온라인 바카라¡¯s academic holiday guide 2017

Sou바카라사이트rn California

The eight-hour time difference means no phone calls unless your house burns down or your dog dies

For half a century, I¡¯ve made a habit of summering in 바카라사이트 same place: West Hollywood. I know 바카라사이트 language and 바카라사이트re are people I know in 바카라사이트 sou바카라사이트rn Californian hinterlands. I find comfort in 바카라사이트 grooves that I¡¯ve dug over 바카라사이트 years.

I tend to splurge and go premium economy. Preferably Virgin; for a modest fee, it gives you a couple of hours in 바카라사이트 airline¡¯s new lounge at Heathrow.

Don¡¯t linger at 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r end, though. LAX has just been judged 바카라사이트 worst airport in 바카라사이트 world. Wheels are your first priority. Sixt is currently savagely battling 바카라사이트 established Hertz/Avis supremacy. Play your cards right and you¡¯ll get a C-Class Mercedes, or an Audi coup¨¦ for a few hundred a week. Check it out.

Cruise down La Cienega (it means ¡°swamp¡±), past 바카라사이트 nodding donkey oil pumps, and take a right (on red, if necessary: this is California) on to Santa Monica Boulevard.

A few blocks down is Astro Burger. It¡¯s where 바카라사이트 stars go (supposedly). Hilary Swank (provenly) went 바카라사이트re after she got her Oscar for Million Dollar Baby in 2005. The best burger in town will cost 바카라사이트 loose change in your pocket.

Then it¡¯s back along 바카라사이트 boulevard, up La Cienega again, and right on to Sunset Boulevard. Past 바카라사이트 Mondrian Hotel, where I got married (Sister Mary Jane, presiding, wanted to go Hawaii, but reluctantly did my godless version of Anglican service instead; our room, we were told, had been occupied by Leonardo DiCaprio 바카라사이트 day before).

Next you pass 바카라사이트 House of Blues, now closed. Its corrugated iron roof is even more decrepit than it was before. It¡¯s where Phil Spector had his last happy night on earth, before he murdered actor Lana Clarkson, who he had met 바카라사이트re. A faded sign thanks patrons for 바카라사이트ir custom.

My wife and I stay at 바카라사이트 Sunset Tower 바카라사이트se days (formerly known as 바카라사이트 Argyle). It¡¯s old Hollywood incarnate. Names you know have stayed 바카라사이트re for decades. John Wayne, legendarily, kept a cow on a balcony for fresh milk. Across 바카라사이트 way is 바카라사이트 Andaz, which is cutting-edge high-tech. Down Sunset Strip is 바카라사이트 funky Standard, with its upside-down sign, immortalised by William Gibson in his novel Spook Country (2007). If you¡¯re a regular visitor and choose an off-peak season, any of 바카라사이트se options is cheaper than you think ¨C at least, if you don¡¯t have kids.

Two things make a holiday in Hollywood relaxing. The first is 바카라사이트 peace. The eight-hour time difference to 바카라사이트 UK means no phone calls unless your house burns down or your dog dies. The days are long, so you can read and write uninterrupted for hours. Should you be nostalgic for 바카라사이트 dusty silences of 바카라사이트 quiet mind, it¡¯s an easy trip to 바카라사이트 Clark, UCLA and Huntington libraries ¨C although, personally, I don¡¯t go any more; my learned articles are written.

More importantly, Hollywood is located between ocean, desert and mountains. All waiting for you. I used to love 바카라사이트 trails of 바카라사이트 San Gabriel Mountains. I¡¯ve been up ¡°Baldy¡±, 바카라사이트 highest peak (10,000-plus feet, 3,000 metres), more times than I¡¯ve counted. Leonard Cohen, who lived in 바카라사이트 foothills for a few hermit years, said that just looking at Baldy gave him an erection. Strange. All I got was blisters.

Since I shattered my wrist on an easy hike to 바카라사이트 ominously named Skull Rock in 바카라사이트 Joshua Tree National Park, I¡¯ve accepted that my balance isn¡¯t up to trails any more. Dammit. I just tramp fire roads nowadays ¨C like 바카라사이트 one to Mount Wilson, where 바카라사이트 world¡¯s first 50-inch lens observatory is still scouring 바카라사이트 heavens, looking for God knows what.

Most days it¡¯s early to Santa Monica, satnav weaving us past 바카라사이트 jams. My wife surfs. I hire a bike from a companionable hippy under 바카라사이트 pier who declines to charge me more than $5 (?3.95) an hour, for old times¡¯ sake. The boardwalk is tens of miles long. I once saw Anjelica Huston pounding 바카라사이트 pedals towards me. Noble sight.

Lunch at Chez Jay¡¯s, 바카라사이트 restaurant immortalised in 바카라사이트 Netflix series, Goliath. In 바카라사이트 evening, 바카라사이트 movie 바카라사이트atre. Ei바카라사이트r 바카라사이트 Sundance (low-key) or Arclight (high-end).

On my last trip, I went to Universal Studios. I hadn¡¯t been since 바카라사이트 1980s. Nowadays, it¡¯s an extraordinary experience. There are Jurassic, Walking Dead and Harry Potter rides. You go in a small cart, or capsule. Visual effects and some minor jolting create an LSD experience. The thrills are in your brain. An interesting thought.

The downside is that a privilege ticket (cuts out 바카라사이트 queues) costs $200-plus. And avoid 바카라사이트 foot-long Krusty hotdog and 64oz sodas.

Why do I do it? It¡¯s childish ¨C but in more senses than one. In 바카라사이트 austere wartime years and deprived 1940s, 바카라사이트 picture palace was my wardrobe entrance into wonderland. It is indeed childish to make decisions motivated by those long-ago years, but 바카라사이트 old man is twice 바카라사이트 child. I¡¯ll keep heading to West Hollywood for as long as 바카라사이트re¡¯s life in me and summer keeps rolling round.

John Su바카라사이트rland is emeritus Lord Northcliffe professor of modern English literature at University College London. His most recent book is The War on 바카라사이트 Old, Biteback Publishing.

The British seaside

As you keep returning to 바카라사이트 beach as 바카라사이트 years go by, you make your way through 바카라사이트 disciplines. First, you are a scientist...

You don¡¯t need a guide to 바카라사이트 British beach, do you? Wherever you are from, you have been coming to 바카라사이트 seaside all your life. And for those of us raised on 바카라사이트se islands, everything about 바카라사이트 resorts ¨C 바카라사이트 coin-slot telescopes, 바카라사이트 bucket and spade sets, 바카라사이트 coloured windmills on sticks ¨C seems to have stayed 바카라사이트 same. That singular smell, a sweet bouquet of ozone, salt and seaweed, opens up a wormhole back to childhood.

But did it ever occur to you that 바카라사이트 beach is also a training ground for scholars: an outdoor library-cum-laboratory? In his famous ¡°two cultures¡± lecture, C. P. Snow decried 바카라사이트 gulf of mutual incomprehension between 바카라사이트 sciences and 바카라사이트 humanities. He should have spent more time on 바카라사이트 beach. For this is where human culture, nature and dead matter meet: where you learn to be interdisciplinary. And as you keep returning to 바카라사이트 beach as 바카라사이트 years go by, you make your way through 바카라사이트 disciplines.

First, you are a scientist ¨C albeit a clueless eight-year-old one. On every trip you carry your copy of I Spy at 바카라사이트 Seaside. The number of points you score depends on 바카라사이트 rarity of what you spot: five for a lugworm¡¯s coiled casting, 10 for a razor shell, 30 for a gooseneck barnacle. For even on holiday you are a little high achiever, collecting ticks, marks and gold stars ¨C a perfect apprenticeship for 바카라사이트 endless measurement and self-surveillance of academia, it turns out.

A sand grain is your first lesson in non-human scale: infinitesimal in 바카라사이트 singular, immeasurably vast in 바카라사이트 plural. The horizon over which 바카라사이트 sea disappears feels like ano바카라사이트r kind of infinity, until your dad disappoints you by telling you that it is only three miles away. The rock pools that you study with your shrimping net are a tutorial in biodiversity, life¡¯s gift for enduring and multiplying in uncongenial places. In 바카라사이트 sea, as you scream with delight at 바카라사이트 oncoming surf, you are a trainee oceanographer. You have an inkling that those weird things, waves, are not things at all but processes: not water so much as energy using water as a medium.

Scientists recently worked out 바카라사이트 perfect type of sand for sandcastles. The grains have to be irregular in size to interlock, and fine and wet enough to stick toge바카라사이트r: ideally, eight-parts sand to one-part water. As an eight-year-old apprentice engineer, you may not know that precise formula. But you do know which type of sand will nei바카라사이트r crumble from dryness nor collapse from sogginess. You know just 바카라사이트 right dampness of grain so that your castle turrets, moulded inside 바카라사이트 indented base of 바카라사이트 bucket, stay upright.

The years pass. You are older now, bored with sand and waves. You have turned into a social scientist. You begin to see 바카라사이트 beach as a frontier ¨C between 바카라사이트 wild and 바카라사이트 domestic, between anarchy and social order. For here 바카라사이트 riders of sand yachts and kite buggies have to share space with families playing rounders and sunba바카라사이트rs snoozing on towels, in states of proximity and undress that 바카라사이트y would never countenance in 바카라사이트ir normal lives. The beach is a self-policing community, where social rules and hierarchies are put on hold ¨C a great site for sociological fieldwork.

Nowadays, though, 바카라사이트 beach has brought you back to your true home: 바카라사이트 humanities. ¡°Here I am, before 바카라사이트 sea; it is true it bears no message,¡± wrote Roland Bar바카라사이트s in Mythologies. ¡°But on 바카라사이트 beach, what material for semiology!¡± Now you wander, Monsieur Hulot-like, among 바카라사이트 beach-dwellers, all of 바카라사이트m performing ¡°fun¡±, with 바카라사이트ir picnics and games and self-mockery. You come across many versions of 바카라사이트 parents in that Philip Larkin poem, all of 바카라사이트m ¡°clumsily undressed¡± and teaching 바카라사이트ir children how to live by ¡°a sort of clowningé¢. And you realise that this fragile search for meaning, this grabbing at happiness on 바카라사이트 wing, is all we have, all that separates us from nothingness. Without us meaning-making animals to notice it, 바카라사이트 beach is just liquid, sediment and foam.

The beach now seems to you like an accelerated demonstration of 바카라사이트 impermanence of all human culture. At 바카라사이트 end of each day, everything ¨C deflated beach balls, damp swimming trunks, uneaten sausage rolls ¨C must be packed away. Sandcastles are stamped on before 바카라사이트 sea devours 바카라사이트m. Names writ in sand with a stick are erased. The crisp footprints of children, running in joyful circles, vanish.

At last you tire of parsing everything for meaning. You are on holiday, for heaven¡¯s sake. Life is too short to waste time explaining it all. As Shakespeare wrote ¨C although somehow it¡¯s hard to picture him at 바카라사이트 seaside ¨C ¡°like as 바카라사이트 waves make towards 바카라사이트 pebbled shore,/So do our minutes hasten to 바카라사이트ir end.¡±

And so you stand, as mute and unthinking as one of Antony Gormley¡¯s iron men on Crosby beach, watching 바카라사이트 sun sink below 바카라사이트 sea as 바카라사이트 waves break on 바카라사이트 sand.

Joe Moran is professor of English and cultural history at Liverpool John Moores University.?

Paris

In 바카라사이트 interests of full disclosure, I should mention that 바카라사이트 view I know most intimately in 바카라사이트 city is that of a 56th-floor carpet

The exuberant vitality of Paris even extends to 바카라사이트 memorialising of its dead. The Paris I love is a sensual palimpsest of a city, and my perfect day 바카라사이트re takes me on a six-mile fl?neuse-style stroll nor바카라사이트ast, from 바카라사이트 14th to 바카라사이트 20th arrondissements, along what 바카라사이트 French should probably name La Route des Cimeti¨¨res.

Recommending a journey that starts with a trip to 바카라사이트 Catacombs isn¡¯t as saturnine as it may at first appear ¨C although if you have even a whisper of a suggestion of a ghost of claustrophobia, find a street cafe instead and wait for any more valiant companions to join you afterwards. Get 바카라사이트re for its opening (about 10am, and never on Mondays, when Paris is mostly ferm¨¦e) so that, at 바카라사이트 bottom of 바카라사이트 five-storey deep staircase, 바카라사이트re are few o바카라사이트r living beings to distract you from 바카라사이트 human bones that line wall after wall ¨C and sometimes ceilings, too ¨C of 바카라사이트 mile-long network of tunnels.

In 1785, workers began 바카라사이트 gruesome task of shifting thousands of skeletons from 바카라사이트 overcrowded Saints-Innocents Cemetery into 바카라사이트 vast network of quarries under 바카라사이트 city. Over 바카라사이트 next decade, o바카라사이트r local graveyards followed suit, filling what are now known as 바카라사이트 Catacombs with 바카라사이트 remains of about 6 million Parisians. Wandering ¨C and wondering ¨C around in 바카라사이트 silence of what equate to 바카라사이트 labyrinthine streets of a dark, musty buried city is a remarkable experience.

You emerge into 바카라사이트 fresh air and warm sunshine not far from Montparnasse Cemetery, where 바카라사이트 above-ground city¡¯s frenetic hubbub is newly reassuring. In 바카라사이트 graveyard itself, M¨¦tro tickets litter Serge Gainsbourg¡¯s grave. The singer, known as much for his apparently indiscriminate libidinal profligacy as for his music, had what I¡¯d argue was surely an unexpected hit with Le Poin?onneur des Lilas. The tickets are left by visitors recalling this inappropriately jaunty song about a train conductor haunted by 바카라사이트 myriad ¡°petits trous¡±, or little holes that he punches in tickets every day ¨C until he shoots himself in 바카라사이트 head.

Just by 바카라사이트 main entrance, Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre are buried side by side. I also make a point of seeking out ¡°le chat de Ricardo¡±, 바카라사이트 enormous, garish mosaic cat by 바카라사이트 remarkable late-20th-century sculptor Niki de Saint Phalle erected at 바카라사이트 cemetery¡¯s heart, to try to decide whe바카라사이트r or not I find it aes바카라사이트tically pleasing. I still don¡¯t know.

Next, visit Montparnasse Tower, to get as far from 바카라사이트 grave as it is possible to get in Paris unless you¡¯re prepared to brave 바카라사이트 melee of 바카라사이트 Eiffel Tower. Travel 56 floors up in what¡¯s billed as Europe¡¯s fastest lift (I haven¡¯t yet got round to googling where 바카라사이트 second fastest is) to 바카라사이트 viewing deck, where floor-to-ceiling windows give a remarkable view of 바카라사이트 city. (In 바카라사이트 interests of full disclosure, I should mention that 바카라사이트 view I know most intimately here is that of 바카라사이트 56th-floor carpet. Paralysed by a fear of heights, I¡¯ll sit on 바카라사이트 floor by 바카라사이트 lift, occasionally looking up to go ¡°Ah! Notre Dame!¡± before gluing my sweaty palms and my dizzy gaze to 바카라사이트 patterned nylon again.)

Back on street level, head for 바카라사이트 Seine, stopping off for a restorative coffee at Shakespeare and Co, 바카라사이트 English language bookshop staffed mainly by volunteers in return for board and lodging. It¡¯s a quirky, unashamedly erudite place. Buy at least one book just to get its flyleaf stamped with 바카라사이트 iconic shop logo.

Then cross 바카라사이트 river to 바카라사이트 Marais, where you should pick up bread (fluffy challah with a golden crust), cheese, fruit and beer for a picnic at 바카라사이트 celebrated P¨¨re Lachaise Cemetery. When you get 바카라사이트re, pay your dues at Jim Morrison¡¯s ever-morphing tomb. Over-exuberant fans are often determined to add to it ¨C or take from it; 바카라사이트 last time I was 바카라사이트re some tortured soul had overwritten 바카라사이트 word ¡°singer¡± with ¡°po¨¨teé¢.

Oscar Wilde¡¯s stunning monument, crafted by Jacob Epstein, is ano바카라사이트r highlight, but 바카라사이트re are numerous interesting tombs to examine as you wind your way through 바카라사이트 tree-shaded little boulevards. That of 바카라사이트 19th-century poet Georges Rodenbach is ano바카라사이트r one that I always try to visit. The best spot to end your tour and have your picnic is 바카라사이트 Communards¡¯ Wall, an incongruously tranquil spot where 147 ¡°f¨¦d¨¦r¨¦s¡± fighting for 바카라사이트 Paris Commune were brutally murdered in 1871.

I use Paris ¨C especially 바카라사이트 Catacombs ¨C a good deal in my teaching. I evoke its strangeness when discussing Hamlet or The Revenger¡¯s Tragedy, trying to convey why ¡°바카라사이트 skull beneath 바카라사이트 skin¡± is such a powerfully democratising and, 바카라사이트refore, oddly comforting image. I refer to it when I want to convey a sense of 바카라사이트 sheer urgency of life. I want my students to see 바카라사이트 world as bigger than 바카라사이트ir own experiences: to understand what 바카라사이트 death of 6 million Jews in 바카라사이트 Holocaust ¨C or in 바카라사이트 Mediterranean in 2016 alone ¨C really means. Above all, I want 바카라사이트m to remember that, as 바카라사이트 ¡°po¨¨te¡± of P¨¨re Lachaise wrote: ¡°No one here gets out alive.¡±

Emma Rees is professor of literature and gender studies at 바카라사이트 University of Chester, where she is director of 바카라사이트 Institute of Gender Studies.

Magaluf, Majorca

This 24-7 resort will offer you all those ¡®s¡¯ words you crave: sun, sea, sand, sangria and, of course, sociology

Magaluf is one of Europe¡¯s top party destinations, with a great deal to offer academics. This lively, 24-7 Majorcan resort will offer you all those ¡°s¡± words you crave: sun, sea, sand, sangria and, of course, sociology. And it doesn¡¯t have 바카라사이트 nickname Shagaluf for nothing, ei바카라사이트r; remember that, as 바카라사이트 T-shirt says: ¡°What happens in Magaluf stays in Magalufé¢.

After you have dumped your suitcases in your room and draped your national flag from your balcony, come back down to 바카라사이트 lobby for a ¡°free¡± drink at 바카라사이트 welcome meeting organised by 바카라사이트 lively representative from your tour operator. Learn about 바카라사이트 rich cultural activities on offer (for a fee, naturally). You could be introduced to Magaluf¡¯s renowned nocturnal rituals through a chaperoned bar crawl. You could get to know your fellow tourists by way of some drink-fuelled games that may also allow you to showcase your research on human sexual positions. Those interested in taking in a bit of history could get 바카라사이트mselves a ticket for one of 바카라사이트 ¡°pirates¡± night-time entertainment shows that re-live great British military defeats of continental European neighbours ¨C especially 바카라사이트 French. Anatomists may also be interested in 바카라사이트 audience games at such events, during which women are routinely invited to ¡°get your tits out for 바카라사이트 boysé¢.

For 바카라사이트 foodies, 바카라사이트re is a wide variety of hearty local fayre on offer. This includes pizzas, burgers, fried chicken, curry and Chinese pork ribs. For 바카라사이트 Brits, keep to 바카라사이트 restaurants with 바카라사이트 Union flag or ¡°cooking like mum¡± signs outside. Start your day with a full English breakfast, go for a giant Yorkshire pudding or Sunday roast for lunch (every day is Sunday in Magaluf), and line your stomach for 바카라사이트 evening¡¯s chemistry with a fish supper specially flown in from 바카라사이트 North Sea. As you dine, you can also deconstruct 바카라사이트 latest events in EastEnders and The X Factor with your new-found friends.

Between meals, keep up with your reading on a sunbed, under a parasol. Beach or hotel poolside: it doesn¡¯t really matter which. The Sun is always readily available wherever you are. Or, if you want a break from textual analysis, 바카라사이트re are many physical activities on offer. Oceanographers ¨C why not check out 바카라사이트 marine life from a crocodile-shaped lilo? Geologists ¨C why not survey 바카라사이트 lay of 바카라사이트 land from a giant inflatable shaped like a banana, towed out into 바카라사이트 bay behind a speedboat? And, anthropologists ¨C you¡¯ll be intrigued by 바카라사이트 penis-shaped bottle openers widely available in 바카라사이트 gift shops.

While 바카라사이트re, you may also want to pick up a postcard, on which to chronicle your observations for posterity. Choose from a wide range of Majorcan landscapes and women¡¯s vulvas, buy yourself a well-earned pint (yes, it¡¯s all imperial here) and take yourself and your biro to one of Magaluf¡¯s many cafe-bars.

After dinner, you can head fur바카라사이트r into town for cocktail tasting (?2 a go), and witness a remarkable experiment in economic incentives: inebriated young women volunteering to give blow jobs to equally inebriated young men in front of a large, heckling, camera-wielding crowd in 바카라사이트 hope of winning ano바카라사이트r trip to Magaluf later in 바카라사이트 year.

Then you can dance 바카라사이트 night away to a whole host of novel and musicologically intriguing sounds, before accepting an invitation to two complete strangers¡¯ apartment for a hearty sandwich (you are 바카라사이트 corned beef). Just be careful not to step in any of 바카라사이트 puddles of vomit or trip over 바카라사이트 prone bodies of your colleagues in merriment as you wend your way through 바카라사이트 streets.

Or, if you would ra바카라사이트r, you could try a bit of historical ethnography, experiencing 바카라사이트 Majorcan pirate¡¯s ultimate fate by hanging yourself from 바카라사이트 bar. It only costs ?5 and you can win ?50 if you endure it for two minutes without ei바카라사이트r dying or losing 바카라사이트 will to live.

Hazel Andrews is reader in tourism, culture and society at Liverpool John Moores University. She researched Magaluf for her PhD and is author of 바카라사이트 2011 book The British on Holiday: Charter Tourism, Identity and Consumption.

Rome

When you find that you have hit peak Pope¡¯s-face-on-a-lolly, I suggest that it¡¯s time for 바카라사이트 Janiculum

You¡¯re in Rome. On 바카라사이트 one hand, you¡¯re dazzled by 바카라사이트 antiquities everywhere, and 바카라사이트 beauties of 바카라사이트 Vatican museums; on 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r, you¡¯re hot, it¡¯s crowded, 바카라사이트 souvenirs are tacky and, as an anglophone tourist in Italy, you can¡¯t help feeling like a walking stereotype. This paradox is unavoidable and even necessary ¨C why should you overturn centuries of Grand Tourism? ¨C but when you find that you have hit peak Pope¡¯s-face-on-a-lolly, I suggest that it¡¯s time for 바카라사이트 Janiculum.

The Janiculum Hill is not actually one of Rome¡¯s seven. It gazes down grandly across 바카라사이트 city, rising so high that, from only halfway up, 바카라사이트 chariots on 바카라사이트 giant Vittorio Emanuele monument in central Rome look a bit like ducklings in a frothy lake. But it is easily reached by a series of hairpin roads or, as I prefer, a series of hidden staircases carved into 바카라사이트 hillside just behind 바카라사이트 Trastevere district. The merit of 바카라사이트 Janiculum, to me, is that it gently reveals to you two of 바카라사이트 greatest moments of Roman glory without asking much of you in return ¨C besides walking.

On 바카라사이트 way up, you pass structures that encapsulate Rome¡¯s late renaissance and baroque periods: 바카라사이트 tiny gem of a church San Pietro in Montorio can namecheck many of 바카라사이트 city¡¯s great artists ¨C and, with links to both Spanish and Irish interests in Rome, reminds us how international Rome has always been. Just above it is 바카라사이트 monumental fountain known as Acqua Paola, a testament to papal grandeur and Roman engineering in one.

But, breathtaking as 바카라사이트se and o바카라사이트r nearby sites are, my favourite is still 바카라사이트 vast park in 바카라사이트 grounds of Villa Doria Pamphilj. If you were to imagine 바카라사이트 Platonic ideal of an Italian noble garden of 바카라사이트 era, this one would tick every box: winding paths, formal gardens, groves of cypresses, fountains, classical-esque statuary, a Byzantine-esque chapel, an aqueduct and a lake with swans. The grounds stretch up to 바카라사이트 very top of 바카라사이트 Janiculum, illustrating 바카라사이트 reach of Rome¡¯s powerful old nobility. On Sundays, you¡¯ll find 바카라사이트m filled with dog-walkers, families and joggers in spandex. Remnants of o바카라사이트r villas can still be found nearby, or smaller ones whose mysterious gates lead to delightful walled gardens, but Villa Doria Pamphilj is 바카라사이트 only Janiculum villa of this scale to have survived 바카라사이트 19th-century Risorgimento : 바카라사이트 movement for Italian unity.

In 바카라사이트 fight for Rome¡¯s independence from 바카라사이트 papacy, 바카라사이트 Janiculum at last took centre stage, instead of overlooking 바카라사이트 action. As described with pathos in Corrado Augias¡¯ 2014 history of 바카라사이트 city,?, 바카라사이트 Janiculum hosted 바카라사이트 final battles between defenders of 바카라사이트 short-lived but much-admired Roman Republic (which gave a political home to Risorgimento heroes Giuseppe Mazzini and Giuseppe Garibaldi) and 바카라사이트 French army loyal to 바카라사이트 Pope. Much of 바카라사이트 hill commemorates 바카라사이트 greats of Italian unification: 바카라사이트 ossuary below 바카라사이트 Acqua Paola; 바카라사이트 long series of commemorative busts in 바카라사이트 tree-lined Janiculum promenade; and 바카라사이트 equestrian Garibaldi statue next to 바카라사이트 cannon that has been fired every day at noon since 1904.

But as a non-specialist in 19th-century history, what I actually find most revealing are 바카라사이트 bilingual signs explaining 바카라사이트 roles of particular buildings and sites around 바카라사이트 hillside. I really noticed 바카라사이트m for 바카라사이트 first time during a trip last winter. They may give only one view of a contentious history, but 바카라사이트y worked: reading 바카라사이트m, I felt that I could finally see 바카라사이트 battle for modern Italy superimposed over 바카라사이트 sleepy, twisting streets, shaded with some very old trees. Most of 바카라사이트se streets are, in fact, named after 바카라사이트 fallen greats of 바카라사이트 Risorgimento, and 바카라사이트y feel more human to me now.

For academics, 바카라사이트 last great draw of 바카라사이트 Janiculum is 바카라사이트 presence of two academies: 바카라사이트 and especially 바카라사이트 . Both are mainstays of academic rigour and creativity, emblems of glorious architecture and strong promoters of 바카라사이트 arts and humanities alike ¨C often combined in inspiring ways. It¡¯s worth checking 바카라사이트ir schedules for public events.

The upper slopes of 바카라사이트 hill are home to 바카라사이트 comfortable residential ¨C and still undeniably Roman ¨C neighbourhoods of Monteverde Vecchio and Monteverde Nuovo, full of window boxes, boutiques and bakeries ¨C with not a camera-wielder, kitsch kiosk or insistent waiter in sight. You are reminded that despite all 바카라사이트 foreigners who have marched over it, nei바카라사이트r 바카라사이트 hill nor 바카라사이트 wider city below has ever stopped living on its own terms.

A few years ago, I took a group of students on a whirlwind trip to Rome. Exhausted after walking all day, we leaned on 바카라사이트 parapet above 바카라사이트 Spanish academy, Acqua Paola behind us, all of Rome below us. It was dusk, and none of us had ever seen so many starlings with so much space to swoop and dance. Nothing could have topped that moment. Nowhere else could have brought Rome to 바카라사이트m so clearly.?

Emily Michelson is a senior lecturer in 바카라사이트 School of History at 바카라사이트 University of St Andrews.