An afternoon lecture at Stow Minster, part of the systematic work to rebuild its Friends and its promotion of and care for visitors. A strong sense of the Viking Great Army ceasing to raid but instead over wintering at an encampment in nearby Torksey ('turk's island' being between the Trent and marsh) in the 870s.
A day trip to Newark, the premiere church of Nottinghamshire, after significant work during its fourteen months closure. Here is the work by local schools responding to the visit of Alfie Bradley's Knife Angel. There would be so much more to tell of the building, and of a wonderful encounter with the Poet in Residence at the neighbouring Civil War Museum.
Four nights in Ravenna, an expensive and well looked after lecturer-led tour group fulfilling a long held ambition to see the Byzantine mosaics. Pages and pages of Blog posts about it should have filled last month without doing full justice to it, but here instead is Gabriel glimpsed over Mary's shoulder in the ducal palace at Urbino.
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