We have been working in Folkestone as well as Dover recently, as part of initiatives with The Dover War Memorial Project. We've seen a lot of the Triennial artworks, and there are quite a few also remaining from the last one to revisit.
The Triennial is fun, and evokes varying reactions - though one of my absolute favourites is the pragmatic from a helpful passerby, trying to direct us to one of the exhibits for "We Could Have Been Anything ...". Said he, noticing us wandering, rather lost - "Ah, they've just put in a new clock down there ... but it doesn't work very well!"
My favourites so far are the ships of "For Those in Peril ... " in St Eanswythe, the Sea Monster in the library, and "Towards the Sound of Wilderness", which is really quite a moving surprise - I'd really recommend a visit to that one. I also rather like the sonorous and mournful "Out of Tune" and the struggling "Work No 196". Simon, being far better at visuals than I am, thinks "The Colour of Water" is superb.
As well as good walks, you get also the chance to see parts of Folkestone not often on view, such as the Masonic Hall. This is very close to the Wetherspoons - the architecture there is most worth a visit too!
