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...
Unlikely as it may seem, the way I stumbled across your fascinating blog just now was by typing 'Lodi' into Google. I'm about to go there tomorrow (though I'm in Cambridge right now) and will probably call in at Crema on the way (the purpose of my google search was to see if there's a bus betwixt the two. I'm still none the wiser about that: I suppose you walk!) I've printed out a big wadge of your posts to read on the way out: by the time I get to Lodi, it will perhaps feel like home from home... No doubt there's an element of personal transference simply through reading travel writing, as well as in actually being a 'first-hand tourist', so to speak. Be that as it may, I'm now really keen to see the place...
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Unlikely as it may seem, the way I stumbled across your fascinating blog just now was by typing 'Lodi' into Google. I'm about to go there tomorrow (though I'm in Cambridge right now) and will probably call in at Crema on the way (the purpose of my google search was to see if there's a bus betwixt the two. I'm still none the wiser about that: I suppose you walk!) I've printed out a big wadge of your posts to read on the way out: by the time I get to Lodi, it will perhaps feel like home from home... No doubt there's an element of personal transference simply through reading travel writing, as well as in actually being a 'first-hand tourist', so to speak. Be that as it may, I'm now really keen to see the place...
Jeremy Thurlow
http://jeremythurlow.wordpress.com
Are you part of the Robinson college crew? I will read more of your site later. enjoy lodi
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