I can hardly convey the utter delight and excitement of finally arriving in this stupendous city with our group of students. The weather...

The group is starting to settle in to the beat. Our lovely room at the National Gallery was suddenly left so that we could have a day 'on...

The John Hall Venice Course of 2022 got off to a great start. Our group took their seats in our National Gallery lecture theatre for an...

With only a few days to go before the launch of the 2022 edition of the John Hall Venice Course, our 58th consecutive event, I went out...

Next year we will be holding our party at The Travellers Club as usual, having had to take a year out due to you-know-what. We are...

I still have to pinch myself. I wake up with a start, then look around to find that I'm in my own bed in my home. The journey to arrive...

It has been revealed that some of us decided not to waste an hour in Rome by going to bed! Here is a selection of our trip through the...

Many years ago, when I first joined the John Hall Course as putative director, at the end of the London Week the management, and a few...

It was not only the Sistine Chapel that we had private access to, but the entirety of the Vatican Collection, although wisely, after a...

We began our day at Trajan's Column, an extraordinary piece of Roman architecture erected by the Emperor Hadrian to commemorate his...

Sad and happy moments. Yesterday was Flavian's birthday, although it's today that we go to the Flavian Amphitheatre (aka The Colosseum)...

We finally arrived in Rome, it's incredible to think of our journey so far. The heat is piling on, but everywhere we go there's fresh,...

The heat didn't let up, but we found various solutions! Visiting places like the exceptional Santa Maria Novella church with that superb...

With the mercury soaring, we've been attempting to dodge the direct rays, but when it comes to admiring Alberti's stunning facade of...

After five amazing weeks it was time to say arrivederci to lovely Venice, where we had made ourselves a home for the past five weeks. On...

Back in 1965, when John Hall launched the course, Peggy Guggenheim was alive and had just moved into her strange half-finished 'palazzo'...

One of the fantastic aspects of the programme is the series of cookery classes, led by Contessa Enrica Rocca or her wonderful daughter...

Every year part of what the John Hall Venice course issues all students with is an object known as The Chorus Pass. This is a fantastic...

We got some photos of our cookery class with Charlotte, Enrica Rocca's fabulous daughter taking our group through what they had all...

As our glorious time in Venice draws to an end, we have ten days left, it's absolutely flashed by; friendships have been formed, masses...