Hip hip hooray! Robert Burns – Rabbie Burns – turns 258 today. How times fly. Scotland’s national bard, a poet of his time, and of ours. Here’s a poem for all time. To celebrate the bard and ourselves, to enjoy to the full and last drop With or without Haggis, neeps and tatties. Continue reading
Born in Friesland (the Netherlands), educated in Belgium, world-famous in England. The Fries Museum in Leeuwarden is the place to be to experience the voyage of discovery from Lourens Alma Tadema to Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. A tempting part of Leeuwarden-Fryslân European Capital of Culture 2018.
Self-portrait, 1852
Robert Louis Stevenson
‘Here he lies where he longed to be / Home is the sailor, home from the sea / And the hunter home from the hill’ form the last lines of an epitaph and mark the grave of an extraordinary man. Robert Louis Stevenson wrote his own elegy and determined his final resting-place, on top of Mount Vaea overlooking Vailima, his former home and estate on Samoa. There where he longed to be. He was only 44 years old. Continue reading
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