Sutton Hoo
When R and I realised that we were staying very close to Sutton Hoo, we thought that we should go – but really more as a box-ticking exercise, I think, than because we expected to fall in love with the … Continued
Grinling Gibbons
If you’re a fan of Grinling Gibbons, or of wood carving, or of sculpture, or of C17th British history, I can’t recommend too strongly that you take yourself off to Compton Verney in Warwickshire at your earliest convenience, to see … Continued
The May Queen
The reason R and I came to Liverpool was to see the exhibition Charles Rennie Mackintosh: Making the Glasgow Style at the Walker Art Gallery. In my case, we also came to see the red squirrels at Formby, but the … Continued
Ode to rage
We were booked on an evening flight back to Heathrow, giving us most of the day in Vienna. Apart from the specific exhibitions we’ve seen, this trip has mostly involved revisiting places we’ve been to before, but sometimes that’s a … Continued