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Category Archives: Places of Interest
York Minster
Trip to York
This was news to me: it takes less than two hours to get to York from London King’s Cross.
So it’s the perfect place for a mid-week break.
Tunbridge Wells – The Pantiles
I often struggle with picking a ‘favourite’.
But I think Tunbridge Wells might be my favourite part of Kent.
The New Tate Modern
The Tate Modern opened their doors to the press this morning to introduce their new, massive extension.
‘Switch House’, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, is a 10 storey 200 foot structure located at the back of the Tate Modern.
Flower Time
Bluebells in Surrey
Imagine the sound of a bluebell wood.
If the bluebells were bells.
Back to Oxford
A few weeks ago I went to Oxford (again!) for the day to see the Oxford Literary Festival in full swing.
Constable Exhibition at The Lightbox
‘Painting is with me but another word for feeling’.
So John Constable told Archdeacon John Fisher in a letter in October 1821. If you visit the latest exhibition at The Lightbox in Woking, you will be able to see Constable’s innermost clandestine feelings expressed on the walls of the gallery.
Constable was one of the first artists of the Romantic Movement to view landscapes for their own beauty, rather than as a backdrop for a historical scene. He created his art directly from nature rather than from his imagination and he resisted the fashion of the day to piece together elements taken from nature to form a classical landscape.
Oxford on a Sunday Morning
I spent a free Sunday morning in fascinated wandering through the city of Oxford.
Thankfully the sun came out too!