A visit to Mediolanum Santonum (Saintes, France)

Having had my trip to ‘Roma Nova’ cancelled in June, I was thirsty for some Roman input. But it’s not easy going on a trip in the middle of a raging world pandemic.

However Saintes, in Charente Maritime, is only two hours by fast autoroute from where I live and still in the green zone […]

September 18th, 2020 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: France, Photos, Research, Roman life, Roman traditions, Romans, Travel | Leave a comment

Roma Nova trip was cancelled but now rebooked!

View from the Magdelensberg

(This post dates originally from 2020 – rinsed and repeated for 2021 and 2022, but the good news is that I AM going there in May/June 2023!)

At last! I was going to Roma Nova for my holiday in June; from 8-23 June 2020 to be precise.

Okay, I […]

May 8th, 2020 | Tags: , , , | Category: Alternative history, Interruptions, Photos, Research, Roma Nova, Romans, Travel | 3 comments

Roma Nova on Jo Frances Penn's Books and Travel podcast

Travel is a wide concept. It doesn’t just mean trotting up the steps to a plane or sitting back looking out of a train window, or even visiting entrancing and exotic places.

Travel can be in the mind, across hundreds or possibly thousands of years, into other realities and mentalities, even into an alternative […]

March 5th, 2020 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Category: Alternative history, Authors, Books, France, Insights, Latin, Other people's websites/blogs, Q&A, Roma Nova, Roman life, Roman traditions, Romans, Travel, Writing skills | Leave a comment
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