“A great city is that which has the greatest men and women” – Walt Whitman So, I thought I’d show you a view of my home city! Copyright Debbie Smyth, […]
A colourful note: the colour indigo was named after the indigo dye derived from the Indigofera tinctoria plant. India is believed to be the oldest centre of indigo dyeing in […]
St Paul’s Cathedral (above) is viewed as being Sir Christopher Wren’s masterpiece. It was built on the site of a medieval church destroyed in the Great London Fire of 1666. It was […]
Richard Hooker (1554-1600) was an influential Anglican theologian who wrote the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (1593), in which he argued that it is through our participation in the life of Christ that […]
It’s a short walk this week, but the destination is special, I promise you. We are in Bratislava and we’ll start this stroll from the river, at the Slovenské Národné Múzeum. The […]
This tiny hermitage, the Capella d’en Marcús, also known as Mare de Deu de la Guia, is a small Romanesque chapel located in the Bòria neighbourhood of Barcelona, not too far from the […]
Between the airport and the centre of town lies Corstorphine. I had never really given the place a second thought, but with time on my hands one morning I decided to […]
