Kestevan said:
One other thing.... The sculpture park is best avoided. The place is badly sign-posted, and they've tried to hide he cafe, probably ashamed at the outrageous prices.
Oh, and looking at some of the "installations" only gets Colin wound up
We wandered about trying to find the restaurant/cafe. There were signs for 'The Underground Gallery' and that kind of thing but we didn't see a single one for the cafe!
By trial and error we finally located the cafe. We got quite a few strange looks from the massed crowds of art lovers.
Who are these sweaty men in lycra?
My sandwich was very nice but £4.50 was a steep price to pay. My sandwich, cake and coffee came to £9.05 which is more than I could really afford. In fact, I had to dig right down into my small change and only just had enough to pay my bill! (5p to spare)
Garz said:
We saw a tripod next to a large black circle in the grass. We couldn't work out whether a surveyor had just stopped for a break or whether it was in fact a work of art, but there you go.
A big red metal cone with another big piece of red metal next to it was clearly 'art', where art is defined as 'It doesn't have a purpose, isn't natural and didn't get there by accident'!
Eventually we were ensconced in the cafe next to a wall displaying photographs of some of the 'works'. Deeply moving works such as a sign bearing the stimulating thoughts "We see through our eyes. We hear through our ears." Wow - I was so intrigued, I almost forgot to eat my sandwich! (Did I tell you that it cost
£4.50?). In a flash of artistic brilliance, aJ came up with the concept of a sister work - a sheet of A3 paper on which he would write "We smell through our noses. We ride on our bikes." He has a bright future in
The Art World!
Person 1: "Is that pile of bricks a work of art?"
Person 2: "How can we tell just by looking at the bricks?"
Person 1: "Well it's either art or it isn't!"
Person 2: "No, no, no! If an artist bought the bricks from a builders yard and installed them in the gallery - that is art. If delivery men merely dumped them there for builders to use in the new gallery extension, then they remain nothing more than a pile of bricks!"
Person 1: "Oh, I understand now - thank you - my life is enriched beyond measure!"
Philistine remarks aside, I actually think that the Park is very nice and would be good for a family visit. If you can afford the prices in the cafe then that is worth a visit too (if you can find it!). I just don't think it is a good place to stop on a CC forum ride.
I've decided that there will have to be changes for the ride on the 9th...
We didn't like the very busy uphill A-road to get to the Sculpture Park and the cafe was too expensive. Also - the ride took too long and I ended up riding back in the dark so I think I'll forget about the Sculpture Park and shorten the route. Oh, and I'm not going through Sowerby Bridge again when crowds of drunks are out and about. 75% of the route will be the same on the 9th May though. We'll need to find a suitable cafe once I've finalised the route.
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