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July 20, 2010 | Find your inner child at Terra Botanica TERRA BOTANICA. Never heard of it? Just opened, it’s France’s brand spanking new theme park. All about plants and set handily, for us Brits, in the Maine et Loire region. Talked about and in the planning for 12 years, the first digger came onto the 11 hectare site only two and a half years [...]  July 5, 2010 | Hampton Court palace flower show 2010: some impressions in aid of Over active bladders It could be considered the second best. Chelsea Flower Show is Cinderella’s slipper. Everyone wants to try it on. Hampton Court seems to have lurked in the shadow of the sister’s rhinestone bedecked footwear. A plea must be made to let Hampton topple the haughty dominance of its slender [...] June 28, 2010 | The Thames Barrier Park will shake you up a little Thames Barrier On a visit to the Louvre, I found it weird and rather fascinating to go down into the vaulted places beneath the pavement, descending Tardis style through a hi tech pyramid of glass and steel. A good French joke and the Thames Barrier Park has a few – not least, because it was [...] June 13, 2010 | All that was missing from the evening was Rupert Bear, truly I have just returned from a completely magical evening in Parc Oriental de Maulevrier, Anjou, France. At utter nightfall we made our way through dark Maulevriers and past a rowdy wedding in an overgrown village hall. No-one had closed the curtains so we stopped and peered in at food on trestle tables, some guests sitting it [...] June 6, 2010 | Barbara Hepworth's sculpture garden in Cornwall.
sky in St Ives The hill down to St Ives is thronged with genteel boarding houses, net-curtained and jostling for business with inviting signs outside. Small front gardens are brimful of pots of geraniums and petunias with benches positioned to catch every sliver of sunshine. Gull shriek is loud and sparkling reflections bounce off the [...] |
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