A World Elsewhere

Every so often the traveller stumbles upon a location that almost leaps out at him (or her) and such it was with this peaceful cobbled str...

We’ve all met them, on planes or on trains, maybe at train stations or airport departure lounges, bores who insist on telling you every bor...

It is 10 a.m. on the eve of St Bartholomew’s Day, Tuesday 24th August 1604, as William Shakespeare leaves the house of Mountjoy, his ...

Boulevard des Batignolles, Paris As an avowed and unashamed people watcher, I once observed a Japanese tourist in a Paris bookshop, ...

Houses of Parliament by Monet On the tour itinerary of every visitor to London is the Westminster Debating Society, or as it also known,...

Earth Goddess Isis In France they talk of the 'thousand peaceful cities', 'les mille villes tranquilles'. Not because t...

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...