We were at the Hugh Lane Gallery on Sunday for a concert (see Other tab, 13 Mar) and we couldn’t help but be struck by the large numbers of very fine art works they hold. This is a place that…
A Day in the Life of…
It’s been a VERY long time since I’ve blogged by myself. Trawling back, it seems to have been April 2015! Partly this is because I’ve been very busy, and partly because Bruce is (a) wittier and (b) way better at…
Hibernation nearly over
I see it is two months since the last blog entry. We have not ventured far because of the cold wet weather and have remained for the most part hunkered down in Dublin. It hasn’t been a bad winter as…
Tate Modern
On my recent visit to London I had a morning spare so went off to the Tate Modern art gallery. Taking the Underground to Blackfriars Station, you exit onto Farringdon St, turn left and the Thames is just a few…
Liverpool Wrap-up
One of our excursions on the Sunday was to see the “Another Place” installation by Antony Gormley on Crosby beach. According to the artist, it “harnesses the ebb and flow of the tide to explore man’s relationship with nature”. Hmmm.…
More Liverpool Highlights
Liverpool is a very vibrant city and this skyline shot across the Mersey picks up the interesting mix of architectures old and new. Zooming in, you then see that they go and spoil it all by adding in the wind…
An English Country Garden
Still on the topic of our Liverpool long weekend, there were some great photo opportunities right in Ruth and John’s back yard where they have a well-tended garden. Although it was late autumn, there were still plenty of flowers around…
Liverpool Cathedral
We spent a very pleasant long weekend as guests of Ruth and John, Kirsty’s in-laws, who live in a small village close to Liverpool. We toured extensively around the Liverpool area and some of the highlights were listening to their…
Montserrat
Montserrat? Well, I suppose I should have guessed from the name that it was a sort of mountain. But what sort of mountain, I could never have guessed. We travelled by coach about an hour and a half across the…
Well, Hello Dali…
It’s so nice to see you back where you belong… Well, maybe. We went one afternoon to the Catalonian town of Figueres, about 90 minutes from Barcelona, to see the museum which Salvadore Dali set up as a memorial to…