Our first real visit to Leicester in a long time, and once again it was blisteringly warm. But we had tickets for the Van Gogh Immersive Experience, so we had to go.... just as well really since otherwise we would have just sat on the sofa moaning about how hot we were. But even so. It was not much fun walking around outside, which thankfully we didn't have to do too much.
We got into Leicester a bit early and had a look around the Highcross centre (now with lots of empty shops it seems), visited the TAG Heuer boutique (which has apparently been there for 3 years!) and bought a toilet-roll holder from John Lewis. No one can say we don't know how to party.
The Van Gogh experience was situated in a church just behind the John Lewis car park and actually it was pretty good. I never realised that he had killed himself in his 30s, or that he was colour blind - which seemingly explains his overuse of very vivid colours. It was quite small though, and us being us we managed to cock it up, entering the main 'experience' before we'd finished one side of the church and then having to traipse back through the middle after we'd done the other side as there was no other way back!
The actual film/experience was good, although at the start (or rather the part where we joined it) it seemed like not much was happening. But once you watch the whole thing it kinda makes more sense. It was quite pleasant, and if the seats had been more comfortable I could have happily sat through the whole thing again. But alas the comfy looking sofa we descended on turned out not to be as comfy as we thought.
After this bit we flitted past the 'Create Your Own Masterpiece' by colouring in one of Vincent's paintings... because we're not 5 years old. Though saying that there were a couple who were older than us gleefully 'joining in' like utter retards....
There was an optional VR experience and for me this was the highlight of the whole thing, it really brought the pictures to life and it was very clever how they made it so you could turn around inside the paintings, especially the street scenes. Also the wide open corn fields and the closed in forests worked really well - I would definitely recommend doing this, and it was only an extra £3 each.
After that it was a case of 'exit through the gift shop' (after we'd gone back through the middle and watched a short documentary of course) and then back out into the miserable 28 degree heat.
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