On the trail of Beatrix Potter

Happy Birthday Beatrix Potter!

Much of the Lakes District is packed with Potter Mania, and that’s not Harry Potter, but Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved Peter Rabbit and other stories set in idyllic countrysides that she both wrote and sketched in superlative genius. So much so, that as a child in India, I loved the stories, and was convinced that the landscapes were fantasies…