I spent a week in the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, recently. It was my first time in this interesting country, the only Western European state that I hadn’t visited before. I wasn’t really there on holiday, enjoyable though it was, I…
Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon Portugal When I was in Portugal the other week for a poetry workshop, I had a free Sunday and decided to spend it at the impressive Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon. This dramatic Modernist…
It all started last summer when I booked a two week holiday in Venice but let my finger slip on the British Airways website only to find that when I went for my return flight I had mistakenly bought a…
I didn’t go to Venice for the wisteria last week. I didn’t know about it. April in Venice has many wonders but these wonderful plants, in full bloom, were more than just an added bonus. Take a look at…
Here in my final blog about a splendid week’s holiday in the South of France, I’ll let my camera do the talking but it should be sufficient to tell you that I spent a memorable Monday visiting the beautiful city…
My week in Sète, in the Languedoc-Roussillon region of Southern France, was quietly pleasure-filled. There was a lot to do and to see including the glorious city of Montpellier (the subject of a later blog) but there was also…
Le musée Paul Valéry, Sète One of my greatest pleasures in travelling is visiting different towns and exploring their art galleries. It was no different on my recent trip to Sète in the south of France and I soon found…
Last week, I got back from seven days in the delightful Mediterranean town of Sète in the Languedoc-Roussillon region of Southern France where I rented an apartment over-looking the Marina in this small port town which is punctuated with canals…
One of the many advantages of living where I do, in Lewes, UK, is that I have open country less than a five minutes walk from my front door. The sunny February weather has been just too beautiful to…
It seems that I was not alone in enjoying the beautiful February sunshine in Lewes’ Southover Grange Gardens yesterday – and why not, early Springtime impulses are all about couples sitting on park benches with a bottle of wine…