Travel and Tourism Links

:: Europe :::: United Kingdom :::: England :::: Cumbria :::: Kendal :::: Travel and Tourism ::

Accommodation
Camping and Caravans

Travel and Tourism Links

	Kendal Museum - Founded in 1796, Kendal Museum's fascinating collections include local archaeology, history, geology and a natural history collection from around the globe. The Wainwright Gallery charts the emergence of Cumbrian man from the Prehistoric period, and houses examples of local Roman artifacts.
	Levens Hall & Topiary Gardens - Elizabethan historic house and world famous topiary gardens. It is the family home of the Bagots, and contains a collection of Jacobean furniture, fine paintings, the earliest English patchwork and many other objects.
	Museum of Lakeland Life - Experience the social history of the English Lake District over the last 300 years. A room dedicated to Arthur Ransome, and another to Postman pat. Part of Abbott Hall Art Gallery in Kendal.
	The Quaker Tapestry - An embroidery of community art, the creation of more than 4000 people in 15 countries over a period of 15 years. The exhibition shows 300 years of social history, beautifully illustrated, in 77 separate narrative crewel embroidered panels telling the story of the Quaker movement.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. -- Bertrand Russell Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. -- Anton Chekhov "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. -- Flannery O'Connor "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Travel and Tourism A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times. -- Anon. When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that. -- Bill Parcels, New Engla Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf Travel and Tourism The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this bre Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger. -- Eleanor Roosevelt Success is just a matter of attitude. -- Darcy E. Gibbons The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style. -- Fred Astaire All television is children's television. -- Richard P. Adler Travel and Tourism There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. -- Vladimir Nabokov He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news. -- Bertolt Brecht Travel and Tourism "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. -- Semisonic, Closing Time "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that. -- Bill Parcels, New Engla I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. -- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything. -- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. -- Robert L. Stevenson Travel and Tourism They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--- -- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind. -- Plutarch blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault. - Henry Kissinger Travel and Tourism Youth is wasted on the young. -- George Bernard Shaw Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently. -- Chinese Proverb Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as Travel and Tourism The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. -- Oscar Wilde "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. -- Arnold Bennett Sex is God's joke on human beings. -- Bette Davis The course of true love never did run smooth. -- William Shakespeare Travel and Tourism An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions. -- Robert A. Humphrey It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. -- Arnold Bennett "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Travel and Tourism "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job will cost. -- Anon This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force. -- Dorothy Parker Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. -- Steven Wright Travel and Tourism The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences. -- Author Unknown I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. - Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Travel and Tourism Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. -- B.F. Skinner "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming. -- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Travel and Tourism CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disg You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. -- W. Somerset Maugham blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Travel and Tourism If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment. -- Voltaire There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. -- George Santayana Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. -- Clive James In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. -- Adlai Stevenson Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. -- Anon. Travel and Tourism If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. -- Francis Bacon No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living. -- Anon. If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue. -- Samuel Butler Travel and Tourism I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. -- Robert G. Ingersoll An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. -- Russell Baker "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls. -- Lenny Bruce Travel and Tourism If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. -- Tryon Edwards Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at. -- Lyn Karol He who awaits much can expect little. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Travel and Tourism It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. -- Eugene McCarthy "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. -- Aldous Huxley To be able to say how much love, is love but little. -- Petrarch Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. -- Lily Tomlin Travel and Tourism blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (S�bastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain. -- Carol Leifer I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age. -- Henry Kissinger Travel and Tourism Mistakes are the portals of discovery. -- James Joyce "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the moment. -- Robert Benchley Go away...I'm alright. -- H. G. Wells, dying words Travel and Tourism If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates. -- Seen on a bumper sticker "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is. -- Ellen DeGeneres Travel and Tourism Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link |