Thursday, 15 May 2008

Today is the 400th anniversary of Tom's Departure

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A picture from Padua's railway station Thanks Tom for inspiring my walk, changed my life - a little And in other news : the Venice bott...
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Monday, 31 December 2007

Happy thing

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To 2008, Switzerland, Germany & Turner For Tom and Everyone Else
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Saturday, 22 December 2007

Friendly Fires "Paris"

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Best song of the Year 2007, and even Tom would have approved
Monday, 5 November 2007

As may be clear

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The view from Bad Ragatz I am writing. Betwixt's quest begins again soon, but for now the journey in between is one of words not footwor...
Friday, 31 August 2007

Fire in the sky-ai-ai (part one)

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Over the top of the pass and not so far away Wagner and his brand of booted thunder is waiting: this morning's storm is just a reminder ...
Thursday, 30 August 2007

Cha Cha Cha...changes

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The hills are alive with the sound of thunder, lightning, not very frightening - but a few of the "Freddy" moustaches are. (They a...
Wednesday, 29 August 2007

Re Boot - now just for walking

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Up into the hill villages on the way to the Splunga pass, Switzerland and beyond. I am at last Tom, because the Apple is not booting up, and...
Tuesday, 28 August 2007

Apple and Moleskine not Compatible

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The laptop is very poorly, and that makes posting a little difficult. It's all going down on paper: pencil and the Moleskine, the red ho...
Tuesday, 21 August 2007

Irene Grandi - Bruci La Città

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This song is everywhere in Italy...

Tommy in Venice (I)

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"…The first place of Venice that was inhabited, is that which now they call the Rialto, which word is derived from rivus altus, that is...
Friday, 17 August 2007

Is the Earth More Free?

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“…Watch the manoeuvres of the week-end hikers Massed on parade with Kodaks or with Leicas…” Letter to Lord Byron At the beginning of this tr...
Tuesday, 14 August 2007

Venice: Had 'em all

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“I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices…” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile If you type “Venice, Loneliness” into the data...
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Monday, 13 August 2007

Guess Where

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The sons of their fathers

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“The only way you know you’re not in Italy, not in Venice, when you’re at The Venetian hotel [in Las Vegas]? Easy. The water is blue, not th...
Friday, 10 August 2007

Transmission time @ the Cappella degli Scrovegni

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The strangely scientific logo for the Scrovegni museum... It is very hard to look honestly at Giotto’s art after reading Richard Dawkins’ “...

Postscript to the Rain

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Last night it rained for eight seconds, which still briefly emptied the square. One brave couple sat it out. I asked Luca, a waiter, what th...
Thursday, 9 August 2007

Stream of rain and consciousness

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Shaun believes the English novel died in 1943 with the “Establishment’s” rejection of “Finnegans Wake”. Especially Virginia Woolf; and she w...

Padua Requiem

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“There is one speciall thing wanting in this citie, which made me not a little wonder; namely, that frequency of people which I observed in ...

Post rain music

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After the first storm twenty minutes of pleasure: Ravel, Vivaldi and Bach outside the Palazzo Bo, empty streets suddenly fill, as if in reco...
Wednesday, 8 August 2007

Time out in Padua

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"There is one moral of all human tales; ‘Tis but the same rehearsal of the past, First freedom, and then glory – when that fails Wealth...