THE LAST TOURIST - After Thomas Coryat (1577–1617)
Robin Hunt walked across some of Europe in the spring and summer 2007. In 2010 and 2011 he returned to finish the route, the poor man's Grand Tour: here's travel, cities, the country, art, love, literature, mirrors and printing presses. The Old Europe of 1608, the confused New Europe and much in between. The End (of the writing) is in sight...
Monday 21 May 2007
Downtown
I choose the Baroque café in Amiens, right by the Somme, because Tom Coryat was active in Europe in the “Baroque” era, the history book tells me. I must research this. Here all is riverside cafés, Cathedral views, and Pink Floyd. “Wish You Were Here.” It reminds me vividly of the center of Ljubljana.
Sunday night: all is quiet but the coach party-people.The centre an oasis.
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Looks gorgeous. Do you--and did Tom--have the desire to just sit still there for a week?
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