Shopping for Art this Christmas
Shopping for art this Christmas – Dublin City The People’s Art and Merrion Square
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Shopping for art this Christmas – Dublin City The People’s Art and Merrion Square
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Christmas Art Shopping in Dublin City The People’s Art Exhibition takes place in Dublin this weekend.
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Painting the Himalayan Range Sarangkot, Nepal This is the first painting I have attempted since my return from Nepal.
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Nepal – Return to Kathmandu Starting off our holiday in Kathmandu, our impression was of a very dirty, smog filled city. Animals roamed the streets, cows, goats, dogs, monkeys, chickens and hens all scrounging around in search of scraps of food. Litter, particularly plastic bottles and bags were tossed among the piles of rubble.
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Nepal Religion We erroneously presumed that the predominant religion of Nepal is mainly Buddhist, however according to the 2011 census, 81.3% of the Nepalese population was Hindu, 9.0% was Buddhist, 4.4% was Muslim, 3.0% was Kirant/Yumaist, 1.42% was Christian, and 0.9% follow other religions or no religion. Many Gods are worshipped and cows are
The Nepalese are a very friendly race of people with beautiful smiles. Their traditional greeting is “Namaste” a conventional Hindu expression on meeting someone and usually holding the palms together vertically in front of their chest. The meaning: the divine in me bows to the divine in you. The rest of the world could learn something from this. Tibetan
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The journey continues in Chitwan – Day 2 Nepal We walk to the Rapti river and watch the elephants bathe. I certainly had fun watching the elephants use their trunks to spray water on their riders and being tossed from the elephants back and hurled into the river, splashing in utter delight. Terra firma for
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Chitwan and the Rhino Encounter Continuing our travel adventures in Nepal, we took a boat ride along the Rapti River, followed by a jeep safari. Driving along, we spot lots of deer (the Bambi type) so sweet! Monkeys jumped through the trees and I imagined I could hear David Attenborough whispering tales of this
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Art + Travel Adventure to Nepal – Kathmandu Discovering Kathmandu Discovering the allure of the Kathmandu valley with its ancient history is all-embracing. It is small and compact covering an area of 220 square miles. There are seven World Heritage Sites declared by UNESCO which is a number unrivalled anywhere else in the world.
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Art + Travel Adventure to Nepal – Bhaktapur Bhaktapur, founded in 12th century, is the ‘city of devotees’ and looks just like a medieval city built of brick and ornate wood carvings. It is one of the three royal cities in the Kathmandu valley and is considered a cultural gem.
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