If you go on a road trip through the Appalachian mountains you will see lots of old abandoned houses. I often wonder who lived there and why they left. Please click to view a video of selected photos taken over
Woe betide the feet that trespass on the hallowed lawns of Oxbridge colleges! But you already know if you have seen Jeremy Irons as a Trinity Fellow nonchalantly striding across the Great Court in The Man Who Knew Infinity (2016).
Whatever the etymology of Passchendaele, the little Flemish village sounds to me like Valley of Passion in English. In 1917, it was a valley of mud and cordite, steel and fire. The dirt was burned and scoured of life, except
