Via Appia Antica | Rome
The peculiar nature of Rome is that it hides its history in plain sight. This is not an intentional thing, but rather an accident of that history. Rome – the city, as well as the city state that became Italy … Continued
Staring Down A Mountain | Mt Vesuvius, Naples | HereIsWhere Episode 20
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A Place of Violent and Savage History | Pompeii & Herculaneum, Italy | HereIsWhere Episode 19
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Staring Down A Mountain | Mt Vesuvius, Naples
You don’t ever seem to really leave Naples, the names just change. These names that were once distinct and separate towns and settlements have now melded into one, as if they are the mud and magma rivulets that flow down … Continued
A Place of Savage and Violent History | Pompeii & Herculaneum
A shaft of light shines on the floor, the beam borne stronger as it passes through the heated mist of steam rising from the baths, seemingly from the very pores of the room. The voices of the bathers form a … Continued
Between Scylla and Charybdis
I want to know again the school boy, who stared at the map and wished – but never truly believed – that he could come here, who thought the toe of the Italian boot must be a strange place to … Continued