Exploring European Cities On Foot
Women Who Travel | Condé Nast Traveler
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The Hardy Tree in St. Pancras Cemetery
The roots of a tree have grown in among dozens of gravestones arranged around the Hardy tree. Thomas Hardy was an architect before he became a novelist and one of his early jobs was working on removal of graves from graveyard. He writes about it in his autobiography about how they had to exhume these bodies at night so that gorkers wouldn't look at them but what's happened is that the roots of the tree and the trunk of the tree have grown into each other. The stones are now covered with moss and lichen and don't look like manufactured things anymore. I'm like my jaw sort of opened because I just I didn't know it at all and I have to go see it
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