It was Godard, or Truffaut, both, who said: you can never
go wrong with an umbrella
I will be writing about Verne & Hugo, Montreuil & Amiens soon: social novels and the fantasticke take time.
From Calais to Venice and Back, via Flushing and the Alps and the Rhine and lots in between
These pages reflect a few of the places I've been since 2007, when I first read Thomas Coryate's Crudities of 1611. One day they'll be in order.Archives
- May 2020
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Categories
- 'Splungen
- Abbeville
- Adele
- Alan Yentob
- Albert Speer
- Alien
- Amiens
- Anselm Kiefer
- Arendt
- Around Robin
- Auden Dover White cliffs 9/11 Archer
- Bad Ragaz
- Baden
- Baden-Baden
- bail out
- Basel
- BBC
- Ben Jonson
- Ben Macintyre
- Bergamo
- Beuys
- Bingen
- Biography
- birth of journalism
- Birthday
- Blind Gloucester
- BLOF
- Bloomsbury
- Bonn
- Bookselling
- Boppard
- Boulogne
- Breteuil
- Briare
- British Library
- Byron
- Cabbala
- Cafe Fino
- Calais
- Card Cheats
- Casino
- Chambéry
- Channel crossing
- Chanson
- Chasing Pavements
- Chatwin
- China
- Chur
- Clermont
- Clock
- Coach travel
- Cologne
- Cologne cathedral
- commonplace books
- Coryat
- Coryat’s Crudities
- Crazy travellers
- Cremona
- Da Vinci
- Dan Brown
- Dave Nicholas
- Düsseldorf
- Death in Venice
- Digital books
- Dostoievski
- Dover
- Drachenfels
- Duisburg
- Durer
- Earthquake
- Ebooks
- Europe
- Euston Road
- Ferris Buhler
- First Tourist
- Flickr
- Flushing
- Fontainebleu
- Forks
- Foursquare
- France
- Frankenthal
- Frankfurt
- Friesenstrasse
- Future of Travel
- Garden of England
- Germaina
- Germania
- Germany
- Gitta Sereny
- Goethe
- Golden Unicorn
- Goldman Sachs
- Gonzalez Foester
- Google maps
- Grayson Perry
- Greco
- guidebook
- Gun clubs
- Gutenberg
- Heidelberg
- Heine
- Henry Garnett
- Hildegard of Bingen
- Holderlin
- holland
- Iain Sinclair
- Ian Fleming
- IPAD
- IPod
- Jacobean
- James 1st
- James I
- Jesuits
- Jewish mysticism
- John Le Carre
- Johnny Depp
- Josiah the Great
- Jules Verne
- Kearsney
- Kind of Blue
- King Lear
- Kloster Fahr
- koblenz
- Konigswinter
- Kueppersmuehle art museum
- La Chambre
- Lansleburg
- Leica
- Leslie Howard
- Library
- Limmat
- Linn
- Lodi
- London
- London Orbital
- Lorelei
- Loreley
- Lyon
- Mainz
- Malls
- manhattan
- Mantua
- maps
- Martin Luther
- Masculinity
- Max Frisch
- Milan
- Miles Davis
- mobile phones
- Montargis
- Montreuil-sur-mer
- Moonraker
- Moulins
- Mouse Tower
- Move It
- MSV Duisberg
- Music
- Napoleon
- Needle Park
- Neil Rhodes
- Nevers
- Neville Chamberlain
- New travel
- New York
- newspapers
- Niebelungen
- Noel Coward
- Norman Foster
- Oppenheim
- Oviva
- Padua
- Paris
- Patrick Leigh Fermor
- Petersburg Hotel
- Philippa Perry
- Photography
- Pimpernell Smith
- Pizzighettone
- Pleasure
- point of view
- Polke
- Postwar
- pre-trip
- Printing
- Propaganda
- Property
- Pussy Galore
- Quentin Stafford-Fraser
- Radio 4
- Rheinstein castle
- Rhine
- Rhine Cruise
- Rhinefelden
- Richter
- Riesling
- River
- Rivoli
- Robin Hunt
- Romanesque
- Romans
- Russell Gardens
- Salon des Amateurs
- San Pellegrino
- Sarkozy
- Schwetzinger
- September 11
- Shakespeare
- Sigfried
- Sir Hugo Drax
- Sizzles
- Slate
- Speyer
- St Margaret's Bay
- St. Denis
- St. Leu
- St.Goar
- Stipel bar
- Strasbourg
- Swiss Watching
- Tatort
- technologies that changed the world
- Technorati
- Temple Ewell
- The Gamblers
- The Gunpowder Plot
- The Rhine
- theroux
- They Seek Him Here
- Thomas Coryat
- Thomas Coryate
- Thusis
- To Be or Not to Be
- tom coryat
- Tony Judt
- Tour du Pin
- Tourism
- Travel
- Travel Writing
- Trieste and the meaning of nowhere
- Turin
- Uncategorized
- Underground
- Val Cenis
- Venice
- Vera Frankl
- Vercelli
- Verona
- Vlissigen. Coryat
- Vlissingen
- W.H. Auden
- Walenstadt
- Way Down Upon the Swanee River
- Weather
- wikipedia
- Will Smith
- Worms
- wotton
- Zurich
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