Postcard of the Week: the Sorolla Art Museum in Madrid
One thing Madrid does have in abundance is art. It has three world-class art museums, the Prado, the Reina Sofia and the Thyssen-Bornemisza, containing some of the world’s best-known […]
Postcard of the Week: Claude Monet at the Musée d’Orsay
On our first day in Paris during our recent trip, we headed to the Musée d’Orsay which lives in an enormous former railway station. We opted for a guided […]
The Souvenir Dilemma
The other day I found myself browsing through a tourist shop in London. I was amazed at the sheer quantity of gawdy figurines and tacky t-shirts that are hoovered […]
