I’ve recently visited the 2011 Folkestone Triennial titled A Million Miles From Home and really recommend it for a visit before it closes on 25th September. I liked the sense of adventure, map in hand, finding the art works and exploring the town. Cristina Iglesia’s Towards the Sound of Wilderness, a mirrored box like structure that allows viewing of one of Folkestone’s Martello Towers covered in Ivy was great to discover. Beautifully filmed, Promised Land, a three screen video by Danish film maker Nikolaj B S Larsen, which explores the plight of asylum seekers in and around Calais, was particularly moving.

AK Dolven’s tenor bell suspended on the beach was great and nearby you can visit the disused Harbour railway station where Paloma Varga Weisz has installed Rug People, a sculpture of a group of men, on the tracks – one visitor told me last time she was there it was to see the Orient Express.

I also really liked Everyone Means Something to Someone, initiated by local artists Strange Cargo, in which observations, narratives and facts about the town supplied by local people are displayed on 200 small plaques that you come across by chance.

There’s a lot to see in one day but maps and suggested routes are available from the train station and you follow the yellow stenciled seagulls on the pavement into town to the Triennial visitor centre. All information is on www.folkestonetriennial.org.uk and anyone from the London area can take advantage of the high speed train from St. Pancras that just takes 50 minutes.