Friday, 20 August 2010

The Splugen: from Sophie Marceau through Wesley Schneider to Billy Idol, and back

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In the only Thusis bar with hints of, er, modernity, it is small, very dark and chalet-ish inside. The outside terrace, part glassed, looks ...
Thursday, 19 August 2010

Thusis and Learning to slow down

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Three years ago my progress was pretty stately. Osyters in Whitsable, a night in my father's cottage near Dover, a Channel crossing; Cal...
Wednesday, 18 August 2010

My Tool for this Trip

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All this and more. It better bloody work.

Some thoughts on returning to Tom Coryat's Walk

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Three and half years ago when I started this recreation, this walk across Europe, I had a laptop, a portable hard drive, and a lot of materi...
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The Letter Goes Out, the rains start pouring in London

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Hello everyone, Tomorrow, August 19, I'll be restarting a walk across Europe (with some fuel-powered assistance) that I began in May 200...
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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...