Dining in Style: The Magnificent V&A Refreshment Rooms
If you think museum cafes are all about soggy sandwiches and lukewarm coffee, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London is here to politely correct you. Tucked away within its […]
St Michael and All Angels – A Reformation Survivor
A visit to Barton Turf in Norfolk to see the rare medieval rood screen
The Jewel of the Strand: Discovering St Mary-le-Strand
An overview of St Mary-le-Strand church in London, the most beautiful of its kind in the world.
A Break at Bolsover
Instead of driving straight for eight hours up the M1 to Northumberland the other week, I decided to take a break at Bolsover for a change. I’d read that it’s […]
Pompeii
Pompeii is one of the most extraordinary archaeological sites in the world—a Roman city frozen in time by the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. Before the disaster […]
Herculaneum
Tucked beneath the slopes of Mount Vesuvius, Herculaneum (Ercolano) offers one of the most intimate and haunting windows into Roman daily life. Unlike its larger neighbour Pompeii, Herculaneum was overwhelmed […]
Capri
Perched like a jewel off the Sorrentine Peninsula, Capri has captivated visitors for over two thousand years. Its history began in earnest under the Romans: Emperor Tiberius made Capri his […]
Sorrento
Just got back from the Bay of Naples, where I enjoyed a week at the excellent hilltop Grand Hotel Aminta, with a fine view of Vesuvius and – if I […]
Midyat – A Living Cultural Mosaic
Midyat, in Turkey’s Mardin Province, sits on a sun-baked plateau overlooking the plains of southeastern Anatolia. As the cultural heart of the Tur Abdin region, Midyat is a living mosaic […]
Mardın – A bit of old Syria in Eastern Turkey
On my late tour of eastern Anatolia, I was especially impressed with the historic core of Mardın. Tucked into the fertile Menderes valley, old Mardın preserves a layered past whose […]
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