Tuesday 20 September 2011

Link love

The first one is a link to a virtual tour of the Neues Museum in Berlin (I was threatening that I would finally come to Berlin just for several days of meeting my friends finally and doing a serious museum inspiration tour, the same would be for London, but with a different Monika!):

http://www.neues-museum.de/nm/index.html?r=vestibuel

The other is to a very weird blog that I came accross my research for my eyesight project:

http://artofmourning.com/miniatures.html

I was particularly into these little pins with eye miniatures, there has to be a picture in there for my project!

Thursday 8 September 2011

Bridges Walk

Yesterday we invited Monica to visit with us a venue where we will be working soon (and thus some reconnaissance was necessary).

One thing led to another and we ended up walking almost 10 miles towards South Queensferry from the Dalmeny estete, in a mixture of lashing rain and sunshine peeking through the clouds. The walk ended with a meal in the famous Hawes Inn (it is featured in novel 'Kidnapped' by Robert Louis Stevenson) just by the Forth Rail Bridge. The pies were on a small side I thought, but after several hours of intense walking (and talking, it is always good to have deep conversations about meaning of life with longknown friends) this kind of food was very welcomed. We demolished some profiteroles, apple crumble and pecan pie too. We have returned home on a completely empty Edinburgh bus and we slept like babies.

Can you imagine that someone tried to saw off the bronze horse that stands in front of the Dalmeny House?! I though that these kind of things happen only in my homeland...








Tuesday 6 September 2011

Indian Summer

The autumnal mood is officially on in Edinburgh and after the coldest summer in last two decades (with temperatures averaging +12 degrees...) we have entered the period of so called Indian Summer. The images to illustrate it come from a birthday party of our friend Michelle that actually happened a while ago but that setting sun view from a kitchen window perfectly illustrate the feeling of an end of summer.


Monica is back with us from her visit up in the North of Scotland and Sky (and she summed her experience with stating that she would be happy to move there tomorrow if she could!) so watch this space for some new images as we will be doing some more visiting!