A few days in the country – Kyre Park, Worcestershire
Have you ever been deafened by silence? The silence at Kyre is total, no motor-way noise, no 21st century, just…
From Berlin to Prague – May 2024
As a freelance lecturer on the Decorative and Fine Arts, I get to go on some fascinating trips. This one…
February 2022 Newsletter
Like the melting ice on the River Neva in Russia, the travel log-jamb caused by the multitudinous and confusing Covid…
A Few Days Around Rutland Water
There has just been an advertising campaign encouraging visitors to Northamptonshire citing amongst other things the plethora of country houses,…
The Rothschild Tour and the Vale of Aylesbury
This tour included a visit to the church of North Marston which at one time was the third most-visited shrine…
Apethorpe: A Mansion Revived
It seems hard to believe that a spectacular house like Apethorpe could be forgotten, neglected, and brought to the verge…
From Prague to Berlin
Two of Central Europe’s most fascinating cities, and a cruise between the two to view sights which are not on the usual tourist trail.
Firstly the journey is not as easy as it sounds as the cities are not directly …
A Few Days in Menton
Do you remember the Rum Baba? It used to be a standard on the Dessert Trolleys which whizzed round the dining rooms of hotels in my youth. I suppose they are banned now (dessert trolleys, I mean) as being a …
Miss Beatrice’s Pink Palace
Beatrice de Rothschild and the Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild, Cap Ferrat.
On Cap Ferrat, it sits like a cherry on the top of a trifle, the pink palace of Beatrice de Rothschild. The views from it and of it are …
A Few Days in Edinburgh – May 2015
How proud Scotland should be of its National Gallery on Edinburgh’s Mound. This handsome Greek Revival building by William Playfair is one of the most intimate of great world museums, thanks to Timothy Clifford’s splendid recreation of the original interiors. …