Wills Memorial Building: Tower Tours

Watching Bristol from the top of Wills Memorial Tower is something each Bristolian must experience. The 68-metre high tower at the top of Park Street offers incredible views of the entire city, in clear days also Avonmouth and Portishead. Wills Memorial Building is a neo-gothic building design by Sir George Oatley and built as a memorial to Henry Overton Wills III. Building works begun in 1915 but it was not opened until 1925. It is considered...

Sliding down Park Street

An artist is planning to turn Bristol's Park Street into a giant water slide. If we have the same heatwave we had last summer, I am for sure sliding down Park Street! The artist Luke Jerram pretends to transform the city centre into a 90-metre water slide on May 4. It will consist of a temporary slide made of plastic sheeting and hay bales, and it will be free for the public to use. Jerram explained to Bristol Post that "Park and Slide...

The Caligari Experience

Until last week, Blue Mountain Club's wall was advertising a new event this weekend. Motion nightclub will host The Caligari Experience next 13th March at 7.30pm with an spectacle called "cinematic circus". They probably based their performance from a very famous German film production. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is a 1920 German silent horror film directed by Robert Wiene. It is one of the most influential film of the German Expressionist movement...

A reader lives a thousand lives

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.  The man who never reads lives only one" George R.R. Martin, A dance with Dragons I have recently started reading a book: ‘The Cuckoo’s Calling’ by Robert Galbraith. It is actually good news as I haven’t read a book for… months (not to say a year).  I have been busy, that’s my excuse. Which book are you currently reading? And if you’re not reading any… what’s your excuse? Today,...

Pancake day!

My calendar squeals that it is Shrove Tuesday tomorrow. Where I came from, the day preceding Ash Wednesday is called "Martes de Carnaval" (or Carnival Tuesday) and everybody dresses up in fancy costumes. Sadly, Winter Carnival is not celebrated in the UK. Instead, I've been told British people eat pancakes to celebrate "Pancake Day"!  It probably comes an Anglo-Saxon interpretation of the French Mardi Gras (or Fat Tuesday), referring to...

Pub crawling in the centre

A pub, formally public house, is a drinking establishment fundamental to the culture of Britain. In many places, especially in villages, pubs can be the local point of the community. With the intent to immerse ourselves in the culture of Britain, we did pub crawling in 7 pubs we have never been to (except for one). In every bar, I literally ordered half a pint of "the cheapest beer/ale they had" and I received many different beer suggestions...