Category: Travel

The Temple of Hephaestus

As Loriners will know Hephaestus was the patron god of metal working no doubt including the parts wrought in metal on a horse’s harness such as bits, bridles and stirrups. And as everyone knows the Greeks were riding horses more than a thousand years before the Birth of Christ.

Taking the Blue Line

The metro system in Athens is not complicated – just three lines: green, red and blue, as easy as one, two, three and indeed that’s what they are called.

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Not Busy Lizzie

Infrastructure is one of those long words like perspicacity and marmalade.

The Wreck

Brancaster is a lovely spot (the blue spot) on the Norfolk Riviera with salt marshes, plenty of birds dibbling and dabbling thereon, marvellous skyscapes (although we didn’t yet see the Northern Lights) and more.

Wulff

I read a review of this last year and didn’t want to read what sounded like a shabby little shocker about Benjamin Britten seducing a teenage German boy in 1938.

A Place in the Rain

”Baroness Caterina de Renzis and her late husband, Baron Alessandro de Renzis Sonnino, first saw Castello Sonnino … in 1988. The estate with its 16th century villa had just been left to Alessandro by a childless uncle; in its 500 years of existence, it had been variously inhabited by Frescobaldis, Machiavellis and Strozzis, as well… Continue reading A Place in the Rain

Bel Canto in Bergamo

“The city of Bergamo is composed of an old walled core, known as Città Alta (“Upper Town”), nestled within a system of hills, and the modern expansion in the plains below. The upper town is encircled by massive Venetian defensive systems that are a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 9 July 2017.” (Wikipedia)