EWT Executive Committee 47 to be held in Bergen-op-Zoom 3rd - 6th June 2015 (REVISED Registration Date)

Register by clicking here. Looking forward to a good turnout for important meeting for future of EWT  See version of full flyer with how to get there by train (and plane) Bergen-op-Zoom in the South of the Netherlands - nearer Antwerp (in Belgium) than Amsterdam - looks a fine place to visit and company will be excellent as always!

World Heritage Cities and personal identity as 'walled city'

Matthias Ripp from Regensburg opens discussion of World Heritage Cities with his valuable model of an annual network report; I've also just discovered Grayson Perry's (Turner Prize winner) amazing walled city metaphor self 'portrait' called Map of Days newly acquired by Bath's Victoria Art Gallery thanks to their Friends and the ArtFund. You really need to see the original to find your way round the streets, rivers and features, named for his personality traits but you may be able to make out some on the bigger version below. His inspired re-imagination of the walled town for the 21st Century suggests the basis for a 'walled towns in art and culture' exhibition at a future Symposium perhaps at the World Heritage City of Valletta or even the Lowry inspiring Berwick-upon Tweed.

Linda Thorpe of Conwy

Very sad to have to report death of Linda Thorpe but I have found a lovely picture of her taken in Ozmangazi, Turkey in 2009 and Vicky Macdonald has contributed a splendid appreciation see obituaries page.