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Saturday, 30 January 2016

Rome's Tier 2 galleries yield surprises and peace

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I know few European capitals as well as I know Rome. And yet the city barely features in this blog. All of my lengthy exploration took plac...
Sunday, 10 January 2016

National Gallery shows us a different, brighter Goya

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Judging from the shoulder-to-shoulder crowds at the National Gallery, my resolve to slip in to see the Goya exhibit before it closed was a c...
Wednesday, 30 December 2015

British Museum shows there's more than you thought to those Celts

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Two shows at the British Museum are worthy of your attention if your New Year's resolution includes incorporating a bit more culture int...
Thursday, 24 December 2015

The holiday roundup

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As ever with this time of year, my ratio of bloggable activities to spare time to write about them skews wildly out of balance.  The waistli...
Wednesday, 9 December 2015

Nothing like Alps and fondue to make it feel like Christmas

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Restaurant Review: Le Vieux Logis, St. Jorioz, France Given this year's unseasonably warm winter, a weekend jaunt to Annecy to celebra...
Sunday, 29 November 2015

The Lansdowne, L'Ortolan kick off the feasting season with flair

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Over two decades in England, Thanksgiving, Black Friday and the Fourth of July are holidays that ... with the exception of one office-based ...
Tuesday, 24 November 2015

Forget the Vikings; For more remarkable Danish bling, go further back

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I have seen a lot of magnificent cultural sights in previous trips to Copenhagen, but it was on this third visit that I finally got aroun...
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