A lovely Spring September day to visit Manly with the USK Sydney gang. It is a bit of a hike to get there on public transport – train into the city and then ferry ride- well over 1.5 hours (only 40 minutes drive away) but it always nice to have a ferry ride across Sydney...
CONTINUE READINGWow… a local sketching outing! It seems a long time since I had one of those…and it is a nice feeling (a GREAT feeling) to have the huge task of my Brazil posting completed (well almost!) Yesterday was not quite a ‘sketch outing’ – it was a work session. I needed to go into The...
CONTINUE READINGMy final day of my Brazil trip was a very special one… it was ‘an architecture moment’. I spent the day in the company of 3 other architects and we visited two works by Lina Bo Bardi (architect for the MASP building that headed the previous post). I really didn’t know anything about...
CONTINUE READINGAfter my 6 days in Rio I headed back to Sao Paulo for the last few days. Back to the same hotel and back to the lovely Jardins area. Coming back to a familiar area when you are travelling has a slight ‘home’ feeling. Not so much that it feels like home but more that...
CONTINUE READINGMy final day in Rio was spent hanging out in a cafe with a group of local urban sketchers and a few of the remaining visitors. Along with the locals with have Luxembourg, Canada, Singapore/UK, USA. I was very happy to have a chance to visit the Santa Teresa area again! (If I...
CONTINUE READINGImmediately after the workshop with the architecture students described in the previous post I headed for my hotel… and ended up spending a lot of ‘quality time’ there for the rest of my stay in Rio due to a very nasty cold /virus. The other three hotels I had stayed at this trip all had...
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