OH and I are nuts about Finland. The music is fantastic, the people courteous, funny and organised, and the scenery is to die for. Assuming you like trees and lakes, that is...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
There's a fabulous "wood museum" we love. Every aspect of wood and trees is covered - it sounds as if it couldn't possibly be interesting, but it's compiled by people whose whole lives and livelihoods have depended for centuries on trees, which makes it completely fascinating.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
I'm a great fan of Vermeer myself. Have you read Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier or seen the film with Scarlett Johansson starring as Griet and Colin Firth as Johannes Vermeer? I used to show it to my Art History students in my English lessons at university.
I saw Rembrandt's "The Night Watch" in Amsterdam many years ago. In 2013 the Rijksmuseum made it's re-opening with an extraordinary flash-mob event, re-creating "The Night Watch". Well worth watching on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSIXleVWPaE
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B3, on the subject of music rather than visual arts - do you know the Finnish group "Rajaton"? Well worth a listen...
No Will have a listen
OH and I are nuts about Finland. The music is fantastic, the people courteous, funny and organised, and the scenery is to die for. Assuming you like trees and lakes, that is...
I do and I don't like the heat. It sounds like my kind if place - when it's not dark!
There's a fabulous "wood museum" we love. Every aspect of wood and trees is covered - it sounds as if it couldn't possibly be interesting, but it's compiled by people whose whole lives and livelihoods have depended for centuries on trees, which makes it completely fascinating.
@Obelixx,
I'm a great fan of Vermeer myself. Have you read Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier or seen the film with Scarlett Johansson starring as Griet and Colin Firth as Johannes Vermeer? I used to show it to my Art History students in my English lessons at university.
I saw Rembrandt's "The Night Watch" in Amsterdam many years ago. In 2013 the Rijksmuseum made it's re-opening with an extraordinary flash-mob event, re-creating "The Night Watch". Well worth watching on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSIXleVWPaE
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