Anyhoo, just down the hill from the theatre nestles this rather beautiful building where I took refuge from all the scary blue stuff in the sky and enjoyed a second breakfast and the Guardian Book Review in their elegant coffee and cake house.
This photo also contains a surprising hidden gem: a teeny-tiny arthouse cinema - The Noverre - lurks inside the white building on the right.
You go in through the middle one of the three doors you can see (blow up the photo and you might make out "NOVERRE" over the door) and the cinema is straight ahead of you, housed in the red brick building you can just see on the right of the picture.
No popcorn (yay)!
As well as being a haunt for the caffeine-and-cake-deprived, the main building - known as The Assembly House - boasts a spiffy banqueting hall, a music room for chamber concerts (it's been going a while; Liszt and Paganini both played there), a pair of ballrooms and a rather fine restaurant.
Boffo all round.
Come and visit.
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That is very, very tempting. Except I happen to know that it will not have sun shining on it again for a year.
But it is filled with so many nice things to do to while it's raining outside.
True. Perhaps, should there be a storm, we can have our coffee and cake indoors.
I'll go reserve the comfy chairs by the window.
It's odd, but I've always had a little crush on Paganini since I read about him in elementary school and heard his music played. I'd just love to be in a place where he appeared (playing to many swooning young women) and imagine the scene. Ahhh.
Ah, the skinny, wild-haired gypsy look always wows the gals. Plus the man could … er … fiddle like nobody else.
What wonderful buildings. I would love to see a concert or a film there.
Come on over, Neetzy.
Sounds like a wonderful place for culture and cuisine.
Good photo, too, with the fresh blue sky, sunlight and shadow.
I hope the sun hangs around for a bit.
Thanks, Ms.M. The sun hung around for those two days and then it's been thundery, cloudy, cool and rainy ever since. It's the suckiest year ever for weather here.
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