Saturday, 31 July 2010

Prep

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Been walking around Manhattan with my IPAD, getting into the truly mobile world of digital travel. A thing of wonder. Even bumped into a fam...
Friday, 23 July 2010

The Kind of Picture I Can't Take

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But will really try this time. From Magnum Photos picture of the week. That's Alec Guinness learning his lines. I'd say Richmond, up...

Countdown

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Whitstable, where it all began, and one of Peter's faves. So tomorrow the countdown begins: first to New York to hang with Portia, meet ...
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Thursday, 24 June 2010

It begins again soon...

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...but this time with an IPAD.
Wednesday, 24 June 2009

In preparation: part two of the Journey

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I will shortly be starting to post my version of the journey from Venice to Bad Ragatz as an exercise in "recollection in tranquility...
Monday, 16 February 2009

Now this is what I think of when I remember that Come Fly with Me is 50 years old

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Flickr has some great vintage French tourist shots. Thanks to Olen Steinhauer. And here's some Calais now , thanks also to Flickr.
Wednesday, 14 January 2009

Amiens raises an eyebrow

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One more film poster soon for the Jules Verne museum? ...director McG, who let slip that he wants Will Smith to star in his just-announced ...
Monday, 5 January 2009

An Exhibition of the old new media

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The resemblance between early Renaissance journalism and the current state of the Internet is uncanny. But there's a chastening lesson h...
Tuesday, 30 December 2008

Just like that old Thin Lizzy song...

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I can't do this, but it looks like the future to me. A nice feature of Google maps: Take a GPS log file Convert it into the .KML format ...
Tuesday, 23 December 2008

Happy christmas

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I'll be speaking about Tom next year. And walking some more, and repeating some of the journeys I've already made. Robin
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