Portus: Gateway to Rome (4)

At Portus a number of new projects were undertaken during Trajans port redevelopment. Most notable is the building of the…

Naturelog: 1st June

The weekly butterfly and dragonfly survey on my local patch. The weather is not ideal as there is a good…

The continued expansion of trade across the Empire meant that within only a few decades of the completion of the…

Back to the weekly butterfly and dragonfly survey of the patch. Its a beautiful day and so am hopeful for…

Our final morning in Dorset before heading back to London is spent at the RSPB Radipole reserve in the heart…

Day 3 of our trip to Dorset and we headed off to the Purbeck area of Dorset where we were…

Day 2 of our Dorset trip sees us at Ferrybridge on the Chesil Lagoon, a body of tidal water connected…

Keith and I are in Dorset for a few days birdwatching. Arriving from London by train early afternoon we drop…

In the reign of Claudius, a new port was constructed 3 km to the north of the Tiber estuary and…

When people talk about the Port of the city of Rome, they are usually thinking of the River port of…