Paris

Paris is a very favorite city of mine. Romantic, historical, cultural, architecturally breathtaking, and for any foodie, everything you'd ever want to behold, try, share and consume. Arriving by subway from a visually stunning 3 hour train ride from Amsterdam was the perfect entrance to the Emerald City.

We stayed on the Right Bank, traveled to the Left with the River Seine between the two.
The Eiffel Tower to the right in the distance. The Conciergerie, formerly part of the Palais de la Cité a prison, where thousands including Marie Antoinette (the Reign of Terror) took in it's interiors.  Name change to Palais de Justice, and remains to be used for judicial purposes today. 

walking along the Right bank, Pont Neuf connects the two

Amsterdam

Amsterdam brings excitement in all forms in the wonderful hustle and bustle of the city, the trams, architecture, canals, foods, people and art! One can get a bit lost throughout the winding streets - unknown wonders pop fresh among the flower, cheese markets, cafes, delft shops. Visiting OCT 27 . 2014 with Ivy spent a full day in the Ryjkmuseum, wandering the streets, walking to Anne Frank Museum, through flower markets, on and off trams. All in the rain and piercing wind. More images to upload from another camera.

Canterbury Symmetry

outside my cottage on New Dover Road

TATE Britain . London

TATE Britain . LONDON hosted the Late Turner exhibition,
Painting set Free. An honor to take in and wander through
 I left filled up, followed by mental exhaustion. Fantastic!

I was indeed taken by the stunning interior architecture including the lighting fixtures!

In situ

along Buckingham Palace Road . OCT 25.2014

@ the Louvre . PARIS . 10.29.14

outside Gertrude Stein's house . 27 rue de Fleurus . Left Bank. PARIS . 10.30.14

on sidewalk in front of Rodin Museum . PARIS

ancient lead pipes @ Roman Baths . BATH . ENG 11.08.14

constructed @ 79 AD, the Roman Baths @ BATH . ENG The museum consists of 4 main areas including the Sacred Spring, the Roman Temple, Roman Bath House, all below street level. This is an image from the walk way surrounding the largest bath. The architecture on and above street level date to 19th c. visited 11.08.14

In Flanders Fields

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields. ~ John McCrae, 1915

Poppies @ the Tower of London by Paul Cummins . 2014

photo from Daily Mail

Margate

Ahhhh, Margate - the coastal town I want to continue to visit again and again. Where JMW Turner lived and painted his fiery skies, saying they were the best he knew in all of Europe, and where Tracey Emin said "I realize how lucky I am coming from Margate. It's a romantic, sexy, f*cking weird place to come from. I didn't come for the suburbs."

 Painted plywood found

English Magic

Turner Contemporary @ Margate . ENG - a dynamite exhibition venue in the seaside city that prides itself as hometown of contemporary artist Tracey Emin, and where the English Romantic painter, J.M.W. Turner lived for some time in Mrs. Booth's Boarding House, boasting that the skies were the best he had ever painted in all of Europe! I believe, he had a very good point. 

Jeremy Deller's English Magic takes one on a magical mystery tour through
English history, art, culture and geographical positioning.

Fragment of early Arts & Crafts pioneer William Morris, wood block with wall paper fragment

image from David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust Tour

wood block from early Arts and Crafts Movement by William Morris on display within Derek's installation prompting dialogue on theatricality, artifact, artifice and experience

public handling of a Paleolithic axe head

and a Neo-Paleolithic axe head takes Deller's work forwards and back...

Insitu = here

Selfie @ Turner Contemporary . Margate . ENG
 I was honored to see the reinstatement of this poignant project that
represented the UK for the 2013 Venice Biennale
insitu :: Jeremy Deller . English Magic 

Here @ Memling in Sint-Jan Hospitaalmuseum
Memling in Sint-Jan Hospitaalmuseum . Brugge . BE 10.10.14

Here @ Dover Castle . Dover . ENG 10.17.14

Here @ Deal Castle . Deal . ENG 10.17.14

Here @ V & A Museum . London . ENG 10.04.14