My grandmother was an exceptionally intelligent woman who was passionately interested in antiques. I’m pretty sure I got my love of antiques from her, and possibly even my passion for authenticity and material culture. She was also very cheap. Or rather, she liked a bargain. She had a whole theory on how to search for […]
Archives for November 2015
Pen and Sword II; Teaching Martial Arts in the Vale of Delphi
Intro to Bolognese in the Vale of Delphi By today, my Pen and Sword tour will have gone to Mycenae, Tiryns, Argos, Olympia, and be well on our way to Delphi. If we’re lucky, we’ll stop and look at the battlefield of Plataea; the battlefield, and the ruins of the walled city where Arimnestos grew […]
Pen and Sword II — The Peloponnese
Steven Runciman — a great, if sometimes romantic, historian, wrote a book I’ve read many times called ‘The Lost Capitol of Byzantium’ with a forward by John Freely. It’s about Mistras, a town that overlooks the vale of Sparta. Mistras is one of the most magical places I’ve ever been. The location is superb,and so […]
