Ah, the bank holiday weekend. A time to get out of London and piece together an agenda of interesting activities, hopefully interspersed with at least one pub lunch. At the start of May I spend a weekend in the West Riding of Yorkshire, including a day in Leeds, and enjoyed activities including a very windy […]
I recently had the good fortune to be in Milan with an evening to spare, and decided on going to the late evening opening at the Pinacoteca di Brera. I had been once before, last year, but hadn’t seen everything I wanted to see, and was expecting a nice evening of art appreciation. What I […]
I took my first trip to the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds last weekend. Opened in 1996, it is an overspill of the National Collection of Arms and Armour, not all of which can be housed in the Tower of London or other sites. Looking into the history of the museum since my visit, I’ve […]
