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About robhunt510

Writer, artist

Some thoughts on returning to Tom Coryat’s Walk

Posted on August 18, 2010 by robhunt510

Three and half years ago when I started this recreation, this walk across Europe, I had a laptop, a portable hard drive, and a lot of material typed in the British Library. Plus my Merrells. Now I have an IPad. … Continue reading →

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The Letter Goes Out, the rains start pouring in London

Posted on August 18, 2010 by robhunt510

Hello everyone, Tomorrow, August 19, I’ll be restarting a walk across Europe (with somefuel-powered assistance) that I began in May 2007. 402 years after theevent I’m again following in the footsteps and barge paths, inscriptionsand “inns” of Thomas Coryat, Jacobean … Continue reading →

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Prep

Posted on July 31, 2010 by robhunt510

Been walking around Manhattan with my IPAD, getting into the truly mobile world of digital travel. A thing of wonder. Even bumped into a family from Switzerland – at a Starbucks on Columbus – which seems like an omen of … Continue reading →

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The Kind of Picture I Can’t Take

Posted on July 23, 2010 by robhunt510

But will really try this time. From Magnum Photos picture of the week. That’s Alec Guinness learning his lines. I’d say Richmond, upon Thames.

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Countdown

Posted on July 23, 2010 by robhunt510

Whitstable, where it all began, and one of Peter’s faves. So tomorrow the countdown begins: first to New York to hang with Portia, meet old friends, buy that IPAD, and some NYC Sales’ clothes. Three years on from the first … Continue reading →

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It begins again soon…

Posted on June 24, 2010 by robhunt510

…but this time with an IPAD.

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In preparation: part two of the Journey

Posted on June 24, 2009 by robhunt510

I will shortly be starting to post my version of the journey from Venice to Bad Ragatz as an exercise in “recollection in tranquility”. Patrick Leigh Fermor, whose Europe walk haunts my own, did much the same only he was … Continue reading →

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Now this is what I think of when I remember that Come Fly with Me is 50 years old

Posted on February 16, 2009 by robhunt510

Flickr has some great vintage French tourist shots.Thanks to Olen Steinhauer. And here’s some Calais now, thanks also to Flickr.

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Amiens raises an eyebrow

Posted on January 14, 2009 by robhunt510

One more film poster soon for the Jules Verne museum? …director McG, who let slip that he wants Will Smith to star in his just-announced 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Captain Nemo at Disney. “The character Nemo in this film … Continue reading →

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An Exhibition of the old new media

Posted on January 5, 2009 by robhunt510

The resemblance between early Renaissance journalism and the current state of the Internet is uncanny. But there’s a chastening lesson here for the Web as well. The Web is exuberant, democratic, unruly and thrilling. But Web-based journalists haven’t really pioneered … Continue reading →

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