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Following Bernardo Luini to Lugano

The Stolpersteine of Niguarda

Bernardino Luini and " Milan's Sistine Chapel"

Back on the Peace Trail in Stresa

On the track of Bernardino Luini in Lombardy

David Roberts goes on the trail of Bernardino Luini in Lombardy

“ The Drowned and the Saved” – a short walk down Plattenstrasse in Zurich

A short walk don Plattenstrasse in Zurich discovers some interesting history.

A British railway pioneer in Monza

David Roberts revives an old article and goes in search of -Italy's second railway line and British engineer William Scott in Milan and Monza

David Roberts reviews Julian Cohen's " Surely not in Buxton !"

David Roberts reviews Julian Cohen's new book " surely not in Buxton!"

A Furlogh in Rome ( part one)

David Roberts follows the path of a wartime tour made by Buxton College pupil Heinz Thannhauser in June 1944.

The Murders on Lake Maggiore- Part 2 Baveno

David Roberts visits Baveno on Lake Maggiore and considers British railway barons, Queen Victoria, Field Marshal Sir Jan Smuts and a wartime tragedy at Baveno on Lake Maggiore.

A walking tour of the stolpersteine around from piazza Cadorna to Sant'Ambrogio

Escape, Refuge and Utopia in Ascona, Switzerland by David Roberts

A short literary tour around Ascona and Brissago on the trail of Hemingway, H G Wells, Daphne Du Maurier and some counter culture.