For tourists travelling in to Cumbria by train, the service from Oxenholme to Windermere provides the first glimpse of the Lake District. This is a short and scenic ride...
Tales of a City Trail
For tourists travelling in to Cumbria by train, the service from Oxenholme to Windermere provides the first glimpse of the Lake District. This is a short and scenic ride...
Whatever time of day or night you first glimpse it, Dubai grabs you, shakes you awake and reminds you that you’re alive. It’s a city that seems like it shouldn’t...
On some of the more picturesque bus routes in the central Lakes, if you can secure the panoramic window seat at the front of the top deck, you are in for a treat as...
Standing at the bus stop can take you off on flights of the imagination. Waiting for a Lakeland bus in Grasmere is more comfortable in the rain if you huddle under the...
Torii Story Beyond the gate lies sacred space. A thousand times. Shinto mountain shrine. Sometimes tourism is more than tourism. You forget the admission charges, the...
Android Love Cuddle an android and you may end up making baby telenoid. The Japanese know the future is robots. You can meet androids in Tokyo, not on the streets (yet)...
Lantern Festival Light has never been so heavy, companionship never so weightless. It started with one man, with one lantern, in one fishing town, somewhere in Japanese...
Toytown Osaka Midnight riverscape. Flyover transformed into night sky scalextrics. We touchdown in Osaka for our first taste of Japan and drive right into the heart of...
Kirstie is the creative force and chief poet in residence of poetinmotion.org She is available for residencies, as a conference poet and wedding poet. She is also co-founder of The Family Adventure Project and a regular contributor to many online travel communities.
