When travellers arrived by ocean liner in Colombo they didn’t have very far to go to find a pleasant place to stay. Opposite the city’s main port, the Grand Oriental Hotel was advertised in the 19th century as “the best equipped hotel in the East” with the “best […]
As far as London guide books go, Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies has to be one of the more usual. While most focus on popular tourist attractions such as St Paul’s Cathedral, London Zoo and the Science Museum, this one takes a different subject altogether. It was […]
Head to Boston’s Hanover Street at the weekend and you’ll encounter long queues outside many of the cafes, restaurants and bakeries. This the heart of the city’s Little Italy, a vibrant quarter – bigger than New York’s version – that is popular with Bostonians and visitors alike. But […]
Throw the tea into the sea! At Griffin’s Wharf in Boston Harbour emotions were running high as angry rebels marched on to the Beaver and launched tea crates into the water. With each valuable chest thrown over the side of the whaler there was a cheer from the […]
“His situation is very pleasant, being a Peninsula, hemmed in on the South-side with the Bay of Roxberry, on the north side with Charles-River, the Marshes on the back side being not a quarter of a mile over; so that a little fencing will secure their cattle from […]
“Who is this Donald Trump? I’ve not heard of him.” There can’t be many in the US today that haven’t heard of their President, but in Plymouth Colony the residents seem to be confused. Exploring this dusty Massachusetts village, with a row of single-room thatched family homes built […]
When Athens’s shiny new Acropolis Museum opened a decade ago visitors could see the sculptured decorations of the Parthenon on display in their entirely for the first time since the 19th century. The frieze – which depicts some 360 human and divine figures and more than 250 animals […]
