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DARTMOOR Encounter a hiker wearing outdoor clothing with arrows all over it and rejoice, for you’ve spotted a rare sight: an escaped convict from Dartmoor Prison. Probably wise to …
A prudent bluffer should: • Refrain from offering them food – your shapeless cheese and tomato sandwiches won’t feed all of them and you will only encourage demands for …
NATIONAL PARKS Following the kerfuffle in Derbyshire over the Kinder Trespass, the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act created a handful of national parks designed to …
THE ONE TRUE WAY The more astute bluffer will be aware that a footpath does not have to exist on the ground for it to be a legal right …
Whatever it is you are thinking of buying, suggest that you recently saw a review of it in one of the well-known hiking magazines. Something along the lines of: …
Until he was 18, Hector Berlioz lived in the house where, on 11 December 1803, he was born: 69 rue de la Republique, La Cote-Saint-Andre, in the Bas-Dauphine region. …
There is no museum devoted to Alban Berg. But his flat in a Viennese suburb and his Carinthian summer retreat,Waldhaus, on the south side of the Worthersee near the …
Peter Benoit, champion of the Dutch language and the music of the Flemishspeaking people of Belgium, was born on 17 August 1834 in a modest cottage at Markstraat 57 …
BENDA MUSEUM The Bendas were, indeed still are, one of the great dynasties of Czech music. The founding father was Jan Jin Benda, a linen weaver and village musician …
Carl Michael Bellman (1740-95) was more Swedish troubadour than composer, and is affectionately remembered by his Swedish countrymen as a poet. In his heyday he entertained at the court …