This alchemy takes place in a small sky-blue tower painted with fluffy clouds.
The rooftop water tower painted to suggest Necco's pastel candy wafers, a familiar Cambridge landmark, will be retained.
But xenophobes should get over it and refocus their attention on getting to the festival — let the water tower painted like a strawberry be your guide — early enough to sample the local fare.
Entire families flocked to the face-paint stand, with children excitedly showing off the Eiffel Tower painted on their cheeks, while others played games of pétanque and croquet in the grass - a quaint touch.
One of the oldest Buddhist monuments in the world, the Svayambhu is a solid, whitewashed hemisphere of brick and packed rubble surmounted by a square tower painted with pairs of eyes on all four sides.
However many rave write-ups the hotel got, I didn't think there were enough visitors willing to pay £94 and up for a room which, if you didn't pay a hefty supplement, gave you a view not across the bay to the Lake District hills, but of Johnny's Fun Factory, a tower painted like a packet of Polos housing a mobile phone mast (a curious relic from the Frontierland days) and a cluster of pound shops.
— There are water towers painted to look like ears of corn, shaped like ketchup bottles, clad in Gothic stonework or advertised as "the world's tallest Corinthian column".
Cameras clicked continuously inside the room, but outside, where the team's multi-million-dollar training facility – one of the finest in Italy – spread for acres, where transmission towers painted the national colours of green, white, and red stretched endlessly in the distance, it was quiet.
"We were led to believe that the chateau was constructed in 1740," she says, but a little more digging -- literally -- revealed a set of medieval towers, painted beams and ceilings that show the property was actually a fort during the religious wars.
Neil has found a remote bell tower to paint, so I decide to hide out with him and maybe work up my earlier rubbish into an abstract, which instinct tells me is harder to be bad at, though possibly easier to mock.
