filed under Holidays, Sherborne 2019
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Our true home is in the present moment. To live in the present moment is a miracle. The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green Earth in the present moment…
Thich Nhat Hanh
12 Comments CherryPie on Dec 14th 2020
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Stanton Manor 2020
Castle Combe
Castle Combe is a quintessentially English village often named as the ‘prettiest village in England.’ The village sits in the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in north west Wiltshire.
Castle Combe has featured regularly as a film location, most recently in The Wolf Man, Stardust and Stephen Spielberg’s War Horse. It was also used in [...]
20 Comments CherryPie on Dec 3rd 2020
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Sherborne 2019
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
William Blake
4 Comments CherryPie on Nov 30th 2020
Filed under Gardens, Harrogate 2020, Heritage, Holidays
Brodsworth Hall Gardens
Take a stroll in the labyrinthine ‘grand gardens in miniature’ now restored to their Victorian heyday. Enjoy the garden vistas and discover enchanting features like the pleasure grounds with their fountain centrepiece or the classical summerhouse or the fern dell and pet cemetery.
With snowdrops and winter evergreens, spring tulips and laburnum and summer roses and [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Nov 29th 2020
Filed under Harrogate 2020, Heritage, Holidays
Conisbrough Castle
The magnificent keep at Conisbrough Castle is one of South Yorkshire’s most striking landmarks. The castle was the centre of a great Norman lordship, given by William the Conqueror to William de Warenne. The keep was probably built in the 1170s or 1180s. Escaping damage in the Civil War, it became a picturesque ruin in [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Nov 25th 2020
