via Instagram, taken on August 11, 2012 at 07:32PM
Category: Places
Places I’ve visited that are of a particular interest to me, or that I think will be of general interest.
St Austell Brewery Tour
I’m a sucker for a good brewery tour, and this one was very good indeed. Great tour, great guide, lots of things to taste at the end. What could be better?
Molly’s Bar (at WOMAD)
It was a completely awesome place, and I saw Biscuit Head and the Biscuit Badgers there!
Mediterranean Biome at the Eden Project
Apart from the incredible variety of plants in the biome there was also some great sculpture and design. I just loved this piece.
The Barbara Hepworth Museum
Although it’s only a small museum it’s a brilliant collection of Hepworth’s work in her garden, and seeing it on a lovely fine day in St Ive’s made it a fantastic experience.
A very overdue visit to the Eden Project
I think it has been almost 10 years since I visited the Eden Project, and a lot has changed since I was last there. One of the biggest changes was the enormous zip wire that goes across the entire site. Of course, I had to try that out, and it was a truly amazing ride, I can thoroughly recommend it.
Of course, the biomes are really impressive too. It’s very easy though to walk through them and not stop to take in the huge variety species inside. It’s really worth spending the time to look, read and think about the work that the Eden Project is doing and just how amazing it is, especially when you think it was just a clay mining pit in the not too distant past.
I’m glad to have gone again and spent the day there, it was a great day out, and if you’ve never been I’d thoroughly recommend it.
I think that the Science Museum needs to clean up a bit
The Science Museum seems to have a real problem with cockroaches. It’s a shame, I’m sure it’ll start to impact on the visitor numbers at some point. They’re big ones too!
Seeing “The Dark Knight Rises” at the Science Museum iMax Cinema
I’d heard that this was one of the best places to see the film, but I hadn’t realised just how amazing a cinema it was. The screen really is huge, immense even. As for the film, well I just wasn’t ready for something on the epic scale that is “The Dark Knight Rises”. It is an incredible journey of a film, an excellent script and a superb plot.
In fact it makes me want to see the other two films right away. I just can’t wait for the boxed set!
Launchpad: Clicks
An interesting experiment at Launchpad in the Science Museum. This made some cool clicks and percussive sounds depending on what surface you placed the boxes on.
Some pictures from last night’s Claudia Brücken gig at Bush Hall
It was just an incredible gig.
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