Showing posts with label Tourist Spots. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tourist Spots. Show all posts

Monday, 4 August 2014

Patterns from Andalucia

Alcazar, Seville.


Alcazar, Seville.


Alcazar, Seville. Wall Pattern (wood)


Alcazar Seville.


Alcazar, Seville.


Alcazar, Seville.


Alcazar, Seville.


Mesquita, Cordoba.


Mesquita


Mesquita



Rooftop view in Seville


Shopping Market - Seville

Wednesday, 20 April 2011

Portable Paint Palettes




I found this wonderful little travelling palette in the National Portrait Gallery shop - it's made by Koh-i-Noor - I thought the design was super. You would have to take your own brush & water, but it has it's own little mixing palette in the lid and one small water reservoir on each layer. Super compact design .... fits very nicely in my handbag!

This is the giant escalator at the National Portrait Gallery -
the Gallery is definitely worth a visit - wonderful stuff!
Not only modern portraits but rooms full of historic ones too, including my favourite Tudor/Elizabethan period.

Thursday, 29 April 2010

Strand on The Green, Chiswick.

Strand on the Green is a very picturesque walkway
on the Thames,
running east from Kew Bridge.
Lots of pubs with beautiful views of the river.


only - do take care if the tide comes in!

Tuesday, 13 April 2010

Sewing Cafe in Paris

A new cafe has opened in Paris called the Sweat Shop (!) where you can have a cup of coffee, a piece of cake and a 'spin' on a sewing machine (at 6 euros an hr). It's near the Saint Martin Canal in the north-eastern corner of Paris - if you wanted to visit. It seems at the moment that mostly fashion students are using this cafe, and ordinary citizens have been a little reluctant to try it out.

I think it's basically a great idea and hope it takes off and maybe takes on over here in the UK.
(note les knitty cupcakes.)

(Article in The Times, 13.4.10)

Monday, 1 March 2010

Chipping Campden & Pitt Rivers

The Wonderful Pitt-Rivers Museum in Oxford.
(Click on the photo to see a super large version.)


Some pics from short trip to Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire.




This was outside The Old School House - the figures has its finger up its nose and is making a "V" sign!