Monthly Archives: May 2007

Clermont: Quite Quiet

Posted on May 23, 2007 by robhunt510

Tim Moore sped through in his Rolls Royce, Tom Coryat found them mean and ignoble, but I like the places between Amiens and Paris. They do not have major tour attractions, though in the country nearby there is horseriding, country … Continue reading →

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Passing Through to Clermont

Posted on May 23, 2007 by robhunt510
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Around the World in One Attic

Posted on May 23, 2007 by robhunt510

Verne is everywhere, even Breteuil In the upstairs study of the Maison Jules Verne in Amiens, we find the author’s Google; his version of the Elizabethan “commonplace” book. Verne’s library is over 12,000 books strong, and there are maps, atlases, … Continue reading →

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Fi-fishing in Breteuil

Posted on May 22, 2007 by robhunt510

The Renaissance humanist writer, François Rabelais said that laughter is the mark of humanity. In that case I’m having an on, off, very-on crisis of humanity here in Breteuil. Rabelais was one of those betwixt figures, an ex-monk, lawyer and … Continue reading →

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Writers Coming Soon

Posted on May 21, 2007 by robhunt510

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.

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Sans CAD-CAM?

Posted on May 21, 2007 by robhunt510

Amiens On July 7th, that is 7/7/7 – one of those Dan Brown numbers – the results of the new Seven Wonders of the World competition will be announced. The short list includes The Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, the … Continue reading →

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Downtown

Posted on May 21, 2007 by robhunt510

I choose the Baroque café in Amiens, right by the Somme, because Tom Coryat was active in Europe in the “Baroque” era, the history book tells me. I must research this. Here all is riverside cafés, Cathedral views, and Pink … Continue reading →

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Missed it

Posted on May 21, 2007 by robhunt510

The two most terrifying words in the English language are “clown” and “Toby.” Toby is a “Clown contemporain”. He played last night in Amiens. I watched Rugby League.

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Hollywood:Amiens

Posted on May 20, 2007 by robhunt510

Suzanne At the good cake shop on a somewhat soulless, very wet, pedestrian drag and I’m talking Izzard and getting confusing instructions from the cake ladies for la Maison de Jules Verne, the Around the World in Eighty Days man … Continue reading →

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Real Walkers

Posted on May 20, 2007 by robhunt510

Amiens, up early for Church Les and Pamela have been visiting Australian war cemeteries in the Somme for a week. They’re from London. They like the café we’re sitting in because it isn’t fake, is logo-lite. “Not like those in … Continue reading →

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