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Matt le Blanc (Joey from Friends)

Jun2

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Cipriani Hotel in Venice

He was on his honeymoon with his new wife at the same hotel that I was at with my boyfriend in Venice, Italy. He and his stunning woman were lying on the deck chairs two metres away from us. She's really tall and really really slim whereas he has unfrotunately been piling on the pounds and has a new goatee (looks quite good... I mean the beard, NOT the pot-belly...) Anyway, they were drinking pina-coladas and sunbathing... I needless to say took about 200 ever-so-subtle photos with my camera phone (just looked like i was texting - crafty) x

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Folkestone triennial

Sep26

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Rundown resort? How dare they!

Bit of a tongue in cheek story here in the Guardian about the launch of (is that an art festival every three years?). Particularly hilarious is their attempt to compare Folkestone with Venice towards the end of the article... I recommend ignoring the intro which starts:

To many Folkestone is nothing but the unprepossessing place one once passed through in order to take a ferry to somewhere more glamorous.


and let's concentrate more on things like

... plans to transform Folkestone into a prosperous hub of arts and culture are under way. Yesterday the inaugural Folkestone triennial was announced, a public art project to involve commissions by a blue-chip line-up of artists including , , , and from Britain, and international figures such as and .


? I don't believe it... and who on earth is ex drummer Thunderstick?

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Venice hoofs Folkestone out of the record books

Apr7
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Venice has hoofed Folkestone out of the record books, now a Turner painting of the Grand Canal in Venice has become his most expensive work, at over twenty million quid. Previously it was a view of Folkestone, sold in 1984 for somewhere around nine million dollars.

The Times reports:

Giudecca, La Donna della Salute and San Giorgio, a view of the Grand Canal in Venice from the island of Giudecca in the Venetian lagoon, had not been in seen in public for more than 30 years when it was put on display at Christie's in London last year.

Expected to fetch around £11 million, the painting easily surpassed the previous record sum paid for a British work: the $21,153,800 (£12m) that purchased John Constable’s The Lock in 1990.

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Events:

Folkestone Literary Festival Event - John Julius Norwich 08 Nov John Julius Norwich - The Middle Sea, A History of the Mediterranean. Venue: Folkestone Academy. Tickets: £8/£7 A marvellous writer who has already tackled Byzantium, the Normans in Sicily and Venice, John Julius Norwich spins his magic in this story

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A Merchant of Venice Heartbreak Productions 18 Aug Heartbreak Productions. Amphitheatre - Lower Leas Coastal Park, Folkestone. 19:00

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Red Priest: Nightmare in Venice - A Baroque Fantasy Gulbenkian Theatre 11 Mar

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