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'Odd Formations', England, The Peak District, Kinder Scout Hilltop
Image by WanderingtheWorld (www.LostManProject.com)
Below is an excerpt from my HDR travel blog www.LostManProject.com. I'm currently traveling the world. Feel free to tag along if you're interested.
The top of Kinder Scout in the Peak District really provides some spectacular views. I was fortunate enough to enjoy some amazing weather while in England.
England has had some recent newspaper headlines that read "4 Million households where no adults work". This means that roughly 7 million Britons under-65-years-olds are currently living with no work experience. Britain even allocates over 36 billion pounds to 'jobseekers'. In other words, if you're out of a job, England will pay you to search for one. Being paid to 'search' for a job doesn't sound like much of an encouragement to find one. What I was even more shocked to learn is the incentives England provides to those who have kids: if you have a child, the government provides housing and a monthly wage. I couldn't find anything to substantiate this fact on the internet but I heard it from more than one person while visiting England.
Sweet travel
Image by anetz
Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than a moving plane, ship or train. There is an almost quaint correlation between what is in front of our eyes and the thoughts we are able to have in our heads: large thoughts at times requiring large views, new thoughts new places. Introspective reflections which are liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape. The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do. The task can be as paralysing as having to tell a joke or mimic an accent on demand. Thinking improves when parts of the mind are given other tasks, are charged with listening to music or following a line of trees. The music or the view distracts for a time that nervous, censorious, practical part of the mind which is inclined to shut down when it notices something difficult emerging in consciousness and which runs scared of memories, longings, introspective or original ideas and prefers instead the administrative and the impersonal.
--- from The Art of Travel, Alain de Botton, 2002
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Formations:
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