Orvieto, Oxford, Paris, and Lake Como

I'm re-reading The Defector by Daniel Silva. I like Gabriel Allon novels - he visits lots of neat places I've never been. In this book, he begins in Umbria, near Orvieto, restoring a painting for the Vatican while staying at an estate that was once a monastery ....


- Orvieto

Next he's off to Oxford, England, where he meets a friend and Russian defector on the Magdalen Bridge ....


- the bridge with Magdalen Tower in the background

They then go to Paris, the Jewish quarter, where they eat at a restaurant they wish was as good as the famous but disappeared Jo Goldenberg's ....


- Jo Goldenberg's

I've just reached the part of the book where Gabriel assembles his team in a villa on Lake Como :) .....