Tag: history posts

I have never traveled to Cyprus before, but my dear mum has been there several times as have many other Brits. It is essentially a...

It’s a wonderful world out there, stacked full of places you spend your life hearing about and hoping one day to visit. We all have...

You know the sights, you’ve done the back streets, you’ve even bought the T-shirt. So now you probably want to get away from the crowds...

Today we headed to the town of Noto, one of the eight towns in South-Eastern Sicily that were rebuilt after 1693 due to a huge...

I had been to Sicily some years ago, but it didn't “wow” me. We had visited Taormina and then travelled to Siracusa, Piazza Armerina, and...

The history of London is intrinsically linked to the large waterway that runs through its heart: the River Thames. It makes sense then, that a...

I'm just back from leading a "European War Tour" that took me and my group from California from the beaches of Normandy via Paris, Belleau...

Of many places in the world, I always find myself returning to the view that the city of Rome is amongst the most fascinating. My...

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears... Do I hear people running for cover? Do the words ‘William Shakespeare’ have you coming out in a...

Germany invented Christmas. Well, it's a bold assertion and of course by no means entirely accurate - but that said, many of the things we...