The sun may have set, but England's dusk is full of stars.
Introduction
The sun may have set, but England's dusk is full of stars.
Until recently England was generally thought of as a gentle, fabled land freeze-framed sometime in the 1930s, home of the post office, country pub and vicarage. It's now better known for vibrant cities with great nightlife and attractions, contrasted with green and pleasant countryside.
From Stonehenge and Tower Bridge to Eton and Oxford, England is loaded with cherished icons of past eras. But it also does modernity with a confidence and panache left over from its days in the never-setting sun. Fashion, fine dining, clubbing, shopping - England's rates with the world's best.
'In England, wit is at least a profession, if not an art.' - Friedrich Von Schlegel
Geography: England is no more than 29km (18mi) from France across the narrowest part of the English Channel. Much of England is flat or low-lying. In the north is a range of hills, known as the Pennines; to the west are the Cumbrian Mountains and the Lake District. South of the Pennines is the heavily populated Midlands, and the southwest peninsula, known as the West Country, has moors with granite outcrops, good dairy farming and a rugged coastline. The rest of the country is known as the English Lowlands, a mixture of farmland, low hills, an industrial belt and the massive city of London. England's national parks cover about 7% of the country and include Dartmoor, Exmoor, the Lake District, the Peak District, the Yorkshire Dales, the North York Moors, the New Forest, the Broads and Northumberland. English national parks are not all wilderness areas - they contain roads and villages - but they provide the perfect antidote to the hectic pace of many cities.
The sun may have set, but England's dusk is full of stars.
Until recently England was generally thought of as a gentle, fabled land freeze-framed sometime in the 1930s, home of the post office, country pub and vicarage. It's now better known for vibrant cities with great nightlife and attractions, contrasted with green and pleasant countryside.
From Stonehenge and Tower Bridge to Eton and Oxford, England is loaded with cherished icons of past eras. But it also does modernity with a confidence and panache left over from its days in the never-setting sun. Fashion, fine dining, clubbing, shopping - England's rates with the world's best.
'In England, wit is at least a profession, if not an art.' - Friedrich Von Schlegel
Geography: England is no more than 29km (18mi) from France across the narrowest part of the English Channel. Much of England is flat or low-lying. In the north is a range of hills, known as the Pennines; to the west are the Cumbrian Mountains and the Lake District. South of the Pennines is the heavily populated Midlands, and the southwest peninsula, known as the West Country, has moors with granite outcrops, good dairy farming and a rugged coastline. The rest of the country is known as the English Lowlands, a mixture of farmland, low hills, an industrial belt and the massive city of London. England's national parks cover about 7% of the country and include Dartmoor, Exmoor, the Lake District, the Peak District, the Yorkshire Dales, the North York Moors, the New Forest, the Broads and Northumberland. English national parks are not all wilderness areas - they contain roads and villages - but they provide the perfect antidote to the hectic pace of many cities.
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