Images of Rome and Ostia Antica. March 2018. “Rome is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, within Lazio (Latium), along the shores of the Tiber. The Vatican City is an independent country inside the city boundaries of Rome, the only existing example of a country within a city: for this reason Rome […]
Images of Amsterdam. December 2017. “Amsterdam is the capital and most populous municipality of the Netherlands. Its status as the capital is mandated by the Constitution of the Netherlands, although it is not the seat of the government, which is The Hague. Amsterdam has a population of 851,373 within the city proper. “Its name derives […]
“Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899 – 1961) was an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel […]
I’m always interested in what books people like or dislike, so here’s my list of 34 books read in 2017 and a brief verdict. Not so many compared to 2016 as that total came to 46 books. But who’s counting? (* Indicates it has been read before.) Five stars The Human Factor, Graham Greene, 1978Comanches: […]
Images of Los Angeles. October 2017. “Los Angeles (Spanish for ‘The Angels’) is the cultural, financial, and commercial centre of Southern California. With a US Census-estimated 2016 population of 3,976,322, it is the second most populous city in the United States (after New York City) and the most populous city in the state of California. […]
Images of Niagara Falls. October 2017. “Niagara Falls is the collective name for three waterfalls that straddle the international border between Canada and the United States; more specifically, between the province of Ontario and New York state. They form the southern end of the Niagara Gorge. “From largest to smallest, the three waterfalls are the […]
If you read the British newspapers you may be forgiven for thinking that violent crime is lurking on every street corner. While the chances of such an event happening to you are rare, the reality is still very unpleasant. Since living in London since 2011, I have noticed the fear, aggression and tension in people. […]
Images of Oxford. August 2017. “Oxford is a city in the South East region of England and the county town of Oxfordshire. The city is known worldwide as the home of the University of Oxford, the oldest university in the English-speaking world. Buildings in Oxford demonstrate notable examples of every English architectural period since the […]
Images of Kronborg Castle, the M/S Maritime Museum and Frederiksborg Castle. June 2017. “Kronborg is a castle and stronghold in the town of Helsingør. Immortalised as Elsinore in William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. The castle is situated on the extreme northeastern tip of the island of Zealand at the narrowest point of the Øresund, the sound […]
Images of Marrakesh. April 2017. “Officially known as the Kingdom of Morocco (Arabic: al-Mamlakah al-Maghribiyah, lit. ‘The Western Kingdom’), is a sovereign country located in the Maghreb region of North Africa. Geographically, Morocco is characterised by a rugged mountainous interior, large tracts of desert, and a lengthy coastline along the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. […]