For ages, Wales was deeply uncool to anyone who wasnāt Welsh. But itās where paganism started! Druids, mountains, forests, swamps, meadows, castles, ruins! But Iām not just proud of Wales and its bucolic history, itās got a good/progressive future, too, as one of the worldās fastest growing renewable energy markets, as a major contributor to the worldās seaweed (diet of the future) economy, and over 32% of the landmass designated as conservation zone to protect wildlife and habitatsĀ šæAlthough in a fuck, marry, kill scenario, Iād prob marry Wales but I would def fuck Japan
I am by no means patriotic. I hate so much on this country and then I go to The Derbyshire Dales on a hot Sunday and Iām like ohhh ok yeah I get why we had so many nature and romantic poets. I am learning to love the country Iām in, and hate the politicians and colonial history in it, rather than just living in self-hatred. Itās not the lands fault, and the land is beautiful. This is also a rec for free roaming cows.
hate the sin love the sinner. that bears no relation to my love for scotland. being here is quite nice. earlier today i was asked āare you okayā to which i responded āi think i am too happyā. awws graced the room. scotland i love you.
I only take flights over oceans, and have avoided short-haul flights for about 5 years now. Itās the combination of deep environmental guilt, but also tbh I just *really* enjoy train travel. I just took the train from London to Venice Italy which was incredibleāsunset over the alps. European trains are so much further ahead than American trains, which is silly when you think about the whole railroad race / baron situation in the late 1800s. America could have had such a cool rail network. I took the train from LA to San Francisco last year and it took 15 hours. FIFTEEN! and the only food on board was soggy hot dogs. Nein danke. Pls send your rail execs to Europe for some on-the-tracks research. It's just so much more stress-free to walk into a station in the middle of a city, taking time to read as fields and forests speed by, a chic little snack and then, boom, you arrive right in the middle of another city as if nothing happened.
Cleanliness is godliness ! ESP when that cleanliness is given to you by 20,000 year old water from deep inside our earth. I have a whole map saved on my phone of secret and not-so-secret hot springs all over the USA and Europe. Happiest when dunked in hot water (*see spas, above)
Iāll wear them until they are just raggedy scraps of leather hanging off my feet. I usually go for a sturdy boot situationāright now itās the R.M Williams Craftsman bootāIāll wear them to traipse through a bog one day and to a wedding the next.