The size, climate and balling geological complexity of the British Isles have influenced national taste, too. The latter has given us a fabulous range of building materials so marvellously described ...
Ottoman Empire by Train (Channel 4) sounds terribly romantic, doesn’t it? I was so taken by the title that I began googling Orient-Express journeys to Istanbul, but it turns out that five days ...
King George I of Greece and Crown Prince Constantine enter Thessaloniki, 1912. Credit: Wikipedia/Public domain. It was October 26, 1912 when freedom bells rang in Thessaloniki, as the Greek army ...