BETWIXT: Europe

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...

Tuesday, 1 May 2007

Europe: From the People's Daily (China) online

The opening of the large museums indeed make people feel the essence of the European Culture. Various large events being held in the museums...

Saturday, 28 April 2007

Late King Lear Weather Hits Kent

April 28, Saturday. (Bloomberg) A magnitude 4.3 earthquake struck Kent, a region southeast of London known as "the Garden of England...

Monday, 23 April 2007

Coming Shortly

One year short of the 400th anniversary of the “first” tourist’s journey across Europe, Robin Hunt follows in the footsteps of one of Shakes...

Coming Shortly 2

MAY 14TH 2007 399 years ago today an under employed Englishman whose London drinking friends included William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, John...

Sunday, 22 April 2007

Shakespeare News

The idea of the Renaissance Computer will feature here over the next few months. Meanwhile in America and London ... And happy birthday... ...

Wednesday, 18 April 2007

The Scarlett Pimpernell Looks at the World

there is more real romance hidden beneath the formal Anglo-Saxon exterior than is possessed by the efferverscent Gaul or the polished Roman....

And we'll moonrake here before we start

In Moonraker , written here by Ian Fleming in 1953, "M" said: “I'm always suspicious of sunburned men in England. Either they’...

Where we will begin, three miles from Dover

Wherefore to Dover? Let him answer that. King Lear, Act III Scene 7 Know'st thou the way to Dover? Both stile and g...

Tuesday, 17 April 2007

Juliette Greco - Sous Le Ciel De Paris

Inspiration as I plan... ...all that is missing is Miles So here he is.

Sunday, 15 April 2007

Background

I want to capture both the moment of Europe now and catch the echoes of its many histories. Trace the threads of European culture, and inves...

Saturday, 14 April 2007

Another inspiration, for sure

"And I think Chatwin spent a lot more time in libraries than he did on the road, and that is not a very glamorous thing to remind peopl...

Friday, 13 April 2007

Backwards Travel

September 1st

SEPTEMBER 1, 1939 W.H. Auden I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low disho...

Dover

DOVER August 1937 Steep roads, a tunnel through chalk downs, are the approaches; A ruined pharos overlooks a constructed bay; The sea-front...

Wednesday, 11 April 2007

About BETWIXT

"The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half". Fyodor Dostoevsk...

Tuesday, 10 April 2007

Dover Beach The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits; - on the French coast the light Gleams and is go...

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