I heart Bath (15 October 2005)

We took one and a half hour to drive up to Bath (Gloustershire) from Surrey. Located in the south west of England, in the heart of the English countryside (Cotswold), it is a world heritage site.

It was a perfect sunny warm day. We wandered for the streets of this lovely old country city, nosing into the very characteristic shops, visiting the suggestive Roman baths, admiring the Georgian architecture, the view over the park and walking along the river. If you are never been to Rome, I think that you get a good feel while walking through the ruins.

We popped into a delicious cheese shop and I bought myslef a cube of goat cheese. Hmmm, lushy... We sat for a coffee and indulged in some champagne chocolate bonbons. I bought also a cute pink French berret, although I fell in love with a 20s styl black hat. It was too expensive and I need an occasion to wear it. Finally, we had a traditional Cornish pasty*. Our reward for all that walking around.

I named Bath the nicest city in England. It's not a case that it is a world heritage site.


*Don't they look very similar to the empanadas?! Well, the basic filling is the same: meat, potatoes and vegetables. And they taste similar! How strange: two similar plates, both traditional of two so different and far away countries: England and Argentina.

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By Derek Tong

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by Daniele Domeniconi

My next trip to Paris

Booked! A weekend to Paris in November. No boyfriend, no travel mate, but two lovely young ladies to visit: Magali & Roxanne. In plan, champagne&French fois (but no gras!), Xmas shopping in Les Marais, Parisienne night life, and the following two exhibitions:

L'exposition Dada au Centre Pompidou. L'exposition a pour ambition de montrer ce que fut l'un des mouvements artistiques internationaux les plus marquants du XXème siècle qui a influencé de nombreux courants artistiques contemporains. C'est la première grande exposition organisée en France depuis l'exposition présentée au Musée national d'art moderne en 1966.


For the first time in Paris, at the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, a major large-scale exhibition bringing together four major Viennese painters of the 19th and 20th centuries: “Klimt, Schiele, Moser, Kokoschka: Vienna 1900”

[I had an Austrian professor at university who exposed me to the Austrian visual art (especially Klimt, Schiele and Kokoschka) and modern literature (e.g. Ingeborg Bachmann, Marlen Haushofer, Peter Handke, Thoms Bernhard, Elfriede Jelinek, etc.). So, when I was in Vienna (I have stayed there for one month on a scholarship in July 2001), I visited the uber-kool new MuseumsQuartier, but, at the time, the Klimt-Schiele-Kokoschka section was not inaugurated yet. Gutted.]