You will probably know that Cyprus is a member of the European Union. But not all of it if you are of a Turkish persuasion. In that case, approximatel...

My last foreign blog was about Sicily. So is this one, but it’s one with a difference. It involves the late Sicilian author, Andrea Camilleri, a...

Sicily is separated from mainland Italy by a narrow stretch of water called the Straits of Messina. Plans are intermittently advanced about spanning t...

I was in Paris last week. France is in some turmoil at present. President Macron was so enraged by the poor performance of his own party, and the bett...

Late last September, I flew to Florence. My final destination was Rome but I’d left my plans rather late and by far the cheapest way to make my ...

The week before last I was in Rome for the first time in Lord knows how long. It is hardly a controversial view to describe it as one of the most allu...

At the beginning of this month, my wife and I went on a week-long holiday to Rhodes. You might say we picked the right time, because now would certain...

I recently enjoyed a four-day break in southern mainland Greece, in the Peloponnese, with one of my sons and his girlfriend. We played some golf, dran...

As we head inexorably towards winter, it is pleasant to reflect on sunnier times just gone – as recently as last month, in fact. So it was that ...