Ian Robertson, Hispanophile and author of engaging and scholarly Blue Guides to European countries – obituary
Ian Robertson, Hispanophile and author of engaging and scholarly Blue Guides to European countries – obituary There was hardly a church or cloister in Spain which Robertson did not write about, helped by his wife Marie Thérèse, his manager and driver Robertson: a special interest in the British travel writers who ventured to Spain, notably Richard Ford Ian Robertson, the travel writer, who has died in Arles aged 92, regarded swathes of continental Europe as his “Empire”; well he might, as thousands of appreciative connoisseurs travelled across Spain, Portugal, France, Cyprus, Ireland,...