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Fourth day in Verona

It was another full-on day- some achievement as here too we had temperatures in the high 30s. We walked to Castelvecchio. Grandcarne, the greatest of the ruling Scala family, built this castle but it’s now a museum. This contained many art works by Mantegna, Veronese and Tintoretto but sadly no [...]

July 26, 2019 // 0 Comments

One more sporting overview

As regular readers of the Rust will be aware, our sports department remains ever-vigilant in its monitoring of matters of principle and integrity on behalf of fans everywhere. Here are some links to a couple of issues of the moment:   SPORTS-WATCHING So far as we’re aware Shakespeare never [...]

July 25, 2019 // 0 Comments

Tombs churches & opera

The many reasons I love Italy are reflected in this hotel: there is the connection and pride in Italy’s classical antiquity. On the bed the turn-down service had left a booklet on the tombs of the ruling Scala family which we visited first thing and very fine sepulchres these were too. Second, [...]

July 24, 2019 // 0 Comments

The Circus has come to town

In a variety of forms there exists a maxim called “The Duck Test” which, at one time or another, every man jack of us alive has applied to situations we’ve comes across. I know I have. You know the one: put at its simplest, it runs “If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks [...]

July 24, 2019 // 0 Comments

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 [...]

July 23, 2019 // 0 Comments

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 [...]

July 23, 2019 // 0 Comments

Who are we – and what are we doing here?

Beginning my daily review of the news websites this morning I was still reflecting upon last night’s Channel Four documentary Moon Landing Live broadcast at 8.00pm which I happened to watch in the company of a forty-nine year lady and my son Barry who is thirty-seven. It was a fascinating [...]

July 21, 2019 // 0 Comments

A day at Sissinghurst

I have a friend on the Rust who is addicted to the TV hospital programme Holby even though he has a phobia of hospitals. It’s much the same with me and gardens. I could not name you a single flower nor plant but like nothing better, especially in summer, than to roam in gardens. In their later [...]

July 18, 2019 // 0 Comments

Is it just me?

I suspect any oldie out there will empathise with my post today – nothing more than a brief recap of things that happened to me yesterday whilst out and about in the modern world. First up, I’m involved part-time in the conduct of a local organisation which meets occasionally and for which my [...]

July 18, 2019 // 0 Comments

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 [...]

July 16, 2019 // 0 Comments

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