Category Archives: Coryat

Bonn

Kulturkampf Gott und die Staat features in the neat bookshop window frieze Suggesting that Bonn has not lost all of its politics With the reunifying right hand shift back to Berlin. Because old-school Marxist analysis never said seize The day … Continue reading

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Ich habe keine Ducati

So, two intensive weeks at the Goethe Institute and I am linguistically charged ein bischen. I can now count to a thousand and name all the countries in the EU. Still have some problems translating Heine. Anyway, the final leg … Continue reading

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Coming Shortly

One year short of the 400th anniversary of the “first” tourist’s journey across Europe, Robin Hunt follows in the footsteps of one of Shakespeare’s drinking mates, Thomas Coryat, armed with the latest communication technologies (and an online computer database filled … Continue reading

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