200-202 The surreal world of Dali

Given I used to manage an art gallery I thought I knew a lot of Dali’s artwork but on visiting the Dali Theatre Museum in Figueres, I realised just how varied and prolific he was. It’s an absolute feast for the eyes with my favourites being his ink characters and watercolour war paintings, whereas my …

190, 191, 192, 193 – Major catch up from the pyramids and Milan

Apologies for the delay, I’ve been out of sorts and had fallen behind. All caught up now, hope you enjoy xxx 190 – Pyramids in the clouds and a drip feed of chocolate in Milan Never before have our lives been so revolved around the weather. We have waterproofs and can cope with the rain …

185 – Flooded Venice on a shoestring

I was awake at 5am having dreamt of my venice painting. I’d almost not bought it as I’d never been, but Mark knew how much I liked it and promised to take me (he had actually forgotten this when I mentioned it this morning lol). It was still raining but due to improve by 8am …

171 – Eating our way round Zagreb

You know that health kick I started…well today it got triumphantly sidelined 🤣 We hunted down some of the best food Zagreb has to offer and combined it with two wonderful museums. As a side note, last night I managed to convince myself to go for a run. I’ve had a bad relationship with exercise …

168 – Baby wild boar and spectacular ceramics!

Quite often the highlight of our day is something completely unplanned and just a wonderful surprise. This morning we had a knock on our door at 7am, and a couple of builders asked if we could shuffle so they could park their work vans for a job opposite. We happily obliged (its illegal to wild …

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