Kevin McCloud’s Grand Tour of Europe – Kevin McCloud

Kevin McCloud’s Grand Tour of Europe is treading a well worn path. That of the young English grand tourist who, in the eighteenth century, spent up to five years traveling through France and Italy returning home via Switzerland, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands. Their journey highlighted the importance of local customs and traditions growing an attitude that eventually helped toward redrawing the map of Europe following the revolution in France.

Loosely following in the footsteps of the most notorious grand tourists, Kevin clambers in, on and amongst the greatest buildings, ruins and cities in Europe and also veers drastically off the official path to visit the brothels, bathhouses and drinking dens, which formed the other half of the grand tourists’ experiences.

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This accumulation of sights sounds and smells allows a sense of what it must have been like for a callow Briton to have come face to face with the heat and the noise, the drama and still living history of the civilisations of Europe. As always, Kevin is an entertaining and masterly companion as we delve behind the facades we all think we know so well.

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