I’ve always been interested in history, and I remember begging for any and all books in the Eyewitness Book collection. I still have the ones I received and one was “Ancient Rome” and the other “Mummy”. Put both of them together and every since I held those books in my hand, I have wanted to […]
Spring
Postcard from Piscina Mirabilis
Just outside of Naples, this cistern ranks as one of the largest built by the ancient Romans. Not only is it hard to photograph the vastness of the cistern, it’s hard to imagine what it would have looked like when filled with water. Standing at the bottom and looking up, one feels incredibly small.
Postcard from Marseille
Marseille surprised me. All I ever heard was: don’t go there, it’s dangerous. But when I started to look into it, I read that the area around the old port had been cleaned up, there were interesting museums to visit and it wasn’t any more dangerous than other large cities. I was intrigued and looking […]