Returning from visit to Venice in 2017 I have been thinking a lot about the dilemma of tourism which is both essential to Venice and also slowly strangling it. Indeed, this is not a problem exclusive to Venice with cities like Prague, Dubrovnik and indeed Edinburgh succumbing to the same issues. Venice is literally a living mausoleum which understandably draws…
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Out with 2018!
I have failed to keep my blog Bouncing off Walls up to date and an obvious new year’s resolution is to not be so lapse in 2019. I had previously set myself the task of being more discursive – and whilst my lack of action in my blog suggests otherwise, 2018 turned out to be a very busy year! January…
The art explorer – Venice Biennale 2017
In June this year my husband Brian Inkster and I made our second trip to Venice Biennale Arte and we were not disappointed. We visited the Biennale for the first time in 2015, and I fell in love with discovering a city I know in a completely new light – stumbling across works in the most unexpected spaces, and really…
Look Up – Light Up
Last weekend Page \ Park spent a really enjoyable 36 hours in Leeds – part study trip and part exploration of a city which a few of us are getting to know quite well through our project work. We couldn’t have timed our expedition better – coinciding with the city’s Light Night Festival which runs over two consecutive evenings in…
The Closed Door – reflections on a visit to Gdansk
I am just back from a very enjoyable weekend trip to Gdansk with friends – not your usual long weekend destination but nevertheless a city brimming with history and in equal parts both desolate and beautiful. We arrived at lunchtime and wandered around the Glowne Miasto (largely reconstructed after the 2nd World War) looking for a lunch spot, but everywhere…