World & Travelling – Page 5

April 10, 2018

Château d’Yvoire

From the lakeside approach to Yvoire, the château appears as if out of the water. The small peninsula it is built upon is perfect…

April 7, 2018

Prangins is a perfect example of resilience in the face of destruction, that most human of qualities which counteracts the also very human sense…

April 3, 2018

Rolle is probably the most memorable of the places I visited in my one/two days of exploration in rural Vaud and Geneva, lands mostly…

April 1, 2018

Coppet is a private site — though it acts as a museum in the summertime — and therefore one’s freedom of movement on the…

March 27, 2018

Annecy was interesting. There are not many places I have seen that this much effort has gone into constructing towers which are large over……

March 24, 2018

Nyon was my first Swiss (Vaudois? Savoyard?) castle that I experienced, and as such it was a perfect entry to the local scenery. A…

March 21, 2018

Framlingham is one of the most iconic places in the East Anglian medieval landscape; mostly this is because it is one of the very…

March 16, 2018

Mileham is not well known at all though it is one of the largest sites in Norfolk. A former Norman motte and bailey castle…

March 13, 2018

I really enjoyed visiting North Elmham. The site can be summed up as the vision of two very different people, Bishops Herbert de Losinga…

March 10, 2018

Elsing is a tough one to write and think about, mostly because this place is privately-owned and still lived in. I went to take…