Nick de Lacy-Brown

Happily Artistic, suitably Lawyeristic, Modern Renaissance Man

[Nick de Lacy-Brown @NickdeLacyBrown]

@nicnacnootoo @britishmuseum Same!! What a nightmare! Never queued for so long to get absolutely zero at the end. Appreciate these things happen but what is the resolution for the hundreds affected and unable to see a show they waited months for? @britishmuseum please get in touch with a resolution.

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@WongDouglas @britishmuseum In exactly the same situation - what absolute chaos. The tapestry was within touching distance only to be marched away.

[Nick de Lacy-Brown @NickdeLacyBrown]

The Daily Norm is kicking off 2019 (better late than never!) with something of a carnival-coloured bang, by launching a Venetian season to knock back the winter blues, and add something of the decadence and Casanova spirit of La... https://t.co/HWdq8MGn6g

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It's incredible to think that a year has gone by since I last undertook the rather enviable task of looking back on a year of incredible travel, enriching experience and fulfilling creativity. Yet here I am again, with... https://t.co/dRbhFtnomN

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For a city trip at Christmas time, Bruges in Belgium pretty much has it all. Christmas markets...tick! Mulled wine (laced with amaretto - serious yum)...tick! Cute medieval houses surrounded by quaint... https://t.co/NC6hr71k8o

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After a rather soggy start to our weekend sojourn in Bruges, the sun, when it came, cannot have been more welcome. As always happens when the depressing influence of cloud breaks and the atmosphere... https://t.co/yrkRvUjPAj

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When you think of Belgium, many things come to mind: The EU, Tintin's quiff, multiple beers and meticulously handmade lace. But of all Belgium's exports, perhaps its most famous and certainly most... https://t.co/cwADImOOzj

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I always knew that I wanted to see Bruges (or Brugge) at Christmas time. Famed for its UNESCO protected idyllic old town, interlaced with canals which fill the city with all the charms of Venice mixed with... https://t.co/giJpXrAGI5

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Readers of my Budapest compendium cannot be at a loss to know that Budapest is a city formed of two halves (well three parts actually, if you count the old city of Óbuda into the... https://t.co/grAntxKvfh

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Funnily enough, I was inspired to paint Budapest by our hotel bathroom. Simple, understated but insuperably elegant, the bathroom of the Callas House boutique hotel featured beautiful gold fittings offset... https://t.co/HljieasaRH

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Our trip to Budapest was so fleeting that we never really had the opportunity to delve into the wealth of history which the city boats, and less still pour through the pages of a guidebook. Given that... https://t.co/9LR2T7qFyh

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I didn't know what to expect when I jetted off from London to Budapest. It was to be my first time in Hungary, let alone its capital city, but my ignorance made the discovery all the richer, as I found... https://t.co/ysyLLyjnuu

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The Norms have come to the end of their Verona trip, and if they had heels, they would have dragged them deep indeed to stay a little longer in this magical city. Sentimental as ever, the Norms are marking... https://t.co/OrhrzCWTZT

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We've left Verona now, more's the pity, and in my mind the single antidote is to dip into Italy once more. In London, sips of creamy limoncello and a bottle or two of Valpolicella Ripasso is partial recompense for our... https://t.co/Bd12jYYnct

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Despite their curving frame and voluptuous figures, Norms are far from kinky, and they don't really go for crass language, vulgar innuendo, or sexy lingerie either. So for these rather morose little figures, the... https://t.co/TzeVDwWWmF

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It's something of a contradiction in terms, that two Gentlemen in Verona were not in Verona at all, but should have ventured swiftly onwards to Italy's great Lake Garda. However, the location... https://t.co/n1HduSpzZA

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The Norms are enjoying Verona like no city before or since, and are in fact so guilty of over-indulgence at the Giardino Giusti that they fell asleep among the lush box tree hedges, and work up... https://t.co/8oAlcK9ywe

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There's nothing quite like the experience of viewing a city from above. In a single sweeping 360 degree motion, you can admire an entire landscape sweeping out before you, appreciating its scale and... https://t.co/YaDLLU1xz9

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"There are four main churches in Verona", our hostess told us, "and you must visit them all." Not two Gentlemen to take advice lightly, we decided we had better do just that.... https://t.co/qcsR0oUEYL

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The Norms are never far behind me. It's almost as though they live parallel lives. For the Norms have just arrived in Verona, to determine for themselves just how good this famed Italian city really is.... https://t.co/KFkl6lfD4b