Ts'ai Lun (he invented paper don't you know...)
Open only 3 or 4 days per year, this sculpture garden in the Heart of England Forest is nothing if not 'exclusive' and actually it was pretty good. Unfortunately, the weather was miserably hot and so the whole thing was slightly arduous. Also, I don't quite know why they needed so many members of staff in the car park really, it seemed like overkill. I'm sure one or two would have been sufficient but there seemed to be someone every seven feet pointing and gesturing...
We got to the entrance and it was already too bloody hot. Thankfully the guide of 3 hours was laughably excessive and we managed to polish the whole thing off in 90 minutes, including the tedious poetry garden and the irritating maze (which really wasn't worth the bother and was rather cramped inside). There were some good sculptures to be fair, the Owl and the Pussycat was probably the best, along with the Minotaur and King Kong (if it hadn't been almost completely obscured by trees). The Leonardo DaVinci sculpture was good too.
We stopped off at the Tesco Superstore in Stratford on the way home, to use the facilities and to eat our sandwiches, it was lovely and cool in there, and we picked up a rather nice pizza for tea.
The Battle of Thermopylae 480BC
Albert Einstein
Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle & Sherlock Holmes
Yuri Gagarin & Laika
Vincent Van Gogh
Galileo
Sir Winston Churchill
Icarus
The Owl and the Pussycat (1)
The Owl and the Pussycat (2)
The Owl and the Pussycat (3)
The Owl and the Pussycat (4)
Black Metal Poetry
The Beatles
Lawrence of Arabia
Leonardo DaVinci
The Minotaur
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