Childe Harolds Pilgrimage

Childe Richard's Pilgrimage: Memoirs of a Not-So-Grand Tour

Richard O'Brien | Posted 26.09.2012 | Home
Richard O'Brien

Not for the first time, I have been tempted to compare myself negatively to Lord Byron. Like a large proportion of the young men of his time and class, the Romantic lothario spent the years 1809 to 1811 on a Grand Tour of Europe, absorbing the cultural, artistic and military history of tourist hotspots from Spain to Albania.