Category: Canterbury to Lausanne

When France gives you rain, drink champagne!

Jennifer A Walters

The Jackdaw sat on the Cardinal’s chair!
        Bishop, and abbot, and prior were there

Richard Harris Barham, ‘The Jackdaw of Rheims’

Her neck being opposed to the Sun wil diuersify into a thousand coulours, more various then the Iris it-self, or that Bird of luno in al her pride; as scarlet, cerulean, flame-coulour, and yealding a flash, like the Carbuncle, with vermilion, ash-coulour, and manie others besides, which haue no name, but as you borrow them from other things.

Henry Hawkins, Partheneia Sacra

Two Princesses, sedentary by condition, age, and taste, are suddenly possessed by a mania for travelling and running about the world. That is singular, but possible.

Chronique de Paris, on the news that the Princesses Adélaïde and Victoire were leaving France on the eve of the Revolution

I saw the evening sun light up a coppice of trees on the side of a hill. It occurred to me then that here was something more beautiful still and the idea formed of building a cathedral with trees

Edmund Blythe, on the formation of his project to create a living memorial to his fallen WW1 comrades-in-arms, 1940

This is well within your capabilities

Jane Smith

Into a gradual calm the breezes sink, 
A blue rim borders all the lake’s still brink

William Wordsworth

That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees,
In some melodious plot
Of beechen green, and shadows numberless,
Singest of summer in full-throated ease.

John Keats, ‘Ode to a Nightingale’

Walking fast is neither sexy not engaging. Nobody notices the people who race around. If you’re walking in heels, you’ve got time.

Christian Louboutin