Well I love the church architecture I've seen all over Spain and Italy. Quite often, the insides don't match, either in art or in good taste, the fabulous exteriors. There are far too many cheap statues of generic flavour that are, er, painted. Then you have those awful obscene violent crucifixion depictions, sacred bleeding hearts and amateurish statues of saints gazing slightly upwards into a heavenly middle distance as though they are half-way through not quite the best orgasm they've ever had. Lots of the churches in Florence and Venice have amazing works of art and I've seen some wonderful Tintorettos, Giotto frescos, Donatello bas-reliefs and the rest. But the whole lot means an awful lot to me. It's my heritage, just as much as it's the heritage of the most fervent believer, which is what I am most decidedly not. I love it all and I go into every big church in every city I visit as my obsessive numero uno priority (though if you ever go to Napoli don't miss the Archaeological Museum, and if you ever go to Florence don't miss the Uffizi gallery). If you ever get to Lecce in Puglia, go to the Santa Croce basilica. Outside and in, it's my very favourite. Well, there's Hereford Cathedral too...