Friday, August 11, 2017

Kassel, home of Volkswagen; which, every few years, likes to put on an art show too!






Our Anuran-friendly lodgings...

















Kassel - nestled in the Hessian hills, a city with much history and charm. But it is a small town and and working city too, and so the excursioneer must be resourceful in finding entertainment and diversion. As luck would have it, our visit coincides with a very special event; every few years the city hosts an art festival, where artists from all over the world may exhibit their paintings and sculptures, and nowadays, photographs, films and even videos qualify as "art" works! We spend a polite hour or two walking around the very busy halls and galleries looking at the exhibits. However, to the eagle eyed observer, there are quite as many weird and wonderful sights outside the galleries as inside!

  Always appetising at any time of the day!

 Oops! We seem to have reached the (our) limits! (Just joking!)

Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Sending a lexicon out in search of meaning #11

A round-up of the shorter excursions undertaken in Sydney at the beginning of this year. Your excursioneer has been busy of late: covering the big cultural events in continental Europe and revisiting one's roots in The Old Country...













The Lexicon is nestled beneath the heavier duty Meaning Generators along from the Marina. Every inch of this area has been landscaped. Not a meaning-less corner anywhere!




Newcastle is rich with purpose-built Meaning Generators, still created in the original spirit of such an enterprise. "Post Modern" irony has little foot-hold here!




Walking around Newcastle city centre, where the railway has been truncated and will be replaced, we are assured, with a modern, efficient, integrated tramway network. We are assured of many things, as humankind has been throughout its history...




The lexicon takes root and flourishes in such moody corners as these!