The Bitter Bouquet of the Brush-Off

New views of Venice

The Dolomites from Lido

A distinguished and doubtless well-intentioned newspaper is publishing a series called “Around the World At Home”. Perhaps by this stage in the proceedings we might all be adult enough to admit that armchair travel in no way whatsoever compares to the real thing, but you can’t blame them for trying. After reading the Parisian effo…