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#08 – Wonderful walks through almost unspoilt nature. Explore the lush woodlands of North Yorkshire, climb the green hills in the Cotswolds area, take a tour across the craggy Scottish Highlands or the pristine Welsh mountainscape – just to mention some places I’ve already visited – and you’ll get beautiful impressions of the local flora (and fauna, maybe). And it’s always worth to take a closer look – ’cause some of nature’s wonders are rather small.

Heart-shaped yellow lichen on a mountain rock (not photoshopped!)


A tiny Sundew (carnivorous plant), hidden in the moss by the wayside

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#07 – Whisky. I know, nowadays any kind of Whisky is also available in countless online shops and thus could as well be sipped at home. But I just want to believe that this is not the same than having a glass of this amber delight in the land of its origin.

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#06 – The ancient places. I love living and travelling in «Old Europe« – within a distance of a few hundred miles you can discover reams of historic monuments and buildings raised several hundred or even thousand years ago. The image below shows a part of Rievaulx Abbey, the first Cistercian abbey in the north, founded in 1132.

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#05 – The view from the hills. Here: panoramic image from Sutton Bank on the Cleveland Way over Whitestone Cliff, capturing Roulston Scar (left), Hood Hill and the 20,000 year old Gormire Lake (right) that has neither a contributing stream nor an outlet and according to local folklore is bottomless.
www.northyorkmoors.org.uk · www.walkingenglishman.com

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#04 – The British enthusiasm for flowers and gardening. Particularly in rural villages like my current holiday location (North Yorkshire), the gardens, streets and houses are bursting with beds, hanging baskets, boxes and pots full of flowers, plants and twiners. Call me bourgeois, but I like it.

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#03 – The incredible delicious variety of British sausages, e. g. Pork & Sweet Chili Sausages · Pork, Fresh Leek & Chive Sausages · Pork & Fresh Garlic Sausages · Tomato & Basil Pork Sausages · Pork & Apple Sausages with Thyme · Lamb & Redcurrant Sausages · Duck & Sour Cherry Sausages · Old Spot Breed Pork & Sage Sausages · Aberdeen Angus Beef & Black Pepper Chiploatas · Cider & Sage Sausages · Lamb & Coriander Sausages …
Try them from a local supermarket, but if you come across a good butcher, all the better.

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#02 – Real Fish & Chips. Not that dry fat-reduced wimpy stuff offered by most of Continental Europe’s copycats.

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#01 – You get delicious duck eggs at ordinary supermarkets (e.g. Waitrose).

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