Monthly Archives: September 2010

Mainz Kind a Town

Posted on September 28, 2010 by robhunt510

An easy walk out of Oppenheim, and a sense that up there on the hill, the old clerics did their job further afield. They could see so far. The Rhine is not elusive today, but still I walk an inlet, … Continue reading →

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More Sagas

Posted on September 26, 2010 by robhunt510

A early sunny start in Worms takes me to the river, a statue of Hagen throwing the treasure of the Niebelungen into the Rhine, and the vineyards that brought us Liebfraumilch. A Proustian moment – not. Too many 1970s allusions … Continue reading →

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My Diet in Worms

Posted on September 20, 2010 by robhunt510

Frankenthal’s cloudy centre is drinking beer at 9.30, but it is Sunday. The weekend cyclists soon appear as I walk towards the Rhine, through a subdued suburbia close to the autobahn. It is a morning of sports, first the teenage … Continue reading →

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A short little palimpsest of Speyer

Posted on September 19, 2010 by robhunt510

Ever since I saw and became obsessed with the work of the German conceptual artist, Anselm Kiefer, I’ve wanted to see – and walk – and, inevitably, photograph, haphazardly, some of the rhineland landscapes that appear to have influenced his … Continue reading →

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Rolling on a – wrong – river. To Speyer, Spira as was

Posted on September 18, 2010 by robhunt510

Another Heidelberg philosphe weg, my fourth, down to the new bridge, past the Irish bar that Angela said was good, but I don’t do Irish bars unless they are in Ireland. Then a joyous pilgrimage down the Neckar river, as … Continue reading →

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Philosphies of Life

Posted on September 18, 2010 by robhunt510

Lazlo runs a brand new vinyl store in the clubby street; the late night old town, about half a hiccough from my bridge-side Heidelberg hotel. In his stylish shop window there’s a copy of the soundtrack to Stanley Donen’s European … Continue reading →

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Heidelberg: philosophy compulsory

Posted on September 17, 2010 by robhunt510

My favourite moment of the Baden-Baden Grayson Perry incident happens without him, back at the Capuchin-Radisson reception desk. An elderly German couple were, they explain, sitting behind me in the Travel Pussy cafe. They want to know, pretty simply – … Continue reading →

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Grayson Perry and the travel pussy

Posted on September 17, 2010 by robhunt510

It’s one part Hugh Hefner to another part Bond this morning, the first time in my life I have spent from waking until late afternoon in a bathrobe. Frustuk in the Capuchin wing of the monastery (those old monks presumably … Continue reading →

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On the Road Road to Baden-Baden

Posted on September 15, 2010 by robhunt510

I get good karma kudos at breakfast, as word seems to have spread that I’m a crazy English walker, and not an investment banker with IPAD fashion accessory. Over fruity fruhstuk I ask Dieter about the area around Ziebelhof. He … Continue reading →

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Into Germany, leaving the Alsatians

Posted on September 14, 2010 by robhunt510

The walking out of Strasbourg dismantles the theories of “tiny” spatial differences somewhat, but only because I can’t knock on doors and check out the Biedermanns in their many forms in the massive mansion blocks. But, things change again long … Continue reading →

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