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Details: Geschrieben von Super User; Kategorie: Touren-Fotogalerie; Veröffentlicht: 16. Februar 2014; Zugriffe: 38362

In Dartmoor there is a fascinating atmosphere of both nature and human history...
...which you can see from the top of the soc. "Haytor Rocks"...
I got up from the back of this rock for my wife not to see it...
This is the way from the visitor centre of Dartmoor National Parc...
...to the first group of rocks...
...from the sight of a second rock group (soc. "tor" in the celtic language)
...where horses are roaming almost freely...
...and feel at home as you can see.
Mounting up feels a little bit like "British Allgäu"...
...and you see "orio cows" like the cookies (as we called them)...
Sturdy foals are teasing their mothers...
...and waiting for tourist to admire them...
In Widecombe the mystic of Dartmoor is present within the small town...
...with the Church of Saint Pancras in the middle...
...where a plow stands next to the church´s most challenging event...
...where a storm (lightning) killed 4 people and injured around 60 in 1638...
The old entrance is closed...
...but not the graveyard that is still telling stories of old...
...of the celtic cross...
...and of life overcoming death.
The next stop was at Bellever where I was hiking a little bit...
...watching cattle grazing...
...while walking up the way to the "Bellever tor"..
...through natural tunnels whispering words of former times...
...and people that first came up that hill...
...to watch and feel the atmosphere of a "tor" (word meaning: "to the light")
...where the sight is wide and lifting the spirit.
It is where you can see the remains of the people coming here...
...marking almost exact lines from south to north...
...leading to simple altars (soc. "cairns" in celtic)...
The way back passes old farms and you would not wonder if Robin Hood came along...
...and would help you find the way through the Bellever forest on the East Dart River...
...riding over old bridges to seek for the Sheriff of Nottingham.

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The Eden Project near St. Austell (Cornwall) is an extraordinary place with a great vision:
...if you believe it or if you check it: the dimension is abolutely HUGE...
The work begun in 1998 in an clay pit where more than 100 million litres of water had to be drained...
...for real and constructed bees to come and help perform a miracle:
A huge shelter for jungle plants, another shelter for mediterranean plants and outdoor gardens...
...whose architecture and beautiful plants speak for itself...
...having exotic plants standing next to intense warnings about climate change...
...while we are standing in awe to the wonder of life...
...that is so seriously endangered by our soc. "civilization"...
...as it's beauty is so fragile due to our behaviour...
...although looking so strong...
...it needs protection even in regions like the mediterranean area...
Will we change our behaviour so that plants can help us survive?
Nature does not need us. But we definitely need nature to survive!

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Heligan is a garden older than 700 years that got lost but was brought back to life...
...by Tim Smit, John Nelson and a team that turned back wilderness into a garden!
My wife´s favourite flower bush: Hydrangea (Hortensie)
Heligan also demonstrates best practice in stock breeding...
...and how to care about animals.
It is the most visited english garden since 1998 and a place to rest...
...for those who enjoy old and new garden elements...
...like these poppy flowers...
...or older garden tools.
Heligan keeps a mystery - the huge rhododendron tree knows it!

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Glastonbury Abbey - one of Britains first monasteries did surely not begun with that building...
Die Weißdornbäume dort sind eine Mittelmeer-Variante des Crataegus monogyna...
...der im Gegensatz zu unserem Weißdorn 2x im Jahr blüht und den Beinamen "Biflora" hat.
Even the monastery garden is beautiful enough to visit Glastonbury Abbey...
In the 14th century Glastonbury became a rich and powerful monastery...
...but the foundation of this Ladies Chapel was nothing else than a simple hut.
Also the trees there are impressive: a red beech older than 300 years...
...and the whole complex reveals the size of the former organization.
Another white thorn tree and its impressive up to 5 cm long thornes...
A look into the reinvented monastery kitchen...
...reveals the meaning of a german saying "Leg einen Zahn zu" (lower the pot on the gear).
The white thorntree can become quite old (the oldest one in Hethel/UK is about 700 years old).
The colours of Ladies Chapel as they might have looked like...
In the lowest accessible floor you find a burial vault...
...that might have looked like this in former times...
...covered with rose blossoms...
...overhung by a stone picture: the scandal of the cross - HE who said: I am the door...

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May I present...
...the abbey of Hastings - Battle abbey:
The battlefield looks so peaceful...
...where William the Conqueror changed Britains history on the 14 october 1066 AD.
But William was not so amused on that day...
...because Harold King of England did not show up the way he wanted.
Between 5.000 and 10.000 men lost their lives where sheep are grazing...
...and we only see the tidy yard of a manor house.
Thank god trees outlive human wars...
...and even flourish like these trees in the New Forest near Southamption...
...but they also face their enemies...
... but the beauty of life will always come back.