Ribblehead

Ribbelhead is the quintessential example of how the Settle – Carlisle Railway was built. Its station is nowhere near a … More

Grand day out

One of the reasons the Settle – Carlisle Railway is now well used is that it makes the most of … More

The Settle to Carlisle train actually starts in Leeds and ought to be called the Leeds to Carlisle train. However, … More

I had not visited Belgium before. Not properly. I had passed through it many times while driving from Germany to … More

While on the topic of extraordinary buildings of the 1950s, I finally visited the Atomium earlier this year. I remember … More

Why the authors of the article in “Die Denkmalpflege” magazine of 2016 chose the first part of this title is … More

Yes, not a vote to change the country, but to join a country. That’s what happened in 1955 in the … More

The Saarland is the smallest of the “area states” in Germany. The Federal Republic is made up of 16 states … More

I didn’t want to cause any alarm with the title of this blog so separated the two words, which in … More

Another precisely designed part of the gardens in Versailles is the Orangery. When we were there in April, the process … More