Letter from St Petersburg, by the Magdalen Boy, Tom Clark

Filed Under Lifestyle, Travel | Leave a Comment

St. Petersburg is, in a fashion, somewhat like Cambridge. Peter the Great visited Europe, was impressed by a rational Enlightenment model for civilisation and borrowed the best bits in order to found his own distilled version of Europe, like a God, forging his own envisaged order out of the shapeless marsh and leading Russia out of its supposedly dark and backward state. (more…)

Jan

1

SOUTH: In Antarctica with Sue and Hamish

Filed Under Lifestyle, Travel | 1 Comment

Our ‘expedition’ ship was the Lyubov Orlova, Russian owned and crewed, chartered and organised by the American firm Quark and with a European hotel staff. She carries just over 100 passengers. Icebreaker ‘adventure’ ships with about 80 passengers will put you ashore for (more…)