Not sure there’s anywhere that meets all your wants: weather is going to be the hardest as pretty much all the NE from DC upwards has hot humid summers and cold, sometimes severe, winters. South of D… (View Post)

Jansenism was always controversial in France, I recall... (View Post)

I think Pratchett and Gaiman got it right in Good Omens that most English people are quite certain that the church they don’t go to on Sunday is specifically the Church of England and none other. (View Post)

Sadly when we visited Athens we didn't have time to make the trip out to Marathon, which I'd loved to have done. To see and pay homage at the soros burial mound, which contains the ashes of the 192 A… (View Post)

Prince Andrew should be asking to be appointed the first resident Governor of Pitcairn. As a "viceroy" he'd have sovereign immunity from investigation etc, communications to Pitcairn are pr… (View Post)