Sunday, May 22, 2011
Paris & Bradford
The only connection between these cities is that I visited them both on consecutive weekends in 2009. Christina was in Paris for some training, so we met there for the weekend. It was a short weekend: only from Fri night to Sun lunchtime, so not a lot of time to really see much and relax with Christina and catch up with Sissi who was also there... but we did have some time to just wander around and even catch a ballet in the Opera House.
Bradford is nothing like Paris. An old center of the industrial revolution, it was famous for textiles and wool, but after all the industry died it went into serious decline. I went to check out a multimedia museum with exhibits on photography and tv and so on, and Saltair, an old wool-mill that has been converted into galleries and art space, and featured an exhibition on David Hockney.