When our friend Mike from the UKPaperArts list learned that we were planning to visit Charleston during our quick trip to London, he very kindly offered to be our tour guide for the day. This was very generous of him as he had to leave home early in the morning to meet us in his car at Kings Cross. He then drove us all the way down to East Sussex where we had a wonderful tour of the house, Charleston where so may of the famous Bloomsbury group met over the years that Vanessa Bell and her family lived and worked there. We were fortunate to be visiting on a day when a special tour was offered - known as the Sisters Tour. In addition to the usual rooms of the house that are open to visitors, we were able to visit the studio as well as the kitchen. The focus of the tour was the special relationship that existed between the sisters - Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf. Virginia and her husband Leonard lived quite close by.
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