Category Archives: England

Cley Walk

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The Top Five of Cley Have you ever been to Cley next the sea? If you have you are surely quite puzzled about the “Top Ten of Cley” in the net. Number 1 for example is Cley beach which is not at all special (although we love it), just a pebble beach like thousand others. …

Samphire – A Mermaid’s Kiss

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Do you know samphire? We bet you don’t. Samphire (Salicornis europaea) – yummy yummy – is also known as sea asparagus or poor man’s asparagus. It’s a wild plant growing in abundance in the saltmarshes where it drowns twice a day. It’s a vegetable of ten to 15 centimeters hight and it’s gathered at our …

The Lake Poets

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The world has to be romanticized to find the natural meaning again Die Welt muss romantisiert werden, so findet man den ursprünglichen Sinn wieder Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg) Novalis wrote this in his fragments, one of the literary forms the Romantic poets liked very much, because the essence of the Romantic is uncertainty as Oscar …

Tea and Tradition

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There are two big Ts in England Tea and Tradition Tea – more than a cuppa Der englische Tee, mehr als nur Tee Let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea Fyodor Dostoyevsky “Notes from the Underground” Teatime – or just “tea” for short – is a holy time in …

Slow Norfolk

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To visit North Norfolk is for me, Dina, always a journey into slowness. Every time I come here I have to get used to that I don’t need to hurry. I have to exercise to walk through the village slowly and to stop the racing monologue in my head. As Laurence Mitchell writes: “Norfolk is …

Unser Ruhepol

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“Amundsen hat den Südpol entdeckt. Peary meint, den Nordpol entdeckt zu haben. Und wir sind die offiziellen Entdecker des Ruhepols”. Dina, Klausbernd, Siri und Selma A rural oasis of tranquillity between salt meadows and the sea makes Cley nex the Sea a place of peacefulness. A calm anchor in life and a good spot to …