By bike along the Western Front of World War 1
The story of my 1500 kilometre bike ride along the Western Front of World War 1, an amazing 3-week journey through landscape and history
Exploring Great War History by Bike: The Lost Legacy for Peace of Jean Jaurès
On the wall of a modest café in Montmartre, a plaque marks what could lay claim to being among the most consequential events of the early 20th Century. It states, simply: ‘Here, on 31st July 1914, Jean Jaurès was assassinated’. By firing his shots through the window...
Of Silk and Saints: a week on the shores of Lake Como
“My grandmother kept silkworms beside her bed during the feeding weeks”, recalled Eleanora, the receptionist at Como’s remarkable Silk Museum. “In those days”, she went on, “almost everyone produced silk at home”. The loss of mulberry trees through road and...
