What I absolutely love this song by Celine Dion, is its almost Latin way of constructing a phrase. It was not uncommon in the language of the ancient Romans to drop various parts of the phrase in diff...
This post is to merely point out to a striking, if ironic and kind of poignant, coincidence in location. By this point today I have accidentally met my old University friend, and we were walking toget...
Moscow is a fantastic place: there are many things that they haven’t got in Britain, and then there are things that they do have. Just like you may never leave Manchester because you have Piccad...
This was one of those decisive moments: when I walked into the territory of the Sretensky Stavropegial Monastery today, the first thing I saw was the priest walking with a holy book in hands. The scen...
A rather European church yard Bell Tower (1788) I had a long walk today in the centre of Moscow, and this time I will be sharing some of the impressions straight away. The first is a visit to the chur...
Credit: CRAF Yesterday in St Petersburg there opened an exhibition of Italian landscape photography organised by the Italian Cultural Institute (RU) and the CRAF Centre of Research and Archivation of ...
Advances in any field are built upon people with the small or personal point of view. Paul Arden, Whatever You Think Think the Opposite....
There is a story I love telling about me visiting St Petersburg in late August of 2002. I and Daniel had just returned after a month in Manchester back to Russia (it was the first year of our marriage...
I came home to find out that Elizabeth Taylor had left us. The first time I saw her was in The Taming of the Shrew when I was a teenager. The film was co-produced by Richard Burton and Franco Zeffirel...
As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world. Virginia Woolf, a British author....