The second leg of our journey in Scotland lasted nine days. If our base remained in Glasgow, we divided this stay into two different themes: first, the exploration of the cultural and architectural treasures of Scotland’s biggest city (4 days), and second, several excursions in the Isles of Arran, Bute, Mull and Iona (5 days). When I planned our stay in Glasgow, I expected to … Continue reading May in Scotland: Part 2 – Glasgow
From the aristocratic Grand Tour in the 17th and 18th centuries to today’s mass tourism, Florence has attracted millions of students and amateurs of Renaissance art. Last January, a century after Miss Lucy Honeychurch’s trip* and armed not with a Baedeker’s but with a Lonely Planet travel guide, I wandered from the Piazza della Signoria to the Ponte Vecchio and strolled alongside the Arno. And … Continue reading A long weekend in Florence
In 2011, my children and I made our second trip to the United States. My daughter was a first-year student in Nancy’s School of Architecture and wanted to see or visit several buildings in NY City that she had heard of in her classes, quite recent and/or famous for their architecture. My son, still a teenager, and I agreed to follow her steps in NY … Continue reading New-York and more: the architect’s eye
The eternal student - anglophile version 