We left our tearful fellow-students in Venice and, wiping away a few of our own tears, and even slightly stoic, we headed down to...

On the 60th edition of the course a group of alums from the 1965 course gathered (as they do) in Venice to celebrate how much their...

Our final trip away from Venice was to visit two of the most glorious villas designed by Andrea Palladio, Villa Emo and Villa Barbaro....

Marika, who used to work in respected kitchens in New York and Venice, hosted our groups for a series of entertaining and educational...

With half term beckoning, and a few of the group already on the slopes in Klosters, Cortina etc the remainder headed out for an...

A fairly early start, with a few people deciding to stay in bed and enjoy a lie-in (yes, we know who you are!)...we began our visit in...

This, our second week in Venice, the group visited The Accademia Gallery, The Frari, San Zaccaria and Salute churches and Palazzo...

Some of us started pretty early, but after a pretty packed first week it took a bit of effort and dedication to get to a visit to...

Settled in to life in Venice, we had glorious sunny cold weather and enjoyed the excellent presentations from Rebecca Darley on...

On a bright, sunny cold morning everyone visited the Doge's Palace - the seat of power, justice and government in Venice for over a...

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...