Lost Children

by | Jul 7, 2014 | art, childhood, General interest, history, museums, people, travel

We’ve climbed the tower which the eccentric William Beckford built so he could escape from the social whirl of early 19th-century Bath to contemplate, in solitary brooding, the hills around the city, the Mendip hills of the Neolithic inhabitants long before the...

What is Tuscia

by | May 11, 2014 | art, General interest, history, Italy, museums, people, theatre

There was talk about Viterbo being the capital of ‘Tuscia’. I wasn’t quite sure which area it referred to. Today was the day we would venture out into this area, moving east to explore the hilltop towns of Lugnano and Amelia, better known to some as a girl’s name, now...