From Calais to Venice and Back, via Flushing and the Alps and the Rhine and lots in between
These pages reflect a few of the places I've been since 2007, when I first read Thomas Coryate's Crudities of 1611. One day they'll be in order.Archives
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- June 2015
- December 2013
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- December 2007
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Categories
- 'Splungen
- Abbeville
- Adele
- Alan Yentob
- Albert Speer
- Alien
- Amiens
- Anselm Kiefer
- Arendt
- Around Robin
- Auden Dover White cliffs 9/11 Archer
- Bad Ragaz
- Baden
- Baden-Baden
- bail out
- Basel
- BBC
- Ben Jonson
- Ben Macintyre
- Bergamo
- Beuys
- Bingen
- Biography
- birth of journalism
- Birthday
- Blind Gloucester
- BLOF
- Bloomsbury
- Bonn
- Bookselling
- Boppard
- Boulogne
- Breteuil
- Briare
- British Library
- Byron
- Cabbala
- Cafe Fino
- Calais
- Card Cheats
- Casino
- Chambéry
- Channel crossing
- Chanson
- Chasing Pavements
- Chatwin
- China
- Chur
- Clermont
- Clock
- Coach travel
- Cologne
- Cologne cathedral
- commonplace books
- Coryat
- Coryat’s Crudities
- Crazy travellers
- Cremona
- Da Vinci
- Dan Brown
- Dave Nicholas
- Düsseldorf
- Death in Venice
- Digital books
- Dostoievski
- Dover
- Drachenfels
- Duisburg
- Durer
- Earthquake
- Ebooks
- Europe
- Euston Road
- Ferris Buhler
- First Tourist
- Flickr
- Flushing
- Fontainebleu
- Forks
- Foursquare
- France
- Frankenthal
- Frankfurt
- Friesenstrasse
- Future of Travel
- Garden of England
- Germaina
- Germania
- Germany
- Gitta Sereny
- Goethe
- Golden Unicorn
- Goldman Sachs
- Gonzalez Foester
- Google maps
- Grayson Perry
- Greco
- guidebook
- Gun clubs
- Gutenberg
- Heidelberg
- Heine
- Henry Garnett
- Hildegard of Bingen
- Holderlin
- holland
- Iain Sinclair
- Ian Fleming
- IPAD
- IPod
- Jacobean
- James 1st
- James I
- Jesuits
- Jewish mysticism
- John Le Carre
- Johnny Depp
- Josiah the Great
- Jules Verne
- Kearsney
- Kind of Blue
- King Lear
- Kloster Fahr
- koblenz
- Konigswinter
- Kueppersmuehle art museum
- La Chambre
- Lansleburg
- Leica
- Leslie Howard
- Library
- Limmat
- Linn
- Lodi
- London
- London Orbital
- Lorelei
- Loreley
- Lyon
- Mainz
- Malls
- manhattan
- Mantua
- maps
- Martin Luther
- Masculinity
- Max Frisch
- Milan
- Miles Davis
- mobile phones
- Montargis
- Montreuil-sur-mer
- Moonraker
- Moulins
- Mouse Tower
- Move It
- MSV Duisberg
- Music
- Napoleon
- Needle Park
- Neil Rhodes
- Nevers
- Neville Chamberlain
- New travel
- New York
- newspapers
- Niebelungen
- Noel Coward
- Norman Foster
- Oppenheim
- Oviva
- Padua
- Paris
- Patrick Leigh Fermor
- Petersburg Hotel
- Philippa Perry
- Photography
- Pimpernell Smith
- Pizzighettone
- Pleasure
- point of view
- Polke
- Postwar
- pre-trip
- Printing
- Propaganda
- Property
- Pussy Galore
- Quentin Stafford-Fraser
- Radio 4
- Rheinstein castle
- Rhine
- Rhine Cruise
- Rhinefelden
- Richter
- Riesling
- River
- Rivoli
- Robin Hunt
- Romanesque
- Romans
- Russell Gardens
- Salon des Amateurs
- San Pellegrino
- Sarkozy
- Schwetzinger
- September 11
- Shakespeare
- Sigfried
- Sir Hugo Drax
- Sizzles
- Slate
- Speyer
- St Margaret's Bay
- St. Denis
- St. Leu
- St.Goar
- Stipel bar
- Strasbourg
- Swiss Watching
- Tatort
- technologies that changed the world
- Technorati
- Temple Ewell
- The Gamblers
- The Gunpowder Plot
- The Rhine
- theroux
- They Seek Him Here
- Thomas Coryat
- Thomas Coryate
- Thusis
- To Be or Not to Be
- tom coryat
- Tony Judt
- Tour du Pin
- Tourism
- Travel
- Travel Writing
- Trieste and the meaning of nowhere
- Turin
- Uncategorized
- Underground
- Val Cenis
- Venice
- Vera Frankl
- Vercelli
- Verona
- Vlissigen. Coryat
- Vlissingen
- W.H. Auden
- Walenstadt
- Way Down Upon the Swanee River
- Weather
- wikipedia
- Will Smith
- Worms
- wotton
- Zurich
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Written in Dusseldorf
After the poetry night, coming soon after Beuys, Tartort, and salsa… North By Northwest, again, on German TV Early enough, as a kid, the RushmoreScenes, the crop duster, the drunk drivingThat today seems risible when the lawsOf gravity don’t exist … Continue reading
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The Film Forum Duisburg
There are, I should say, eight fabulous Anselm Kiefers here. Pocket Spaces Q. Where are the nice bars?A. In Dusseldorf Q. What about Innenhafen?A. It’s made by computers Spaces in between are pockets of resistance,Fight escalated prairies of market perfectionBy … Continue reading
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Rhinetown, a little different
Rhinetown A rash of Rhine-bank motor homes broadcast Bundesliga From Achilles’ shields and the Jesuit college is closing: The group can deal, will later uncork Gewürztraminer At wine festivals concluded by ‘rock stars’ overdosing On crimes committed against musical humanity … Continue reading
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Into Germany, leaving the Alsatians
The walking out of Strasbourg dismantles the theories of “tiny” spatial differences somewhat, but only because I can’t knock on doors and check out the Biedermanns in their many forms in the massive mansion blocks. But, things change again long … Continue reading
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On Marrying Elvis Presley
There’s a courtyard view from my hotel room; not looking towards the cathedral but away to another space I’ve not been. Leaving by the front entrance is a confrontational experience, fighting the many who sit in the cafes and restaurants, … Continue reading
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Basel: the joy of dances with death
For my research work at UCL I’ve been reading this year a lot of late sixteenth and early seventeenth century religious texts, protestant and catholic. This is post-reformation media, as it were. It looks to justify, frighten, unify, inspire, confirm … Continue reading
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Im Brugg, No Colin Farrell.
If there are typos, it is because it is sunny outside the Cafe in Basel I’m posting from. And the IPAD screen is not perfect. Will sort out from Strasbourg. We stay low in Baden, leave the youth hostel and … Continue reading
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Shakespeare in Splugen, exclusive
The payback is the next day. Unlike Tom I’m not in training. Everything aches, I walk like John Wayne after a three day ride. Brokeback Splugen. There is another gardening centre past the railway station at Thusis, which makes three … Continue reading
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Prep
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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