Canberra: Toulouse-Lautrec exhibition

Friday 22  February

Saturday 23 February

 

This morning we decided to go to

Canberra to see the Toulouse-Laudrec exhibition

 

We stopped in Berry for a coffee but it was

SO hot that we decided on a cold light beer instead.

 

We stayed at the Crown Plaza

 

 

We had dinner at their restaurant and

then went for a walk

 



 

view from our window

 

We packed our suitcase after breakfast.

We have not decided what we will do tonight.

We left the car at the hotel car park and

walk to the National art gallery.

 

I was not allowed to take photos inside.

 

This is the first major retrospective exhibition

in Australia of the art

of renowned French 19th century artist

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

Featuring more than100paintings, drawings,

 posters and prints

 

We spent the morning viewing,we had

two more rooms to do but went

out to join a guided tour.

Then we went for lunch

(a nice shoulder of lamb salad)

and then re enter to finish

the last 2 rooms.

I did not know he has done so

much in such a short life.

He died at 37y.

 

Walking back

Captain Cook Memorial water jet

 

 

Carillion

 

Black Mountain Tower

 

The war memorial

 

 

Capital Hill

 

( they were getting ready for a wedding)

 

 

The water jet was going right across the

bridge and we had to walk through it.

 

During our walk we decided to leave Canberra

 and go spend the night and Sunday in Berima.

 

But we hit very bad weather.

We could hardly see through the windscreen.

I was feeling sick.

We decided to go home.