In interpreting its own age art often turns to the past. At the beginning of the twentieth century one of these encounters between present and past was prompted by the interest a major figure in German modernism, the sculptor Ernst Barlach, came to take in the medieval epic The Song of the Nibelungen.
Stretching from Stratford-Upon-Avon down to Oxford and across to Bath, the Cotswolds takes its name from the range of grassy limestone hills between the River Severn in the west and Oxford in the east. So why not visit the penguins at Birdlands, the house where Shakespeare was born or take a ride on ...
