Category Archives: Rhine

On not getting started, again

Posted on September 15, 2011 by robhunt510

Dordrecht, September 15. Above me on the wall in green faux handwriting a long quote from Francis Bacon’s “Of Gardens”. It begins GOD Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures… This has been … Continue reading →

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Bopping to AOR

Posted on October 21, 2010 by robhunt510

So, a short walk along and next to the Rhine on the second attempt to make Boppard with all the speeding car, toy train, barge and cruise-liner semiotics. That’s ok, sometimes the vineyard wanderings make me a little too sublime-centric. … Continue reading →

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Diccon Blues

Posted on September 8, 2010 by robhunt510

I’ve done my share of American/English bookshops around the world, from Buenos Aires to Cairo to Budapest. Yeah, I know. It is fair to say that they tend to have a particular vibe to them, particularly at book launches. And … Continue reading →

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G-LOST, the fifty kilometre day

Posted on September 3, 2010 by robhunt510

The old town of Brugg, like so many of the smaller places on the trip at this time of the year, wakes with deep sharp shadows, and a sense that the entire population is still at the beach, somewhere else. … Continue reading →

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