He then took us straight to a modern sculpture by Anthony Gormley. You may not know his Derry sculpture, but most of you will be familiar with his more famous work, the Angel of the North.
So here is his bear adorned Derry statue, rather unimaginatively entitled, 'Sculpture for Derry walls' (perhaps we should launch a competition to come up with a more imaginative name).
What you may not appreciate from our photo is that the statue is the same whichever side you view it from. This is because it consists of 2 indentical cast-iron figures joined back-to-back. The intention is that the statue is a metaphor both for the city's divisions and it's common bonds (we're quoting the official blurb there). The bit we thought was fun was that as the eyes were open, we could look through from each side and see 2 very different views (that is when we managed to arrange it so that we weren't looking at each other!)
Our tour of the walls finished rather conveniently at a very nice restaurant where we enjoyed a fine lunch. It was then time to check out a few shops with a view to buying presents for those members of Bears Unlimited who had stayed at home and kept the wheels of business turning.
There were lots of shops hidden away in courtyards reached by small alleyways. Amongst some of these shops we found a very traditional Irish thatched cottage.
Can you see us peering through the window? It looked like the kind of place that should be serving cream teas, but sadly it wasn't. Perhaps that was just as well as we were planning a special end of holiday meal that evening, and knew hearty appetites would be needed to do it justice.
Lots of love from the Bears Unlimited Irish travelling party xxx
2 comments:
The Derry Wall Sculpture looks like a cChocolate Spiderman. Makes me pine for Easter eggs.
Hi guys! We think we've seen similar perched on the top of various London buildings so the iron man gets around a bit doesn't he!
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