Brecon Beacons

"I Like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me."

(Noel Coward)

" I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit."

(Henry David Thoreau)

Florence

"Every Parent is an artist, but not every artist is apparent."

(Eric Micha'el Leventhal)

"Lets raise children who won't have to recover from their childhood."

(Pam Leo)

Amsterdam

"Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center."

(John Green)

Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist."

(Julie Birchill)

Zaanse Schans

"Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion-by wind."

(Hermann von Helmholtz)

"I had rather live with cheese and garlic in a windmill."

(William Shakespeare)

SW4 SE24 and SE21

"Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic."

(Keith Haring)

"Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist."

(Georges Seurat)

Dungeness

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."

(Alphonso Dunn)

"It is easier to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own."

(Herbert Samuel)

Holland Park W8 and Hyde Park W2

"It has been said that 'God made the country and Man made the town,' but that is not true: the town is simply disguised countryside."

(Gillian Tindall, The Fields Beneath)

"I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper."

(James Robertson, The testament of Gideon Mack)

Seven Sisters and Beachy Head

"The downs shaped my whole outlook and way of painting because the colour of the landscape was so lovely and the design so beautifully obvious!"

(Eric Ravilious)

You came and looked and saw the view

Long known and loved by me

Green Sussex fading into blue

With just a touch of sea

(Alfred Lord Tennyson)