Across the plaza – Fascist Rome
During last week’s Roman excursion I was able to make a brief visit to a part of the city I’ve wanted to see for some time, the EUR district located a few underground stops south of the centre.
Architecture
Exploring ‘Austerity Nostalgia’
Seven years or so since it first appeared it seems ‘that bloody sign’ is still with us. Some time around 2009, soon after the banking crisis, a stark poster featuring the words ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ set in a Gill Sans-ish typeface, topped by the Royal crest, began to appear here and there.
Roman poets
Every so often you visit a place with high expectations, and those expectations are exceeded. So it was for me when I visited the Protestant Cemetery in Rome a couple of days ago.
Mount Herzl and Yad Vashem
I was able to visit Mount Herzl in Jerusalem a couple of days ago. The Mount’s best known feature is the Holocaust History Museum, usually referred to as Yad Vashem, but that is just a part of an extensive complex of museums, memorials and parks.
On the Mount of Beatitudes
I finally took a trip to the Mount of Beatitudes on the north shore of the Sea of Galilee a couple of days ago, on a quite beautiful February afternoon.
In ‘the country of the Gerasenes’
A visit to Kursi, according to Christian tradition the site of the ‘Miracle of the Swine’, in which Jesus exorcises demons from a man who lived amongst the caves.
