If you visit Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, prepare to be amazed the minute you walk in the door. The first thing to greet your eye is the fantastic, perspective warping work by Patrick Hughes, where the painting actually appears to move as you do, and you can look down three painting lined corridors simultaneously. […]
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It seemed that for many years St Pancras, the grand old brick-built Gothic revival railway station next door to King’s Cross (also a railway station for those of you not familiar with London), was a bit forlorn and forgotten, compared to its busy neighbour. But now, as I reported a while back, the station is […]
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Within Rome itself is the enclave known as the State of the Vatican City, which is the sovereign territory of the Holy See, the Pope. It is the smallest nation in the world, and even has representation in the United Nations, as a non-voting member state.
Within the Vatican City you can find the grand Saint […]
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Now that the New Year is almost upon us, it could be time to be considering a spring break, and where better to spend a few days, just as the weather is finally turning warmer, than the wonderful city of Rome?
The Eternal City is built on seven hills, on the River Tiber, and was lucky […]
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Belgrade, built at the point where the Sava and Danube Rivers join, is the capital and largest city of Serbia, and has quite a history of flux of different peoples. First settled by the Celts, then later by the Romans, Belgrade has been under Byzantine, Frankish, Bulgarian, Hungarian and Serbian rulers. It has been part […]
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Winter is coming to the UK, and it is as the autumn leaves start to fall that I turn my thoughts to escaping off to the south of France, where there are reasonably warm temperatures throughout the winter, or at least warm compared with England.
It seems that Vincent Van Gogh also found the south of […]
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For anyone contemplating travel in Europe and visiting its most famous sights, sooner or later you are going to come face-to-face with the Renaissance, particularly in the form of the great works of art, and architecture, that date from that period. However, the Renaissance was not just a movement in art, but was an intellectual […]
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Vienna, the capital of Austria, and its largest city, is famous for its long artistic traditions, and cultural sophistication, being particularly highly regarded for its music, theater and opera. Vienna has long been regarded as being the capital of European classical music, with such great names as Mozart, Beethoven and Strauss having associations with the […]
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Claimed to be the most romantic city in the world, and popular with honeymooners, no tour of Europe could possibly be complete without a visit to Paris, which has such an abundance of sights to see, and things to enjoy that you could quite easily spend a month or more here.
Standing majestic […]
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The city of Barcelona, with its sunny location on the Mediterranean, famous Gaudi architecture, top nightlife, abundance of culture, and wonderful restaurants, has become one of the most popular destinations in Europe for a city break, with many people returning there regularly, and a significant number of Europeans considering Barcelona as a place to relocate […]
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