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Provence & Côte d’Azur 2018 plan

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My-adventure-tours Marseille

Thursday 17 August – York to Berlin

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Train York to Newcastle. Transpennine Express
Collect ticket at station 385T968X

10:08 York
11:12 Newcastle Central
11:27 Newcastle Central Metro
11:54 Newcastle Airport

There’s a metro from Newcastle Central station every 12 mins & it takes 25 mins to the airport.

Easyjet flight from Newcastle U2 4628 from NCL to SXF 15:00 – 18:10

Wednesday 16 August – York

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Aesthetica exhibition

How difficult can it be to jump from France 🇫🇷 to the UK 🇬🇧

What remains of York’s castle

A walk around the York wall

Photovoltaic cow

Coming out from coffee in the refectory

Burghers of Olde Yorke

Time to leave for York

The Brontë parsonage in Haworth

Middletons York

Visit York web site

York Minster

Mary bottle-feeding Jesus to spare victorian blushes

Sunday 13 August – Hebden Bridge

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A super sunny Yorkshire Sunday

Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Tony Cragg

Zak Ové

Zak Ové at YSP from Yorkshire Sculpture Park on Vimeo.

A Yorkshire joke overheard at YSP

Q. What do you get if you sit under a cow?
A. A pat on the head.

Saturday 12 August – Hebden Bridge

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Walk to Hebden Bridge. There and back is about 10 miles.

1:30 Lunch in Hebden Bridge – Chapter 17

Arts and crafts work

Mud, mud, glorious mud …

Traces of the Tour de France

The canal is much easier – Hamden Bridge on LGBT day

Blottworks

Friday 11 August – Hebden Bridge

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Visible Girls

Old Cragg Hall Barn

Peter & Wind turbines

Siemens dispatches first turbines from Hull

Spencer Tunick

Slide show of images

Ron Mueck

The city speaks (or not)

https://www.hull2017.co.uk/whatson/events/the-city-speaks/

Wednesday 9 August – Hull

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Hull City of Culture 2017

humber street gallery

Visible Girls

instagram visible girls
Guardian article on Visible Girls
https://1stwomenuk.co.uk
http://visiblegirls.com/hull/

Visible girls team
Anita Corbin and Deborah Willimott

©Anita Corbin

©Anita Corbin

©Anita Corbin

©Anita Corbin

It’s never dull in Hull
If you’re a hungry gull
You can eat a curious dish
An English-speaking fish

Pussy hats

Bionic crows

The Deep aquarium

Old dry dock

Tuesday 8 August – Edinburgh to Hull

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Train

To Waverley Station it’s a 2 mile drive, 15 min. Edinburgh Central Taxis +441312292468 (book online)

10:00 Edinburgh (Virgin Trains East Coast) F13, F14 (GBP 46 each)
12:28 York

12:47 York (Northern Rail)
13:48 Hull

10 minute walk (1/2 mile) to
Kingston Theatre Hotel

Philip Larkin poems

Ten things you might not know about Hull (BBC)

Tripadvisor says

What’s on in Hull?

Monday 7 August – Edinburgh Festival

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Dance-Forms 74th International Choreographers’ Showcase 👍

Perhaps, perhaps, quizás 👍👍👍👍👍

In the street

The Improv Musical 👍👍👍

Sunday 6 August – Edinburgh Festival

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Jupiter Artway

Dovecot

Driftwood 👍👍👍

Last Clown on Earth 👎

Staging Wittgenstein 👍👍👍

Saturday 5 August – Edinburgh Festival

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Edinburgh weather

Mimi’s Bakehouse

web site

Bryony Knox

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Free bowler hats today

Circa: Humans 👍👍👍👍👍

The new, thrilling and heart-stopping performance from the internationally acclaimed Circa (Closer, Beyond, Wunderkammer). Humans is an ecstatic love letter to our endangered species. Created by Yaron Lifschitz and fresh from a storming season at Sydney Festival, ten acrobats go faster, harder and higher than ever before, taking us on a stirring journey of what it means to be human and of how our bodies, our connections and our aspirations all form part of who we are.

The venerable bird’s eye view 👍👍👍👍

Artocrite Theater (Hong Kong)

Three actors are transformed into birds and trapped within a cage – the human world. In this new life they must express their emotions and needs, and explore gender to forge a new, human identity. Artocrite theatre create a multimedia experience bringing intense physical experession together with contemporary music. Directed by Dr Peter Jordan in partnership Hong Kong artists Birdy Wong and Pong Leung, The Venerable Bird’s Eye View is a stunning cross-cultural performance without spoken language.

https://youtu.be/4WGAXwT4fr4

Kim had a little dance on stage with the bearded man in the dress with a shining heart.

Friday 4 August – Edinburgh Festival

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A heart at sea 👍👍👍👍

A Heart at Sea uses haunting live music to tell the story of a young Boy who bottles up his heart and throws it into the sea. Original song-writing is set to breath-taking visuals centred around a beautifully carved wooden chest that holds the secrets to the story.

Intricate puppets are swept through a transforming wooden world created by the spectacular chest. Be astounded as backdrops flip up, pirouette and change, sending the Boy tumbling through danger and discovery. Puppets roam on this unique contraption to recount the story of whales, tiny boats, sea captains and beards.

The original songs, composed by Avi Simmons, knit together the atmospheric tale through live vocals, instruments and a loop station. The music sweeps through echoing soundscapes to create a visceral, heart-warming experience. Join our hero as he embarks on a wild, nautical journey to recover his missing heart.

When we Ran 👍👍

When two sisters flee the commune they’ve grown up in, they discover a harsh and beautiful world they never knew. Playful, visual storytelling with original songs from the creators of We Live By the Sea – ‘Top Theatre of 2016’ (New York Times). Patch of Blue are a multi award-winning company creating fresh, exciting and touching devised theatre with live music. They are the recipient of the prestigious Grahame F. Smith Peace Foundation Award for promoting human rights through theatre, as well as the Best Theatre and Critics Choice awards at the Adelaide Festival.

Wereldband 👍👍👍👍👍

Losing it 👍

Performed by a clown duo enrolled in Cirque du Soleil, accompanied by one-man orchestra Bird Radio and comedy directed by critically acclaimed Cal McCrystal, this show is a daring fusion of laughter and tears. An odd and elderly immigrant couple is waiting for their children… A life defined by vegetables, routine and memories is illustrated through grotesque body-mask, mime, object manipulation and live music played on classical instruments and kitchen utensils.

Son et lumière + fireworks on way home

Thursday 3 Aug – Berlin to Edinburgh

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Easyjet flight: 6978 from SXF to EDI
EZY6978 flight
Departs: 13:25
Arrives: 14:45

Airlink 100 to Haymarket Station (runs every 10 mins)
9 minute walk to

16B ROTHESAY MEWS, Edinburgh, Scotland EH3 7SG (TripAdvisor link)

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Wednesday 14 June Rome to Berlin

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AB 8705 14:05 – 16:15 Flightaware

Tuesday 13 June Rome – MAAXI

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First today a free concert in Renzo Piano’s “Auditorium“. No nice pictures, just beautiful vibrations.

Zaha Hadid again. This time the MAXXI in Rome.

Haddock it’s not!

Virtual stuff

Nature Forever – Piero Gilardi with a guest appearance by Gerhild (with her shoes on)

Kim’s next desk

Mmmmmmm, delicious. Now for the crunchy bit!

Last sunset in Rome

Monday 12 June Rome walking tour

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New Rome free tour

Start at the Spanish Steps

Small group, no dodgy technology, lots about Bernini

Our magical guide, Gas’, a winged wonder.

It’s all done by mirrors – Sant Ignazio

Streets and streets of amazing Oleander trees near the hotel.

Not to mention these (Bourgainvillea)

No trip to Rome is complete without the Trevi fountain

Restaurant

Sunday 11 June Rome Porta Portese market & EUR

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What to do in Rome on a Sunday – Porta Portese street market. What the Swiss must think of these prices!

EUR – Italy’s preparations for the 1942 world fair, which was cancelled due to the war.

Mussolini didn’t have the Internet, so he found a sculptor to polish his image. Reminds me of Putin riding bare-chested.

Saturday 10 June Rome

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We have been given a better room in the Adagio Aparthotel Rome. Huge rooms, smart bedroom, outside terrace.

Breakfast on the 3rd floor

Friday 9 June Marina di Grosseto beach & Il Giardino dei Tarochi

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Started really early today

Leggy lass lounging on some logs

Il Giardino dei Tarocchi

The ninth wonder of the world

Apperetivi – Aperolspritz & snack €5 !

Thursday 8 June Pitigliano & Marina di Grosseto

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Pitigliano

Residence Mediterraneo
Via XXIV Maggio 68 H, 58100 Marina di Grosseto, Italien, Marina di Grosseto, IT next to the Parco di Maremma

Marina di Grosseto

Wednesday 7 June Bagnoregio Citta, Bolsena

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Bagno Regio Citta

There’s only one narrow and quite steep footbridge up into the “citta”.

They were filming a pizza advert as we arrived…
There is a Guardian article about the village.

Lunch in Bolsena, next to the lake

Tuesday 6 June Sacro Bosco

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Sacro Bosco

Take that!

Careful where you put your hand

What’s up with Kim?

Drunk 16th century architect

Abandon hope all ye that enter here

Fetch boy, fetch!

New room at Casa Selita today

Monday 5 June Orvieto, Dom und Patricks Brunnen

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Heute haben wir in Orvieto unseren ersten Dombesuch gemacht

Krieg der Sterne in der Kapelle

Eine fliegende heilige Kuh

Pozzo di San Patrizio oder Sankt Patricks Brunnen
Ein auf Wunsch von Papst Clemens II in Orvieto zwischen 1527 und 1537 konstruierter Brunnen. Die Wege vom und zum Brunnen bestehen aus zwei ineinander gedrehten Spiraltreppen. Durch diese Form einer Doppelhelix kreuzen sich die Wege nie, sodass die Esel mit ihren Wasserlasten, ohne sich zu begegnen, 53 m hinab- und wieder hinaufsteigen konnten.

Bei 31 Grad war Kim aber nicht Esel genug, um mehr als das erste Fenster zu erreichen.