Public bathing – My visit to the past

Painting of Baths of Caracalla by Laurence Alma Tadema

Baths were such an intrinsic part of the Roman world that we can’t think of one without the other. Everybody went to the baths – everybody. Read how here.

Well, none of us like to smell. A recent trip to the former bathhouse in […]

60,000 miles more Roman roads!

Roaman road near Ambrussum, southern Gaul

Scientific journal Nature has just published a high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire by an international group of academics that suggests a much more extensive Road network than we could have imagined.

The new map – an online database called Itiner-e – has been compiled […]

A trip to Mel's Dresden

Alison Morton and Anna Belfrage at the Basteibrücke

Schloßstraße, Dresden

Earlier in June, I waxed lyrical about Dresden in southeast Germany which was the scene for several chapters in my latest thriller Double Stakes. Never having been there, I had written heroine Mel and hero Jeff’s scenes using Google Maps.

What a shocking admission!

Moving a character through a place needs […]