This week I’m revisiting a place that’s quite close to where I live, yet where you can see almost two millennia of history. The Tower of London, in one form or another, has been dreaming by the Thames since Roman times. However, it has a dark history, of which the Beauchamp Tower is just oneContinue reading “Wednesday Wander Revisited – Graffiti in the Beauchamp Tower, London”
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Wednesday Wander – Graffiti in the Beauchamp Tower
Wednesday Wander is back! I had a little bit of a break due to work and health turmoil, but it’s a new year, all is well, and it’s time to wander again. This week I’m taking a closer look at a part of the Tower Of London. I’ve written about the Tower before, and lookedContinue reading “Wednesday Wander – Graffiti in the Beauchamp Tower”
Wednesday Wander – Bridge of Sighs, Venice
My wander this week is to Venice, Italy. I’ve written a little bit about Venice before, but this time I wanted to focus specifically on the famous Bridge of Sighs, so called because it was the bridge over which prisoners were taken before being executed or exiled from Venice. It is said their sorrow wasContinue reading “Wednesday Wander – Bridge of Sighs, Venice”
#BlogBattle – Hair: Behind The Mask
This week, Rachael Ritchey’s blog battle theme is Hair, and this is my entry. It seems to be Historical Fiction: Behind The Mask She had cried when they cut her hair. At least, that was what he had heard. But stories told from behind prison walls grow in legend or ridicule, depending upon who isContinue reading “#BlogBattle – Hair: Behind The Mask”
Helen Glynn Jones 