BBC at the Ally Pally
Alexandra Palace near where I live in North London was where the first TV broadcasts were made in the 1930s. There was a short interlude when the nasty Nazis had […]
Alexandra Palace near where I live in North London was where the first TV broadcasts were made in the 1930s. There was a short interlude when the nasty Nazis had […]
This is the single most important Roman artefact in Spain, and is the symbol of Segovia. Many things in this world lay dubious claim to being awesome, but this one […]
I just found out that I won the Olympus SZ-31MR camera with my winning tip about the Italian Lakes for the Saturday Guardian –
This astonishing construction in Seville is actually a semicircle 200 metres in diameter with two huge stylised towers at each end, like the skeleton of a Roman amphitheatre but without […]
This magnificent gun was captured by the British after the siege of Alexandria during the Napoleonic Wars, in 1801, and has been here since it was transported to Horse Guards […]
This museum in the Jewish Quarter of Toledo was opened in 1911. Built in the 16th century and consisting of two buildings constructed around a courtyard, it exudes the exquisite […]
Well emperors in Croatia’s case. Diocletian, who finally decided that enough was enough and that the Roman Empire was simply too big for one man to manage, decided to split […]
The main Bisagra gate into Toledo always reminds me of the Hammer horror films I was addicted to as a teenager. The huge round towers and massive gateway surmounted by […]