Wednesday, 29 September 2010

Mainz Kind a Town

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An easy walk out of Oppenheim, and a sense that up there on the hill, the old clerics did their job further afield. They could see so far. T...
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Sunday, 26 September 2010

More Sagas

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A early sunny start in Worms takes me to the river, a statue of Hagen throwing the treasure of the Niebelungen into the Rhine, and the viney...
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Monday, 20 September 2010

My Diet in Worms

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Frankenthal's cloudy centre is drinking beer at 9.30, but it is Sunday. The weekend cyclists soon appear as I walk towards the Rhine, th...
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A short little palimpsest of Speyer

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Ever since I saw and became obsessed with the work of the German conceptual artist, Anselm Kiefer, I've wanted to see - and walk - and, ...
Saturday, 18 September 2010

Rolling on a - wrong - river. To Speyer, Spira as was

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Another Heidelberg philosphe weg, my fourth, down to the new bridge, past the Irish bar that Angela said was good, but I don't do Irish ...

Philosphies of Life

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Lazlo runs a brand new vinyl store in the clubby street; the late night old town, about half a hiccough from my bridge-side Heidelberg hotel...
Friday, 17 September 2010

Heidelberg: philosophy compulsory

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My favourite moment of the Baden-Baden Grayson Perry incident happens without him, back at the Capuchin-Radisson reception desk. An elderly ...

Grayson Perry and the travel pussy

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It's one part Hugh Hefner to another part Bond this morning, the first time in my life I have spent from waking until late afternoon...
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Wednesday, 15 September 2010

On the Road Road to Baden-Baden

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I get good karma kudos at breakfast, as word seems to have spread that I'm a crazy English walker, and not an investment banker with IPA...
Tuesday, 14 September 2010

Into Germany, leaving the Alsatians

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The walking out of Strasbourg dismantles the theories of "tiny" spatial differences somewhat, but only because I can't knock o...

On Marrying Elvis Presley

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There's a courtyard view from my hotel room; not looking towards the cathedral but away to another space I've not been. Leaving by t...
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Sunday, 12 September 2010

Strasbourg (1) The Spaces in Between

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It's warm in Strasbourg, the last days of real summer. Around the cathedral square and along the canals of the old city an influx of vis...
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Wednesday, 8 September 2010

Diccon Blues

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I've done my share of American/English bookshops around the world, from Buenos Aires to Cairo to Budapest. Yeah, I know. It is fair to s...

Basel: the joy of dances with death

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For my research work at UCL I've been reading this year a lot of late sixteenth and early seventeenth century religious texts, protestan...