HUMAN LANDSCAPES / CHESHIRE – Good for body and soul

Good for body and soul? Maybe we can help you to plan you the perfect, short and original break in Cheshire, http://www.chestertourist.com/tour1st.htm but choosing with other people’s eyes inside this mainly rural county, Cheshire, that has a high concentration of villages, as Runcorn (an industrial town and cargo port, located within the Borough of Halton), Daresbury (the birthplace of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland author Lewis Carroll), Holmes Chapel (the Swettenham Meadows Nature Reserve lies 4.0 km east of the village) and Warrington.

Welcome to beautiful Cheshire, an area bursting with things to see and do, where there is something for everyone. You can use our bench to build your own bespoke itinerary based on things to you like to do and enjoy at Runcorn, Daresbury and Holmes Chapel. Why this kind of route? Because we like to observe the human landscape of three people who were born in those three special places in this county: Hall Caine (novelist and playwright of the late Victorian and the Edwardian eras), Lewis Carroll (an English writer, and photographer), Harry Styles (English singer and songwriter, known as a member of the boy band One Direction) and Rob Hefferan (Figurative and Realist Artist).

Between 1853 and 1968 (in just over a century), the creative landscape of Cheshire was able to express – with words and music – the creative shades of those under that sky was born and raised. Our journey through human landscapes of the Cheshire began in 1968 in Warrington (where Rob Hefferan, as a child, he began to draw and paint), continues in 1994 at Holmes Chapel (where Harry Styles has grown), walking in Runcorn until 1853 ((where at the time of his father’s birth Hall Caine was working temporarily in the port docks), and ends in 1832 in Daresbury (where they were born the novels “Alice’s adventures in Wonderland” and its sequel “Through the Looking glass”).

Vitruvian Man created by Leonardo da Vinci is a design, where a man in two overlapped positions (with arms and legs spread wide), is inscribed in a circle and a square. https://leonardodavinci.stanford.edu/submissions/clabaugh/history/leonardo.html Throughout the centuries, that image has become a cultural icon. Perfectly proportioned, the symmetry of the human anatomy is correlated with the symmetry of the universe. That man is you, inside your existential experience, where you breathe and see, hear, eat and feel it the creative landscape of Cheshire.

That circle encloses almost a century of Cheshire creative landscape. Each side of Leonardo square expresses a different creative nuance, the one that four human beings have transmitted to us, in words, music and colors. Under the sky of Warrington you can imagine dinosaurs and brides by Rob Hefferan http://www.robhefferan.net/ When you stop to Holmes Chapel, where Harry Styles has grown, try listening to “Live While We’re Young” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Uorz7yiIr8 (boyband One Direction, from their second studio album Take Me Home). Walking in the streets of Runcorn does not you will find Hall Caine, but he will be with you, by reading a few pages of his most famous novel, The Christian https://www.amazon.com/Christian-romance-classic-Hall-Caine-ebook/dp/B002KT3KT2 (the first in Britain to sell more than a million copies). Before you go home, there remains only the fourth side of your emotional experience in Cheshire. You can stay a little in Daresbury, for reading a short poem by Lewis Carroll: https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Stories-Poems-Lewis-Carroll/dp/0517220776 “We make a court, and even then the process! And do not refuse, I must condemn you! Today is a boring day, and I feel depressed.” The mouse to trickster: “What story to be wag! The processes are done by judge and jury!” “I’m judge and jury!” It was the dog’s madness, ‘I am the whole law; and condemn you to death! “