In my last post, I wrote about, and included some pictures, of my climb to the top of Zadar’s highest building, the Bell Tower at the Cathedral of St Anastasia. I gushed about how the ascent to the top of this fine bell tower afforded some fantastic views over the Old Town and across the sea to the islands that lie off Zadar. Even before I started the…
I am writing this as I zoom towards Paris on the Eurostar. My head is a mess as I try to recall as much schoolboy French as I can muster. After my English native tongue (and waving my hands about as a British Sign Language user) French is probably the foreign language I feel I know best. But after 5 years of secondary school rote sentence learning…Je parle…
I know I said that this blog isn’t about me writing about all the places I’ve visited; thus, leaving many readers relying on this site as a cure for insomnia. Nevertheless, I thought it might be nice to review my year in travel so far and, rather than blather on about all the amazing neoclassical churches I visited or the many sites of Etruscan interest I encountered, I had the…