Historian, Writer, Teacher, Researcher
From the 15th-23rd of July, I joined up with a group from my church in Edinburgh to visit and help out with sister churches in Munich, Rosenheim and Erlangen (only some of the group went there, and I was not Continue Reading …
Ravenna, about 82 km east of Bologna, was most important as the capital of the Western Roman Empire from 402-476, the Kingdom of the Ostrogoths (a christian civilisation that defeated the Western Romans) from 476-540, and the Italian flagship city Continue Reading …
Bologna is somewhere a bit off the tourist map, but it’s a profoundly enjoyable city, and very close to a bunch of different places – you can get to Florence or Venice in 1-2 hours, and Ravenna (the subject of Continue Reading …