Best song of the Year 2007, and even Tom would have approved
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
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- 'Splungen
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- Biography
- birth of journalism
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- BLOF
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- Bookselling
- Boppard
- Boulogne
- Breteuil
- Briare
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- Byron
- Cabbala
- Cafe Fino
- Calais
- Card Cheats
- Casino
- Chambéry
- Channel crossing
- Chanson
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- Chatwin
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- Coach travel
- Cologne
- Cologne cathedral
- commonplace books
- Coryat
- Coryat’s Crudities
- Crazy travellers
- Cremona
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- Dan Brown
- Dave Nicholas
- Düsseldorf
- Death in Venice
- Digital books
- Dostoievski
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- Earthquake
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- Europe
- Euston Road
- Ferris Buhler
- First Tourist
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- Flushing
- Fontainebleu
- Forks
- Foursquare
- France
- Frankenthal
- Frankfurt
- Friesenstrasse
- Future of Travel
- Garden of England
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- Germany
- Gitta Sereny
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- Gonzalez Foester
- Google maps
- Grayson Perry
- Greco
- guidebook
- Gun clubs
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- Heidelberg
- Heine
- Henry Garnett
- Hildegard of Bingen
- Holderlin
- holland
- Iain Sinclair
- Ian Fleming
- IPAD
- IPod
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- 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
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- Swiss Watching
- Tatort
- technologies that changed the world
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- theroux
- They Seek Him Here
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- Thomas Coryate
- Thusis
- To Be or Not to Be
- tom coryat
- Tony Judt
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- W.H. Auden
- Walenstadt
- Way Down Upon the Swanee River
- Weather
- wikipedia
- Will Smith
- Worms
- wotton
- Zurich
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