Moonlight postcards have a magic appeal for everyone. In the Golden Age of the postcard they were a mark of any right-thinking town, to show off their modern way of life and their up-to-date streets.
I slept in a London hotel on a Saturday in May 2010. Sunday morning I went downstairs for breakfast a few hours before my flight to Philadelphia and while waiting for a full-English fry-up, I chose a newspaper from the rack by the door and found the following banner headline: After 467 years, Copernicus gets […]