Friday, 5 December 2008

Postwar Europe

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Without such collective amnesia, Europe's astonishing post-war recovery would not have been possible. Tony Judt Postwar
Tuesday, 2 December 2008

Paris: city of booksellers?

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Those Left Bank book stalls in Paris [Bouquinistes] filled with First Editions and rare collections of poetry and are in trouble: books aren...
Tuesday, 18 November 2008

Founder of Technorati launches public beta of his customised print travel guides...

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...here's why: ...what I learned is that there is really something special about holding a physical printed book in your hands. Especial...
Monday, 27 October 2008

Tom would have loved this

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Saturday, 27 September 2008

Quicker than Tom

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Mr. Rossy, a Swiss pilot, leapt from the plane about 8,200 feet over Calais, France, blasted across 22 miles of water and deployed his parac...
Wednesday, 17 September 2008

The ever generous Paul Theroux

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Thinking about Tom and his amazing Jacobean times is actually easier when not in his exact footsteps. But I'm never far away, even back ...
Friday, 5 September 2008

Tom and Now

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Thanks Google. Makes it all much easier. Betwixt continues, and will be back regularly soon. For now don't forget around robin.
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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