Journeys

November 2013: Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Ramallah

March 2014: Milan, Padua, Venice and Ravenna

August 2014: Oropesa

November 2014: Madrid

January 2015: Warsaw

March 2015: Venice

April 2015: Antwerp

July 2015: Oropesa

September 2015: Bologna and Ravenna

October 2015: Istanbul

February 2016:  Cologne, Aachen and Den Bosch

March 2016: Florence and Sienna

May 2016:  Regensburg and Venice

July 2016: Oropesa

August 2016:  Madrid

October 2016: Romania

January 2017: Helsinki

February 2017:  Wales

May 2017: Madrid

June 2017: Seville and Mazagon

July 2017: Munich

September 2017: Pas-de-Calais and World War One battlefields

Reading and watching

  • Foot by Foot to Santiago de Compostela/Judy Foot
  • The Testament of Mary with Fiona Shaw at the Barbican
  • The Testament of Mary/Colm Toibin
  • Schwanengesang/Schubert - Tony Spence
  • Journals/Robert Falcon Scott
  • Fugitive Pieces/Ann Michaels
  • Unless/Carol Shields
  • Faust/Royal Opera House
  • The Art of Travel/Alain de Botton
  • Mad Men Series 6
  • A Week at The Airport/Alain de Botton
  • The Railway Man/Eric Lomax
  • Bright Lights, Big City/Jay McInerney
  • Stones of Venice/John Ruskin
  • The Sea, the Sea/Iris Murdoch
  • Childe Harold/Lord Byron
  • All The Pretty Horses/Cormac McCarthy
  • Extreme Rambling/Mark Thomas
  • Story of my Life/Jay McInerney
  • Venice Observed/Mary McCarthy