Category: Ita’s World

After James Joyce and Nora Barnacle left Ireland in October 1904, traces of the Joyce family have been chronicled about the many places where they visited or lived. They first went to Trieste where their children Giorgio and Lucia were born in 1905 and 1907 respectively. In Trieste James Joyce got a job teaching English. Over time the family moved between Trieste, Rome, Trieste, Dublin, Zurich, Trieste, Paris, London, Paris, Zurich and other places in between. As a struggling…

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Since Antiquity sea water has been renowned for its curative qualities. Like elsewhere the sea resorts of La Baule and Pornichet soon developed a reputation offered by the heated natural sea waters of the thalassotherapy and re-education centres. Their effect for treating rheumatics and post-accident trauma has become well established with use of baths, jets and pools of filtered sea water, with no chemical processes, heated to 34 degrees. In the Loire-Atlantique region of France a short distance west…

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