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Adelaide trip.

 

 

    

I've just returned from a whirlwind three day holiday in Adelaide - a city that is in South Australia. It takes about one and a half hours by plane to get there from Sydney. I went there with my boyfriend to celebrate his brother's birthday and it was a real treat for me because I'd not been before!

Here are some "happy snaps"! 1) & 2) Marble lovely and William Morris wallpaper from the Art Gallery. 3) Two huge paintings by Napier Wallace also in the Gallery. 4) A fine bit of Palladian architecture for The Magistrate's Court. 5) A Victorian Church in North Adelaide. 6) A large cactussy type plant in a delightfully stained glass hot house in the Botanics. 7) A bee collecting pollen on a cherry blossom tree also in the Botanics. 8) A superb bit of Federation/ gothic style Victorian architecture in North Adelaide. 9) The sandstone buildings - which included the Art Gallery and Museum and various other government buildings on North Terrace.

Now! Off to explore everyone's blogs which I am very much looking forward to! Happy Monday folks!

Japan.

When I was about 10 or thereabouts, I was lucky enough to go to Japan for a few weeks with my parents. Gee it was amazing! So different to anywhere I'd ever been before! Tokyo was like a cross between "Blade Runner" and some exotic department store. Kyoto, on the other hand was like a fairy land of pretty red lanterns and trees and Zen Buddhist Temples. I liked the Buddhist temples the best. You'd take your shoes off at the door and then tip toe around stopping and sitting from time to time to contemplate a moss garden or a perfectly raked gravel yard.

I've also read that in Japan there are trillions of radio stations. Of course there are the usual music, news, talk back stations but there are also stations which only have waves crashing against cliffs and other ambient sounds to sooth the soul. I even read that there was a station dedicated to train station and platform noises so the businessman late home from work because of a "meeting" could use this as back ground noise whilst ringing his wife. I don't know how true that is!

So, here is my modern Geisha girl listening to her designer radio station in her pretty kimono. She is now a large print in my shop!