Spending one day in Dijon works. The city is small, walkable and an easy train ride from Paris. Plenty of guides fit in eleven sights, three museums and a wine tour. I have read them. Then I spent four days in the city and saw how long everything takes. This is what I would plan […]
DESTINATIONS, ENGLAND, EUROPE
Trent Park House of Secrets: What It’s Really Like to Visit London’s New Spy Museum
The best historic houses have a story to tell; Trent Park House of Secrets has two cracking ones. This country house in Enfield, North London, hosted royalty and film stars during the 1930s, and spent the war years secretly recording German generals through microphones dotted around its rooms. I went to see how its museum […]
Dijon is often treated as a stopover. A place to change trains on the way to somewhere else in France, or a name people know for mustard and not much else. I spent four days there and left with a list of things to do longer than I expected for a city its size. This […]
Turin’s palaces tell the story of the House of Savoy and the city they made their capital. The House of Savoy ruled from Turin for the best part of three centuries, first as dukes, then as kings of Sardinia and finally as the royal family of a newly unified Italy. To let everyone know who […]