by John Haren | May 8, 2023 | Uncategorized
We love to catch the local transport and walk the villages and cities. We love trains, having travelled Europe and South East Asia experiencing the various coach classes with contrasting degrees of comfort or discomfort. In the 1980s a hard copy of the...
by John Haren | May 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
7:30 Thursday morning, Rome slept well. Twelve Franciscan Nuns chant prayers of praise in the Basilica of St Cecilia. The priest strolls into the Church unharried by the lateness of his entry. The nuns’ refrain maintains the solemnity of the moment while the priest...
by John Haren | May 1, 2023 | Uncategorized
I love Rome. The ambience. The culture. The churches. The people. The food. Rome is one large stage upon which every aspect of life is played out. Its residents are passionate. Theatrical at times. The cuisine is predictably simple. It appeals to the peasant in me....
