by Simply Olivia Grace | Nov 5, 2018 | travel
The gothic spires of the old church rose above the town of Heptonstall. At first we lost ourselves trying to find our way through the narrow winding streets, but with a glance up at the bell tower, we knew our way at once. Beyond the wrought iron gates of the church’s...
by Simply Olivia Grace | Oct 29, 2018 | books, travel
“… Knowing that Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.” (William Wordsworth) The bus drove away with a rumble. Where it had been, there now stretched the countryside of pasturelands and rolling hills, framed with gray-slate walls of stone and a crooked...
by Simply Olivia Grace | Oct 22, 2018 | travel
“All we have to do is decide what to do with the time we are given.” — J.R.R. Tolkien October arrived in the Lakeland with a blaze of autumn gold, with fluttering leaves dancing across the pavement, and crisp blue mornings full of promise, and windows blazing with...
by Simply Olivia Grace | Oct 15, 2018 | travel
“And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, she needs not June for beauty’s heightening.” —Matthew Arnold, Thyssi, 1865. October in Oxford is a beautiful thing. The majestic architecture, the autumn trees, the chilly breeze, the sounds of the city at night. The...
by Simply Olivia Grace | Oct 8, 2018 | travel
Hey friends, wishing you all a happy first of October! Right now, as I write this from the living room of our little cottage, it’s a hot-mug-of-apple-cider sort of evening. Tonight I’m sharing with you some journal entries from my trip to the North Antrim...