Day
8 & 9: Visits to the Ikon Gallery and Carluccio's and the
Hippodrome
We
have given ourselves 2 days this week to chill out here.
The
weather is not good enough to sit for long outside although we did have a coffee
in the plaza outside the Ikon Gallery.
This
Gallery (link) features modern and/or unusual art. Their current
exhibition is of Tapa – the barkcloth paintings from the Pacific
Islands. I got permission to photograph a few from Papua New Guinea
to send to my brother, Mike, who spent a number of years there
following his agriculture course.
This
work is paired with that derived from the minimalist line paintings
of Francios Morrelllet – both are very striking and fascinating in
their raw simplicity.
We
walked down to the BBC at Mailboxes though missed Dr.? Yet saw the
this strange child? The Dalek just said “####”.
"#######"
It
seemed a better idea to go to Carluccio's for a litebite and drinks –
excellent!
Today,
the weather is pretty awful and I dodged the heavy showers getting
some shopping.
Later
this afternoon, we are going to the Hippodrome for the Welsh National
Opera's Lohengrin – it has not been done in this country for 25
years!
We
are really looking forward to it.
This
afternoon, I am sorting out the re-cycling and rubbish, running the
engine for battery top-up and getting hot water for showers etc.
Tomorrow
is an early start so everything needs to be ready.
Photograph from the boat looking south east
Looking north west – where we are heading back tomorrow
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