Life's about experiences. These are mine.
Another walking the streets of Rome and today we headed towards the Vatican. We have been told that the weather back home has finally turned but it is still lovely here with the top temps getting into the mid to high twenties. Despite this the locals were already beginning to wrap up with scarves and …
Today was a bit of a departure from the norm in that while we did all the usual touristy things we also went to a museum to see and exhibition of the works of MC Escher. His work fascinates me and is some of the most accessible art that I have come across. Part of …
Today we ventured further afield with a trip to Ostia Antica, the old port town of Roman Rome which had been recommended to us. To get there required a couple of tubes and an overground train. Coming from London it is always a shock to find a major city with only two tube lines, in …
There is a standing joke at home that major sites of interest only receive an update requiring a coving of scaffolding when we are to holiday there. So it was today at the Trevi Fountain and it was a considerable undertaking there too. It almost looked like a rebuild. Of course the thing about the …
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I’d forgotten just how long it can take to reach a destination with so many forms of transport involved. Today was no exception leaving home just after 8am and not arriving at our hotel in Rome until 4pm local time. A journey that included trains, planes, automobiles, Shank’s Pony and pods! The pods are the …
There is plenty of great free music from well known and up and coming artists if you know where to look for it and this month most of it was in that category. This months additions are: Man May’d – Living at the Speed of Love Paul Carrack – The Best of Paul Carrack U2 – Songs of Innocence Joe Bonamassa – Amazon …
Over the last few days the skies have been filled with the sounds of military helicopters flying overhead – a very unusual sound for Reading. I just happened to be outside today when I spotted not one but seven coming across all together. In fact, as you can see, they were flying in formation. I have …