From Calais to Venice and Back, via Flushing and the Alps and the Rhine and lots in between
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Monthly Archives: June 2007
And now for something a little different
This is what they are frightened of: from Modane, betwixt La Chambre and the Cenis Valley “Everyday it happens, habitually at four. The rain, the lightning.” It has been true for almost my journey, since Paris definitely. Everyday in the … Continue reading
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Race
“…I never saw so many roguish Egyptians together in one place in all my life as in Nevers, where there was a multitude of men, women and children of them, that disguise their faces, a our counterfet western Egyptians in … Continue reading
Posted in Chambéry, La Chambre, Lyon
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Chambery before J-J R
“Chambéry which is called in Latin Camberinum, is the capitall City of Savoy, wherein they keep their Parliament. It is seated in a plaine, and is but little, yet walled, and having certaine convenient gates. Many of their houses are … Continue reading
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Chambéry couples
more to come…the stationery shop has to close for lunch. Thus Much of Blogging
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Sun: simple
All above in La Tour du Pin, staging post for Chambéry, and a gentle introduction, for a while, to the sun. It is as simple as the sun coming out in a town that is big enough, but not too … Continue reading
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Late, Lost Lyon
The reason for the delay in writing about Lyon more fully is mostly about processing: Tom had three years; Tim Moore perhaps one. Here, with the imperative to post several times each day, a different kind of writing emerges, more … Continue reading
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Heartbeats
If the pulse of a small town is its railway station then Moulins fails and La Tour du Pin wins: it has a healthy heart. On Saturday mornings it is full of young and old, arriving from Grenoble and Lyon, … Continue reading
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Ways of Seeing
Reading Tim Moore at La Tour du Pin All three of us, Tom, Tim Moore and I come into Lyon after days in the quiet of the Loire. I feel all three expect something here, after the rain and the … Continue reading
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Betwixt Lifestyle
Tom made his big lifestyle choice at 32; these days decisions – forced or not – about lifestyle, travel and place, can happen at any time. Travel after finishing high school, parents changing country to find work, bringing their small … Continue reading
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