A World Elsewhere

A couple of years ago I tried to learn Spanish but quickly gave it up. It wasn’t that the language was difficult, just impossible to pr...

Graham Greene (1904-1991) was one of the most celebrated and successful writers of the twentieth century. He began his long career as a nov...

Ponte Vittorio Emanuelle II with Castel Sant'Angelo in background To travel through time is a wonderful dream and an impossible real...

Intéreiur à la fenêtre ouverte Le Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nice has a fine collection of colourful paintings by the French artist Raoul ...

 Espace Masséna, Nice. In May 1980  I spent two aimless weeks tramping around the hinterland of Provence, visiting sites of Roman antiqu...

Lake Geneva No, I wasn't yodelling as I flew into Geneva for my first ever Swiss visit on 21 March 2006. We arrived at night an...