Hallowe'en Blog Hop

Hallowe’en Blog Hop Trick or Treat giveaway

Do you dare to read something a little different, possibly alternative, and discover a whole new world? A touch of fear, lust or danger? Fantasy or thrillers? As Halloween is a tricksy time, it’s perfect timing to chance it.

Halloween, or All Hallows’ Eve, has Celtic origins rather […]

The Alternation of Rome

Triumphal arch, Roma Nova (Author photo)

Rome fascinates us, bewitches us even in the high tech 21st century.

It stretched for over 1229 years, it reached the heights (occasionally depths) of military achievement, produced the social, cultural and legal framework for the entire Western world, gave us its engineering genius and left us a richness in architecture, power politics, literature and […]

The Wonder of Rome

Coming soon! The Wonder of Rome blog hop

Over the weekend of 15-19 August, you will be able to visit eighteen sites displaying the wonder of Rome and trying to solve the mystery of why we are so attracted to a society that disappeared over 1600 years ago.

Or did it?

Come back here […]