Not on Cycling nor on heather dotted valleys

(warning Hellboy II , Cream tea spoilers ahead)

Nikoloi Gogol's stories , especially ones that are pastoral evoke such familiarity even if set in Ukraine.
In one where two neighbours fight, he describes a scene where one man watches his neighbour's clothes line and wonders at an old woman's rather large petticoat with pockets that could fit melons !!
This pastoral-ness of his stories is so charming you are drawn
into their simple lives without much cynicism.It is only more adorable when the author pops in every now and then to clear misconceptions.(Woody Allen must have gotten it from here, i suppose)

Pan's labyrinth had done magic earlier with its characters and their quirks.
From the same director,Hellboy II ,redid all that magic.With its Troll markets,aquatic man,lovely looking princess,tumour baby,tooth fairies that eat up human bones,a magnificent Forest Goddess,...its like being in a dream world,with the kind of dreams you dreamt when you were a kid,unspoiled by the reality all around.heh if you want to cleanse your dreams ,go watch this movie and stay hungover forever with its characters.i want a movie that goes into the mind of Guillermo Del Toro...i also wish someone makes Mahabharatam and Ramayanam into superhero movies with such style, that keep up its fantasy.

Disobeying the title,i must tell you that we went on a great bumpy cycling tour along an Old railway line,in quaint Burley.All that pedalling seemed easier with the postcard scenery on either side and lovely weather.Snapshots had cows,heather valleys,never ending stretches of green,apple laden trees,dogs with kind eyes and happy tails only too glad to get muddy,picnic lunches,small brooks,stately horses with some nervous riders,huffing up the hills and wheeee down the dales,kazhudais with their beautiful eyelashes,tractors,berries and lots of fun.
But let me tell you that cream tea has nothing to do with cream in the tea or vice versa.