Images of Tewkesbury, Hereford and Stratford-upon-Avon. April 2019. “Tewkesbury is a market town and civil parish in Gloucestershire. It stands at the confluence of the River Severn and the River Avon, and also minor tributaries the Swilgate and Carrant Brook. “Hereford is a cathedral city, civil parish and county town of Herefordshire. It lies on […]
Images of Worcester, Bristol and Puzzlewood. April 2019. “Worcester is a city in Worcestershire. The River Severn flanks the western side of the city centre, which is overlooked by Worcester Cathedral. “Bristol borders North Somerset and South Gloucestershire, with the cities of Bath and Gloucester to the south-east and north-east, respectively. South Wales lies across […]
Images of Sydney. October 2018. “Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia and Oceania. “Indigenous Australians have inhabited the Sydney area for at least 30,000 years, and thousands of engravings remain throughout the region, making it one of the richest in Australia in terms of Aboriginal […]
Images of Auckland and Hobbiton Movie Set. October 2018. “Auckland is a city in the North Island of New Zealand. It is the largest urban area in the country. The Māori-language name for Auckland is Tāmaki or Tāmaki-makau-rau, meaning ‘Tāmaki with a hundred lovers’, in reference to the desirability of its fertile land at the […]
It’s simple – here’s my list of 38 books read in 2018 and a brief verdict. Not an incredible number as a fair amount of my time is spent writing. (* Indicates it has been read before.) Five stars The Jewish War, Josephus, c. 75 ADThe Emperor, Ryszard Kapuściński, 1978The Four Voyages, Christopher Columbus, 1492-1504The […]
Images of Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon. October 2018. “Las Vegas (Spanish for ‘The Meadows’) is the 28th-most populated city in the United States, the most populated city in the state of Nevada, and the county seat of Clark County. It was settled in 1905 and officially incorporated in 1911. “The Grand Canyon is […]
Images of Prague. September 2018. “Prague is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of 2.6 million. […]
“Titus Livius Patavinus (or simply Livy) was a Roman historian. He wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people – Ab Urbe Condita Libri (Books from the Foundation of the City) – covering the period from the earliest legends of Rome before the traditional foundation in 753 BC through the reign of Augustus […]
Images of Köln, Augustusburg and Falkenlust Palaces, Bonn and Düsseldorf. June 2018. “Cologne (German: Köln) is the largest city of Germany’s most populous federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Cologne was founded and established in Ubii territory in the 1st century AD as the Roman Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium, the first word of which is the […]
Images of Miami, the Everglades and the Keys in Florida. April 2018. “Miami is a major port city on the Atlantic coast of south Florida in the southeastern United States. It is nicknamed the ‘Capital of Latin America’ and is the largest city with a Cuban-American plurality. The Miami area was inhabited for thousands of […]