Carlisle cathedral

One of the sights of Carlisle I didn’t talk about in last week’s post was its cathedral. I felt it … More

Sunny Carlisle

On reaching the end of the Settle – Carlisle railway line at Carlisle, the sun came out providing lovely views … 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

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

Although I have been to and through Paris on a number of occasions, this April was the first time I … More

Not the ones in Bath, England, but the Caracalla baths in Rome. Both obviously built by Romans with the objective … More

Of course it isn’t possible to count as a proper tourist visitor to Rome without going to see this, even … More

When seeing images of the Trevi fountain in Rome, it always appears big and spacious with a sense that there … More

Since my visit to the Piazza di Spagna, the rules around sitting on the steps have changed and visitors are … More