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Saturday, 4 July 2020
Travel back with me to a different world. Before cheap flights and packaged tours. When cars were few and money …
Continue reading "From Our House to Guest House"
By John Freeman
Saturday, 13 June 2020
There is no substitute for live music and we are missing it. For the past three months performance venues have …
By John Freeman
Saturday, 30 May 2020
Sigmund Freud shares with Charles Darwin the distinction of having left a legacy which has insinuated itself into the cultural …
By John Freeman
Friday, 8 May 2020
On an upper wall of the staircase in our family house is a framed black and white photograph of a …
Continue reading "Escaping the shadows – Cartier-Bresson in lockdown"
By John Freeman
Saturday, 25 April 2020
All of us in recent weeks have seen holiday travel plans disrupted or stalled. Not of the greatest importance in …
Continue reading "Travel: Where will we go when it’s all over?"
By John Freeman
Saturday, 18 April 2020
The Lives of Houses by Hermione Lee and Kate Kennedy (Princeton University Press) Most of us enjoy peeking into other …
By John Freeman
Friday, 10 April 2020
This is a tale of three cities, or rather of one city at three stages in its history. The city …
Continue reading "Dresden’s long 20th century – a tale of three cities"
By John Freeman
Thursday, 9 April 2020
While working in Argentina I was once asked by some locals over lunch what I had most noticed about Argentines …
Continue reading "Social distancing: will we ever hug and kiss again?"
By John Freeman
