From the mountains to the sea - sand and nuclear waste
September 2nd 2014 The UK certainly packs a lot of scenery - with enormous variation - into a small space. In a couple of hours today we travel from the English high country to the Cumbrian coast, traversing the great Settle-Carlisle railway. The scenery is classic dales - dry stone walls, small hamlets clinging to the side of steep valleys, high country sheep (small and cute, not the 'businesslike' Aussie bush ones
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