Category Archives: Grayson Perry

Ich habe keine Ducati

Posted on August 2, 2011 by robhunt510

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 →

Posted in Coryat, Coryat’s Crudities, Germany, Gitta Sereny, Grayson Perry, Heine, koblenz | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Arendt, Goethe, Grayson Perry, Heidelberg, Holderlin, Martin Luther, Thomas Coryat | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Alan Yentob, Baden-Baden, BBC, Dostoievski, Grayson Perry, Philippa Perry, The Gamblers, Thomas Coryat | Leave a comment