To Venice and back by train, via Paris, Florence, Lecco & Chur, my notes and links. It was a delightful surprise to find I was traveling over the Bernina Pass. …
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Comparative Advantage
Looking for Dennis Healy’s admiration for how Austria came to terms with its loss of Empire and found ‘Like Romans Becoming Italians’: Italy as the Negative Paradigm for British Decline in the Language of the Press and Denis Healey by Ettore Costa, published it seems in 2018. An interesting read, here are my notes. i.e….
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Rome
The Eternal City, I visited in 2008, and made some notes and links; they are all broken now, but I have left the link to my map, which is a bit crap. Map View Larger Map
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Florence/Firenze
I went to Florence with the family in 2007 and had a great time. I made this page at that time and went back in 2024 and plan a third trip in 2025. I made some amendments in 2025.
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