Sunshine, cold, walkabouts, gondola rides As we acclimatise this year's group to Venice we go on a couple of walks through the city just...

We thought that we would get the Group Photo done whilst the sun shone (you never know!)...and everyone comes to the first lecture too....

Having got our luggage safely delivered, we've all moved in and settled into the swing of things. Very cold, but increasingly gorgeous...

notwithstanding a SNAFU from BA/Heathrow that ended up with 15 bits of luggage going AWOL, we headed across the lagoon in beautiful...

I have to apologise as this collection of images is essentially a compilation of what we've done and seen over the past week. Fantastic...

Starting in gorgeous winter sunshine at our superb lecture centre in the Nash Rooms at The ICA, we eased gently into the start of...

Since the inception of the course we have always endeavoured to get brilliant, charismatic, knowledgeable academics, critics, writers,...

We finish, as always, with a fabulous lunch at the Grand Tourists' lunch place of choice. In the shade of the 1st century BC temple of...

Once again the excellent Harriet Artautovic captured the utter delight and exceptional privilege that we share ...a superb experience...

Well, we had to have ONE grizzly day of weather, and of course it came on the day when we were going to be outside pretty well all of the...

We began with Frank Dabell in Borromini's spectacular church of Sant'Ivo all Sapienza, an extraordinary work of spiritual geometry....

We arrived in brilliant sunshine after our journey from Florence, to a very different environment. Rome is a capital city, buzzing with...

The sun was shining as we visited some glorious sites; a PRIVATE visit to Michelangelo's extraordinary Laurentian Library, designed for...

At the end of our day we headed out of town to visit the lovely gardens of Villa Gamberaia. A Renaissance villa, created with the words...

Whilst I may be completely unaware of the glorious nightlife available to students in Florence, it's always so rewarding to see a good...

The John Hall Venice Course Venice & London section is over. Some of us are now in sunny Firenze whilst others are home, or at least en...

Since the inception of The John Hall Course in 1965, we have always had a friendly relationship with the great Peggy Guggenheim...

and who was missing?

A few of us had to bail out due to illness, but the course was superbly represented, and the party went on late...good fun and thanks to...

We set off (reasonably) early to get out to visit some amazing sites out of Venice, our final 'day out'. Our first visit was the...