{"id":1288,"date":"2013-09-10T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T14:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/?p=1288"},"modified":"2013-09-09T21:52:52","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T02:52:52","slug":"in-which-we-meet-lots-of-sheep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/10\/in-which-we-meet-lots-of-sheep\/","title":{"rendered":"In which we meet lots of sheep"},"content":{"rendered":"

Or, the second part of our trip to Europe.<\/p>\n

On the Saturday after we arrived, we drove to Perry Green to see the Henry Moore sculpture garden<\/a>, which had a special exhibit by Auguste Rodin. (Here’s a virtual tour of both men’s sculptures.<\/a>) The Moore sculptures are outside, and widely spaced, and for the special exhibit the Rodin sculptures were dotted around the landscape as well. It was a really nice setting to see the art, especially the larger pieces.<\/p>\n

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I didn’t expect to walk through a sheep pasture to see things. The closer one here is called “Sheep Piece”. The sheep seemed to appreciate its shade. The sculpture in the distance is called “Large Reclining Figure”. I was not impressed with Henry Moore’s titles. <\/p>\n

Afterwards, since we weren’t that far from Cambridge, we drove up there and walked around, looking at the ornate buildings. <\/p>\n

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\nI like the light and shadows in that one.<\/p>\n

We peeked through the gates into a lot of courtyards.
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I bet the students just love all the tourists. <\/p>\n

Then we stopped for dessert. I had Eton Mess, which is broken up chunks of meringue mixed with cream and topped with cherries and walnuts. It’s like a big pile of the topping for a real dessert. Tasty, but different.<\/p>\n

Sunday, we went on a walk along some canals.
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The Basingstoke canal didn’t have much of a current and was covered in bright green algae, at times a solid mat. There were a lot of locks, which I imagine makes traveling very slow.<\/p>\n

Cygnets! We saw some that were almost adult-sized, and some very small ones still on a nest with one parent while the other supervised from a few feet away.
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We stopped for lunch at a pub where I got very tasty (and hot, and greasy) fish and chips. It seemed like the appropriate choice.<\/p>\n

We took a different route back, not along the canals, and passed a field of corn. I would have thought I was back in Illinois, but then we walked out of a forest and and found this:
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On the drive home, I was too slow to get out my camera for the ruins of a stone church standing in a field–no roof, just sharply peaked stone walls with long holes for the windows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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