The vestiges of Vladimir are growing harder to detect: bad PAs, appalling plumbing, boring buildings you suspect must once …

One thing you learn from travel is to be more careful where you’re born. It helps to …

Switzerland’s a courtyard garden; Germany’s an old estate; Switzerland runs right on time; German trains are sometimes …

How is it that the French keyboard requires two key strokes per full stop? You’re waiting in …

It’s strange how often all through Europe names don’t quite mean what they should; towns say something …

The curvatures, the curvatures ... back home we drive 300 Ks, our small …

Blossoms are out on the trees, on the trees at the …

Hand in hand we climb the stairs; our bellies full of wine and cheese, each …

On the afternoon I am to meet God, I cannot raise my eyes. …

This is luxury I’ve never knownoutside certain books I’ve read. Beautiful girls take my clothes off And …

I coveted the pretty ornament. Like a child I wanted the sweet colours, the …

“And what will these boys do when we close our eyes for good …

Diu al ghe. S’al gh’e la figa al ghé. (There is a God. If there’s the …

Now that it’s evening and the cicadas have stopped, now that the fly has …

A crow, vivid black— on the mirror of its back the sky …

Two Ballinas I have in mind though they are separately pronounced — the …

Visiting her Kentish cousins, partner’s only, not my own, I feel the stories ramify, an unsought gift I …

Suddenly I’ve been persuaded to buy myself a “codger cap”— or that is how I think of …

Do the names of English towns deliver what they seem to mean? A century of economics is summarised …

Horse-floats here in Sweden prompt an overdue analysis. You trail behind them slowly, wondering how it could have …