Photo post - Liverpool

I went to Liverpool at the beginning of October with my friend Nicole for the Museums Association Conference. We both had free places this year after filling in a quiz at last years conference in Glasgow and winning! Conference as mostly interesting, and Liverpool is a great city. I'd like to go back and take Scott with me.

Here are some photos from our trip, with some extras thrown in for good measure. The extras are Orlaith wearing my shoes, and an art installation of a sinking yacht near Canary Wharf, taken from the DLR train. The photos of the church in Liverpool were taken on two separate days. The church was bombed during WWII and has been left as is in memorium to those who died there and in Liverpool during enemy bombing raids. You even have to sign a waiver on your way in - just in case I guess. It had an art installation in it from Yoko Ono which was a whole bunch of ladders, to which you could add if you wanted to!!

The photo of the painting and then the x-ray of the painting were taken at the Conservation centre. Great place. Appealed to the museum nerd in me, most definitely. The X-ray shows that the painter changed his mind about the style of the dress the woman is wearing and painted over it.

Enjoy!

BERLIN!

I don't think anyone actually reads this blog anymore, but just wanted to share some photos of our trip to Berlin from the end of August. We went with Nicole for the Long night of the Museums where all the museums stayed open til 2am. We had a great 6 days away and were totally knackered at the end of it all.

Random photos I love :-)

From a whole bunch of places!!

Barcelona

Ola! Scott and I headed to Barcelona for a long weekend on Saturday 5th April. Barcelona is one of those cities with a great feel. Perhaps because Spain gets more sunshine than London and people are generally happier, who knows. But I felt happy to be there.


OLA SUNSHINE!! :-)

First sight we saw was the Sagrada Familia (temple of the Holy Family). An absolutely amazing sight, inside and out. It is still under construction, and will be finished in 30 years or so. It was great to see the process of it all coming together. Gaudi was planned his church to be representative of nature. The huge columns and ceiling features are meant to represent trees. Absolutely breathtaking.






And, because this is so delayed, here are some more random photos from Barcelona:

Gaudi building

Lovely flower in the centre of the city

metro train

Outside of the opera house

Particularly unappetising fish I found in the market!

This is me outside Barcelona's synagogue, or rather, the building that houses the foundations of it. Very small, but interesting and obviously the street level was lower back then!

Montserrat, a monastery outside of Barcelona where we spent the day wandering on the Monday. Lovely place, but really foggy when we got there!

I am really pleased with this photo. Another one taken at Montserrat on the way to the hermitages.

An oh-so-cute hampster! I had never actually seen one up close, and they had lots of animals on sale at Las Ramblas (a series of streets/avenues that have markets, street entertainers, restaurants etc).

Scott and I took a wander up to the hermitages outside of Montserrat, and it was amazingly foggy!!