December 2014: a week ago I was making my way with difficulty, due to the crush of crowds, through the
When I found this dramatic engraving of the Leaning Tower of Zaragoza, unknown to me, at a temporary antiques/junk stall
The Roman aqueduct in Segovia compels: "They Were Giants in Those Days." That aqueduct makes modern civilisation below it look
Cristina has a new camera, an Olympus Stylus 1, which I would call the apple of her eye, except that
In 1958, aged 14 years and 11 months, I escaped from England for the first time, on a school trip
I'm stealing my title from the 1000+ page bestseller by Eugène Sue, Les Mystères de Paris, serialised during 1842
During 2012 we first flew direct from Asturias to Lisbon and then, later in the year, Charo drove us and
We visited a chilly Venice just before early Easter 2013 (whereafter, all prices would jump, along with the volume
Cristina and I spent a week in remarkably friendly and laid-back Berlin this August of 2013. A woman with young
I had a great time in Catania, Sicily in September 2010 at the first ever SF con held on the
