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One Saturday I went to Tate Britain. It was a lovely visit. I forgot how beautiful Tate Britain is inside. I love their collection of Turner’s paintings. I recorded my visit and I hope you will enjoy it.
A few weeks ago I went to see the exhibition at Royal Academy of Arts dedicated to Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael and Michelangelo. I then visited one of the oldest and most beautiful bookstores in London called Hatchards, right across the street from the Royal Academy. After browsing through some […]
In her book Appointment with Yesterday Celia Fremlin explores the position of older women in the society of the 1970s England focusing on the disintegration of one’s mind and paranoia in the domestic setting shown through the lenses of relationships, abandonment, guilt and using the institution of marriage as a […]
“Home is where your absence is felt, the echo of your voice kept alive, no matter how long you have been away or how far you may have stayed, a place that still beats with the pulse of your heart.” “(…) immigrants don’t die of existential fatigue or nihilistic boredom; […]
I have prepared a short list of books that I cannot stop thinking about and had a huge impact on me. I wholeheartedly recommend all of them but if I have time just for one book then please read I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman. This books […]
Dead End Memories by the Japanese writer Banana Yoshimoto is a collection of five poignant stories filled with melancholy and nostalgia. Each story follows a woman who experienced loss and pain in her life. In all the stories each protagonist finds a refuge in the moments of the daily ordinariness […]
I put together another video from my time in the Lake District. This time I took a bus from Windermere to Keswick, and I went for a walk around Derwentwater. I then took a bus to Ullswater and Aira Force Waterfall. Next day I took a ferry from Windermere to […]
The best portion of a good man’s life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love. – William Wordsworth In October I visited the Lake District. On my first day I visited the beautiful village of Grasmere, the famous Gingerbread shop that has been selling its produce since the […]
I have prepared a list of books that are comforting and offer a peaceful and calming refuge to escape into. AUTUMN ROUNDS BY JACQUES POULIN Autumn Rounds by the Canadian writer, Jacques Poulin is a gentle, tender, luminous and deeply meditative novel exploring the meaning of solitude, literature in our life, […]
North Woods by the American writer, Daniel Mason is a wonderful, spellbinding novel written in a variety of literary styles, from prose to letters to poems and songs, including cleverly placed illustrations and photographs of natural landscape and artistic expression. It is a tale of one country, the Unites States […]