South and west of Gloucester, the distinctive burr that is typical of West Country speech is immediately audible in BRISTOL . Alongside it, however, you will also hear the more strident tones of fast money and big business which in recent...
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By Puglian standards, MANFREDONIA is a new town, a mere 600 years old, founded - as the name suggests - by Manfred, illegitimate son of Frederick II. The Austrians struck the first blow of World War I on Italian soil here by bombing the town's...
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Many Southern cities aspire to blend the old with the new; few achieve it as dramatically as HUNTSVILLE , a hundred miles south of Nashville just inside the Alabama border. Its sleepy center still recalls the days when it was dominated by...
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