Kate's Blog

The following are short reviews of the books that I read in September. The marks I have given them in the brackets are out of five. Over th...

There are churches galore which, according to the tourist guide, all contain ‘important works’. We pass their façades, either as we sweep by...

Time flies when you’re wandering about and we run out of it, so don’t get to go to Murano. I buy some of the glass jewellery on the main isl...

At breakfast-time on the television we see caribinieri storming crowds with riot shield and guns. We express concern but the man at the hot...