Holiday

Saturday 5 August – Edinburgh Festival

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Edinburgh weather

Mimi’s Bakehouse

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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.

Sunday 6 August – Edinburgh Festival

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Jupiter Artway

Dovecot

 

 




 

 

Driftwood 👍👍👍




Last Clown on Earth 👎




Staging Wittgenstein 👍👍👍




Monday 7 August – Edinburgh Festival

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Dance-Forms 74th International Choreographers’ Showcase 👍


Perhaps, perhaps, quizás 👍👍👍👍👍




In the street


The Improv Musical 👍👍👍




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?

Wednesday 9 August – Hull

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Hull City of Culture 2017

humber street gallery

Visible Girls

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

Visible girls team
Anita Corbin and Deborah Willimott
 



 
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©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

Thursday 10 August – Hull

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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/

Friday 11 August – Hebden Bridge

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Visible Girls

 

 

 
Old Cragg Hall Barn
 

 


 

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

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.
 

 

 

Monday 14 August – York

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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

 

 

Tuesday 15 August – York

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A walk around the York wall


 

 

 

 
Photovoltaic cow

 
Coming out from coffee in the refectory

 
Burghers of Olde Yorke

 

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

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

Schloss Derneburg 2017

Oktober 2017
Van der Valk Hotel Hildesheim


http://www.hallartfoundation.org/de/location/schloss-derneburg

“Antony Gormley The Hall Art Foundation Schloss Derneburg 2017 CHANNEL” von Hall Art Foundation




Maria Lessing Kantate

Im Stil eines Bänkelsängers trägt Maria Lassnig in 14 Strophen ihren Lebensrückblick vor, während im Hintergrund selbst gezeichnete Schauergeschichten ablaufen: Es ist die Kunst jaja, die macht mich immer jünger, sie macht den Geist erst hungrig und dann satt!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sDSZ9GwnCE&feature=youtu.be

Braunschweig

Travel to Provence 21 April



 




Our first BER flight? It all seems to be sagging a bit.

Sunday 22 April Istres


Camping le Vallond des Cigales €19


French people like to bring their pets to the camping site.


 

45 min. walk to Istres for lunch. Even the giraffes here have that particular French style.


 

Be yourself! What a motto for our holiday!

Monday 23 April Maussane-les-Alpilles


Camping Municipale les Romarins €23
Really arrogant French policeman on motorbike. Incredibly loud TomTom GPS took us to wrong place. Several Michelin-approved restaurants in Maussane-les-Alpilles! Fantastic optician fixed Gerhild‘s sunglasses for „free“.


Fixed for free – formidable!


 
All of those provencale vegetables!


 
Time to extend the loft.


 
After a little rest of course


 
Supper on the square.

Tuesday 24 April Baux-de-Provence



 
Beautiful 4km walk to Baux-de-Provence.


 


 


 
The coolest place to be when it‘s 26 degrees outside.
Carrières de Lumieres Baux-de-Provence




https://youtu.be/n0mDuLFdIi8



 
Interesting film about Jean Cocteau’s life and work.


 
The village has some nice restaurants for lunch.

Wednesday 25 April Avignon


Camping Bagatelle, €23 just across the bridge from Avignon
La Petite Pêche, 13 rue St. Etienne. Fantastic 3-course Dorade (whole fish each) lunch with a thyme jelly dessert. Incroyable €15,- each menu du midi.


Watch out Avignon, Gerhild’s coming.


 
Is it Gerhild or trompe l’oeil?


 
Now Conservatoire de Musique but used to be where the popes kept their spare change.


 
Horsing around in the papal garden.


 
What’s left of the famous pont d’Avignon and the papal palace


 

Thursday 26 April Apt


Camping-les-cedres €15


A song and dance on leaving Avignon




Apt cathedral – we never did find the entrance

Friday 27 April Dignes-les-Bains


Camping les Eaux Chaudes €19.50


Musée Gassendi a veritable cabinet of curiosities.
The first two curiosities


 
A perpetual motion machine.


 
Old master meets a pile of jewel-lined digeridoos.


 
Two moths clinging to the window (made of banknotes).


 
Kim in French philosophical conversation with the master of the house.


 
A tame butterfly who will land on anyone’s hand


 
Part of the large collection of butterflies.


 
This museum has the only intact example worldwide of a fossil mermaid!

Saturday 28 April Dignes-les-Bains

Today we visited Alexandra David-Néel’s home in Digne-les-Bains

But first of all we walked to a park with some Andy Goldsworthy cairns, a butterfly sanctuary and some water-based art installations.

Our camp site’s valley

Digne-les-Bains on quite a hot April day

Musée Promenade
A cool artwork with practical value.

An Asian artist made this which reminds us of a restaurant in Rosenthalerstr. in Berlin.




Alexandra David-Néel sang operas, was a feminist activist like Emily Pankhurst, was the first western woman to visit Lhasa in Tibet and drank tea with yak butter which I thought smelled quite yukky, not yakky (although none of the French sniffers in our guided tour group seemed put off).
wikipedia Alexandra David-Néel.
This portrait of the great lady is supposed to be made of yak butter.

More yak butter work. If it melts in the sun that’s fine, nothing is eternal in Buddhism.

Alexandra was quite a pretty teenager, dressed up here for some unspecified performance.

The simple house where she lived after returning from her travels, until an age of almost 101. Free guided tour in French.

Guardian article

The scholar and opera singer who sneaked into Tibet in the 1920s was also an anarchist, ran a casino and adopted a Buddhist monk

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2020/jun/14/explorer-alexandra-david-neel-first-western-woman-lhasa-tibet




Turn subtitles on and switch to English.

Sunday 29 April Entrevaux and Tourrettes sur Loup


Camping la Camassade €23


Rain was forecast for today so we drove to Tourrettes-sur-loup, stopping for a picnic and a poke around Entrevaux. Had a nice chat with father & son bakers about bread and “brexshit” as the older man proudly showed off one of his important bits of English vocabulary.



 



 



 



 
After all of the bends in the mountain roads, Gerhild is happy to frolic around the meadow in the campsite Camping la Camassade €23 with borage casually growing by the wayside.

Monday 30 April Fondation Maeght and Tourrettes-sur-Loup




Today we were up early enough to be practically first through the door at Fondation Maeght



 



 
Look carefully and you can see a bird nesting on her head.


 



 



 
Groovy architecture!


 



 

The Korean artist Lee Bae did some nice things with charcoal youtube link (French), which are almost impossible to photograph nicely.

On the way home we stopped off in Tourrettes-sur-loup, which is very pretty. We took a free book from their book-sharing cabinet – Cold Water by Gwendoline Riley.



 



 



 



 

In the evening, we enjoyed listening to Jazz Radio.

Tuesday 1 May Saint-Paul-de-Vence


Parc des Maurettes €30


On the way to Nizza, we stopped of at Saint-Paul-de-Vence, a picturesque mountain village visited by coachloads and one camper-van load of tourists.


 
Olga’s favourite angel!


 
All of the shopkeepers felt inspired to go all artistic (Fondation Maeght is just up the road.)


 
The village church shows the French approach to things on the cherubs/mermaids front.


 



 
Fantastic pizza served by a one-eyed cook who Gerhild thought looked like a real pirate.

 
Prince Charles feeling the pressure

Wednesday 2 May Nice




Today we ate at Badaboom, which was delicious and not too extortionate. Charming American waitress. The straws came from Costa Rica and are some sort of bamboo!


 



 
More public French philosophy. No need for translation, I think.


 
A super cool French chocolate rabbit.


 


 



 
The garden of the Marc Chagal museum in Nice. Nice size and good audio guide (despite pesky 120 dB schoolchildren)


 
The creation of man 1958


 

Thursday 3 May cap d’Antibes


Today we walked around the Antibes peninsula, in the footstep of the Rolling Stones, Sean Connery and from now on Kim and Gerhild.




 
London has millionaire’s row, Antibes has billionaires bay…


 



 



 



 
Some Russian oligarch’s weekend retreat?

Friday 4 May Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat




Swimming our way, heading for Nice.


 
Sentier du littoral


 


 

Villa Ephrussi-Rothschild – the creation of one of the richest women on the planet, at the time.
Béatrice Ephrussi-Rothschild- 19 years old.


 


 
One little chair was for Beatrice’ dog, the other was for her mongoose! The lady in the pitch opposite to ours has one for her cat.


 


 


 



 



 



 
So much energy we did a second walk sentier du littoral.

Saturday 5 May Cap Dramont


Camping Campéole du Dramont €30 Location right next to the beach! Facilities




 



 
Peeling potatoes 🥔 for a salad.


 
As the sun slowly sets in the west…


 
Listen to the original rolling stones




Sunday 6 May Cap Dramont




The small island, l’isle d’or, behind Kim is a nice reddish colour (porphyry) and its tower is said to have been the inspiration for The Black Island in Hergé’s The Adventures of Tintin.

In 1897 Léon Sergent bought the Isle of Gold from the French state in an auction for 280 francs. In 1905, Dr Auguste Lutaud won the island in a game of cards. He decided to build an 18m high tower. When it was finished in 1913, he proclaimed himself Auguste I, king of the Île d’Or and organized a sumptuous party. Stamps and coins were made, showing the Island. In 1961 the island was sold to François Bureau, a former naval officer, who renovated the tower and lived in it until his death in 1994 during one of his traditional early morning swims. The island still belongs to the same family and if a flag is flying, then the tower is inhabited, just like Buckingham Palace!🇬🇧

 



 
A nice round walk starting directly from the campsite.