Articles by Nancy Bright-Thompson
Summing up
The trip was a great success despite the heat. Verona is certainly worth a visit for its history, museums, sights, opera and restaurants. We might have a new Rust debate on tour v solo. The tour was well organised and the combination of a tour manager and lecturer worked well. You can opt out and [...]
Churches hotel and fine dining
We arrived at out hotel Due Torri (two towers) at 12-30. It was too early to check in so most of the party went to its fifth floor to enjoy the panoramic view and eat. The party is still finding its feet. One elderly lady at our table confessed she had difficulty in finding her words and with [...]
Verona
The relationship between the National Rust and airport security is not a happy one. One of of my colleagues left his Ipad there and yesterday’s Bob Tickler’s was taken in error by a fellow traveller from the carousel after security checking and then departed on his flight to Dubrovnik. A [...]
A day at Oxford
A good friend of mine who, despite attending Cambridge University, is deeply knowledgeable on Oxford had arranged a day there for me as a belated birthday present. We took the coach known as the Oxford Tube from Victoria. I do not often use coach travel but it was comfortable with a table for 4, a [...]
Chanel’s Riviera / Anne de Courcy
This is not a biography of arguably the greatest businesswoman of all time but an account of the Riviera she inhabited in her only permanent home La Pausa at Roquebrune, Cap Martin overlooking Monte Carlo. As someone who has travelled to the Riviera frequently and read much of its literature I [...]
Wakehurst Gardens
Somerset Maugham observed that, as we have so few summer days in Britain, it is only fair that ours should be finer than anywhere else in the world. Thus on one of the few hot days – or rather one without rain – I was delighted yesterday to have organised a trip to Wakehurst Gardens in [...]
Amsterdam arrived and analysed
We actually made up the time after being given an earlier than anticipated slot. Schipol airport is a confusing, crowded place as you have to get past the flows of passengers making their way to departure gates. After clearing border control and customs there was no driver as arranged at the [...]
Amsterdam Bound
When Alice Mansfield informed us she was off to Amsterdam to see the Rembrandt Exhibition at the Rijskmuseum she soon found ready takers with Daffers, Bob Tickler and myself. I was left to deal with the travel arrangements and sitting on board a BA flight and being informed there is an hour and [...]