Saturday, 4 September 2010

A few tales from the Rhine Riverbank, Spoiler Alert: No Wagner Yet

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Quite a lot of my days have started and continued like a tutorial at Oxford. The summoned by bells bit, woken from tired-limbed sleep by hon...
Friday, 3 September 2010

G-LOST, the fifty kilometre day

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The old town of Brugg, like so many of the smaller places on the trip at this time of the year, wakes with deep sharp shadows, and a sense t...
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Thursday, 2 September 2010

Im Brugg, No Colin Farrell.

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If there are typos, it is because it is sunny outside the Cafe in Basel I'm posting from. And the IPAD screen is not perfect. Will sort ...
Wednesday, 1 September 2010

Pussy Galore in Baden

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The rain continues; all night now and into the morning. We leave Zurich's cafe Schwarzenbach around 10.15 and it's still pouring. N...
Monday, 30 August 2010

I Belong to the Beat Generation

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Beat has a theory about travel. Beat is a winning Swiss-German combination of Eric Cantona, the French footballer turned actor-intellectual,...
Saturday, 28 August 2010

Across the Wallensee for a Zurich Reunion

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Bad Ragaz is utterly still, deader than ever, at 6.30am. There's nothing open for water or buns, and the hotel I'm staying in will n...
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Thursday, 26 August 2010

Bambi in Bad Ragaz; Heidi everywhere

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A 6am start in Chur to revisit the Cathedral and just try and imagine. By seven school kids are passing in clumps and couples and solitary s...

New Mobile, New Chur, New Labour

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Author's note. The photographs are all on my Facebook pages, so to see them you'll have to visit. I am half way through a panegyric ...
Monday, 23 August 2010

@ The Big Easy, aka Der Einfache Grosse

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Perhaps it is my age but the Sunday afternoon version of Chur's festival is far more to my taste. The alleyways and courtyards of the ol...
Sunday, 22 August 2010

Shakespeare in Splugen, exclusive

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The payback is the next day. Unlike Tom I'm not in training. Everything aches, I walk like John Wayne after a three day ride. Brokeback ...
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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...