Continued,great places to smoke a cigar

[mazolaman]

I've been home lately,up in the English Lake district,doing some work for my parents.

A real pleasure,as there is no mobile phone signal,and little broadband!So,incommunicado for a while....

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On a rare day off from the family toil,I took off to the Fells,and sat in the position above smoking a Unicos (a new cigar for me),

which was a truely excellent cigar not overly strong,but with a little liquorice,and a slight burnt tang.

The cigar of the trip,however,was a H Upmann coronas vintage 1999 (another new one to me)which was basically a stamdard Upmann Corona but with the flavour X5......great cigar.

My recomendation for all forum members....escape to somewhere nice,where there is no mobile signal or broadband,and relax!

Anyway,back to the London rat race.........

Kevin.

[laficion]

Hi Kevin,

How true, nothing like getting away from it all.

The photo is simply beautiful, what a great place to have a

great cigar and relax, well done

[android]

Kev, very nice my friend.

[BobKincaid]

A beautiful place, Kevin, and kudos to you for being good enough to yourself to make it something worth remembering. There's nothing like a distant mountain vista to make the soul take wing. Thanks for sharing.

Puts me in mind of something Wordsworth wrote:

"The world is too much with us; late and soon,

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers,

Little we see in Nature that is ours . . . "

[Torontonian]

Lovely photo, Maz. What a spot!

[mazolaman]

Thanks chaps.

Places like this make you realize that there is no beauty you can create to match nature.

And also how futile your day to day goings on are!

A point summarised in that snippet of Wordsworth,far more eloquantly.

I was reading a poem by Norman Nicholson at the time,called Scafell Pike,which says pretty much the same thing.

This part of the Lake district is called the Langdales,with Blea Tarn behind me.

[BobKincaid]

This is the view from my Sunday Smoking Spot. Tiday was perfect for a little half-mile walk followed by a smoke taken at profound leisure.

[mazolaman]

looks lovely Bob,we're lucky people!

[BobKincaid]

looks lovely Bob,we're lucky people!

Thanks, Kevin. It is, especially because it's so easily accessible. The trail to it used to be a narrow-gauge railroad line. It's taken about a hundred years, but the area is slowly recovering from the damage done by underground coal mining.

Unfortunately, a lot more of the area where I live looks like this: Mountaintop Removal 500 mountains have been destroyed and over a thousand miles of streams. And unlike my smoking spot, these areas won't recover because they're gone forever.