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It is a brave writer who takes on Venice, La Serenissima, given the long list of distinguished predecessors in whose footsteps he or she must tread, not least those of John Julius Norwich and Jan Morris, let alone the Victorian sage John Ruskin and his 'The Stones of Venice'. Jonathan Keates, the author of La Serenissima, is well aware of the challenge involved. Indeed, he starts his brief introduction with the comment made by Goethe some fifty years before Ruskin was writing that &#03...

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Flying Fifteen mini series at Parkstone © Lisa Randle After the horrendous weather, with 48 knot winds that lashed our bungalow at Hengistbury Head all day on Friday, we were quite relieved to see that the wind had eased on Saturday morning as we got ready to drive across Bournemouth for the first Mini Series of the season. But should we venture out into the bay or use the top triangle in the Harbour? The Bay looked grey, cold and above all calm with little wind close into shore ar...