Notebook #2: Hadrian's Wall, The Goth, The Lemon Twigs
People, places, ideas, culture
Roman in the gloamin’
On a family holiday to Rome when my sons were teenagers we went to the Colosseum. Opting for the official tour we wandered the ruins while our guide gave a potted history of the Roman empire.
Roman rule, we were told, stretched from the Atlantic to the Persian Gu…