Month: April 2022

  • A Spring Weekend in Southern Sicily

    A Spring Weekend in Southern Sicily

    Travel restrictions are easing, the time has come to explore an interesting and little-visited part of Sicily, at its best in spring, with the meadows full of wild flowers; a place of great beauty, surprising places and people, and delicious food. A good base for your visit would be the…

  • The Colour Purple

    The Colour Purple

    Empires that tend to be large, and try to unite peoples of disparate ethnicities under one ruler, certainly have a communication problem, more so in antiquity when getting ideas around was a much slower business. The power, the benevolenceโ€”indeed the very existence of a new emperor had to be drummed…

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