Culture

Art, literature, poetry, dance, cuisine: all enthrall and delight me. Learning about culture is one of many reasons to travel. Culture sustains me when times are tough. You?

Canaletto’s Thames Painting Trip

Mistaken for Venice, Canaletto’s Thames painting leads to trips in Nova Scotia and London and imagined journeys of connection and coincidence.

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I’m Fine with Not Doing It All

Insights from a trip to Japan about the joy of not doing it all even when that is exactly what you thought you wanted to do.

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Destination Land Art

Land and destination art converge with literature and travel as Ruth explores connections and coincidences that start with a book bought in Dublin.

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Connection to Water

Our connection to water flows through art to health and wellbeing, making blue spaces the new green spaces.

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A Lake Near Copenhagen

A painting by my late father, a master forger, takes me on a journey involving sunsets and Prussian Blue.

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Blaze Island, a Journey through Fiction, Science and Art to Place

Blaze Island, the 2020 novel by Catherine Bush, inspires a journey exploring connections with paintings, climate science, Shakespeare and beautiful Fogo Island off Newfoundland, Canada.

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