An Evening Stroll in Paraty
Just a hop, skip and a jump away from Rio de Janeiro is the seaside town of Paraty. This little place is famous for its historic centre – a few streets of well-kept colonial buildings lining cobbled streets, upon which hallowed ground only the footfall of pedestrians and the click-clack of horses and carts is permitted.
Read MoreA Lost Palace and Llamas
No, I’m not in Peru yet, I found both the ruins of a palace and llamas right here in Wiltshire, England!
I have something of an obsession with medieval history. Particularly the 12th and 13th centuries, the time of troubadours, crusades and courtly love. I had found out that somewhere, not far from my house in rural Wiltshire, there were the remains of the once-great Clarendon Palace. Built by William the Conqueror, it became an important residence of English Kings. Now, it appears as only a footnote in history (a stub on wikipedia!) and it is largely forgotten; just a few bits of stone somewhere in the English countryside.
In the Footsteps of the Cathars: A Journey in Southern France
>Languedoc-Roussillon. History so deeply permeates this catalan region of southern France that even the name – Languedoc – is a reminder of the language once spoken in this region, a medieval forerunner of modern-day Catalan, the langue d’oc. Nowadays, the majority of people here speak French – which was once the langue d’oil spoken in Northern France.
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