Category Archives: Lyon

The reason for the delay in writing about Lyon more fully is mostly about processing: Tom had three years; Tim Moore perhaps one. Here, with the imperative to post several times each day, a different kind of writing emerges, more … Continue reading →

Reading Tim Moore at La Tour du Pin All three of us, Tom, Tim Moore and I come into Lyon after days in the quiet of the Loire. I feel all three expect something here, after the rain and the … Continue reading →

Tom made his big lifestyle choice at 32; these days decisions – forced or not – about lifestyle, travel and place, can happen at any time. Travel after finishing high school, parents changing country to find work, bringing their small … Continue reading →

Singular game! Where the goal changes places;The winning-post is nowhere, yet all around;Where Man tires not of the mad hope he racesThinking, some day, that respite will be found The Voyage, Charles Baudelaire “Baudelaire was a secret agent – an … Continue reading →

Some of Tom’s Lyon “I went on Friday morning being the third day of June about sixe of the clocke from Tarare in my bootes, by reason of a certaine accident, to a place about six miles therehence, where I … Continue reading →

In the seventh district of Lyon, close to Mon Plasir, is the Lumière Museum. Here we celebrate a technology that really changed the way we see the world. The Museum is a marvellous building, a castle-villa, filled with cameras and … Continue reading →