Sailing to Ithaka
A typhoon passed across Greece last night with tragic consequences in Thrace. The stormy weather brought new light to the Straits of...
An earthquake heralds a new Government
At 6.49 this morning a truck seemed to crash into the upper floor of our house. Half awake, I knew instantly what it was. I rushed to the...
Small Things Not-Forgotten
Herculaneum. The unprepossessing 1970s antiquarium at Herculaneum was intended to be a museum. But this never happened and crowds of...
Easter egg hunts at Stourhead
Easter egg hunts have brought swarms of families to Stourhead on a radiant April day. How Richard Colt Hoare (1758-1838) would have...
Investing in the Romans at Chedworth
I have been visiting Chedworth Roman villa on and off for half a century. One of the walks featured in my 1975 book, Walks in the...
Celebrating the Box Archaeological and Natural History Society
52 years ago Henry Hurst, a young postgraduate at London University, arrived in my village to undertake an emergency excavation on a...
ROME’S SMALL THINGS FORGOTTEN II
Not so many walking routes taken you over Tiber Island. But once there you discover a hamlet on a minuscule footprint elevated high above...
ROME’S SMALL THINGS FORGOTTEN I
It is too easy to take Rome for granted. Huge monumental ruins dwarfing the smaller details soon become the stuff of living or visiting...
In praise of Bellum Aquilarum - Onlus
Sexten lies in the Alto Adige today, but it was on the Austrian front in 1915 when war broke out between the Austro-Hungarian Empire and...
Dog poop depositories – a sign of things to come?
Fifty-three weeks since I was last on this old frontier line between Austria and Italy. Fort Mitterberg was constructed in the 1870s to...
