Completed Painting: 'Tourist View 1'

 

'Tourist View 1', Acrylics & Paper Collage & on Panel, 400 mm x 800 mm, 2023

• Two views across two rivers - separate in space and time.

• Two view_points, in two individual square metres - located on two different screens. 

• Two re_invented territories. 

• Two visitor destinations [re_viewed].

[Translation]:

Beautiful day and night. Make sure you get there early and get your vstupenky (also available from Get Your Guide for the same price as the castle) and you will be in St. Wein by 9am. A beautiful cathedral and worth a stroll from the outside, the interior and exterior is quite remarkable. The other areas are nice too and add context to the countries and their various functions. Take the tram to the north entrance, this explains the many stairs and the uphill. There are a number of pay toilets and a small poorly advertised shop. ATTENTION: you often have to take tram 22 to get there. This tram caters to English speaking visitors who have paid for tram tickets but don't read the fine print on the back which requires confirmation to avoid fines (but the istegstadia isn't shown in yellow boxes on the walls of the tram). If you're lucky, the subway cops will take advantage of novice status and fine you about $80 per person in your group, show you the credit card machine, and threaten to ru the Policii Pass if you propose umírá. It looks a bit like targeting, profiling or snooping. If we were law breakers we would NOT have a ticket marked with the interval it IS valid for, date and timed instead of a PAID Vstupenky. It was a quick reminder of a visit to the castle and certainly contributed to the fact that no more money was spent on jewelry that day. The government appears to need more cash than the local economy struggling to recover from Covid. Shame on the subway police, and intimidation and little empowerment is a step too far. A great castle and cathedral, a bit corrupted by government greed.

[Translation]:

Excellent location, it's in a refurbished part of town opposite a fabulous John Lewis store. The rooms are also excellent, large TV, good air conditioning, comfortable beds, safe, drinks cooler and the usual little things you would expect, no noise from other rooms the night we stayed, cleanliness cannot be faulted, the two smaller sinks is a special design, the kettle doesn't fill, the battery is so low by the sink, the kettle is level, you have to fill it with mugs, and there is a tall cylindrical light in the main room, next to it is a window with a hidden LED bulb, really bright light, much better than the normal dim light in the room you usually have in hotels, but the only way to turn it off is to kneel down and connect the floor to the horizontal socket between the beds. The shelf and the lamp itself have never had a light without a switch in hotel seen. Not clear if there is another way to turn it off as I explained.

My only complaint is that this hotel reception is small and only a few metres from the front door, which means that if there is a very small queen and the receptionist (male) spoke in a whisper and had to ask him about any guests I can pick up, he repeated that the other (male) younger man at the front desk looked like he just got a new one, his house was taken away, there was no good reception from this new body, otherwise everything was fine.