Canberra

I spent most of 1976 overseas and a couple of months of that time backpacking around Europe with some dear friends.  We try to meet up a few times each year but Covid has played havoc with that over the last two years.  Last year we managed to see the Monet and Friends exhibition in Sydney and on Saturday we drove to Canberra to see Van Gogh Alive.  In 1978, 4 days after our wedding, John and I flew to Holland and spent a year living there - we were fortunate to be able to visit the Van Gogh Museum and see the real paintings.

This light exhibition was wonderful and Vincent's writings were interspersed with the pictures.  I believe the exhibition is heading to Melbourne next.

There were sunflowers everywhere.

Saturday night we had a fantastic dinner at an Afghani restaurant - the food was delicious.

Sunday morning we visited The National Gallery to see the "Know My Name" exhibition featuring female artists, including Jenny Kee, Linda Jackson and Romance was Born. 

A very interesting piece of display looked like a floormat but it was made up of old cutlery and chillis.

Romance was Born also designed my daughter-in-law's fabulous floral and black lace wedding gown.

After the Gallery, we visited more sunflowers - this time a Sunflower maze.  It's a lovely farm where fresh eggs and other produce may be purchased, as well as sunflowers.

Am definitely looking forward to our next adventure.

The sewing machine hasn't been turned on since Friday last week!