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One little bit of Amsterdam

Posted in travel, tagged , , , on March 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

I have lain in the Vondelpark for possibly over an hour. A middle aged couple is entwined, with flutes of champagne, near where I am, and a tiny spider is clambering over the threads of my sleeve. It is wonderful: there is so much water in the Netherlands. Such huge sheets of glass in the [...]

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“Time, Speed, Distance …” – why I suppose I won’t hear very radical things from the Transport Studies Unit at Oxford University Centre for the Environment

Posted in travel on January 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

David Banister has just been speaking to the School of Geography and the Environment in Oxford. His talk was entitled “The Trilogy of Distance, Speed and Time” and was supposed to outline the “new, modern literature” about these things and the role geographers might play in conceptualising or theorising transport and mobility. Banister started off [...]

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of Lord Azazel, epilepsy, life modelling, and the Jurassic Coast

Posted in travel on September 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Some non-contiguous shards from my kaleidoscope today. Coming back down from North Yorkshire, my hitching partner and I got into a car with three Pakistani blokes from Derby. They were only going about three junctions in our desired direction, so it was technically bad hiking practice to accept the lift. But it was great fun [...]

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did i mention i like totally hitch-hiked to the north yorkshire moors and back with my friend rose, yah

Posted in hitch-hiking, travel on September 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »

It is night time, and I have finished dancing. But this time it is an arrested dance lingering in me: a merely functional termination. The summer’s end is wreaking depressions on my skull and they have only been intensified. I am in a languorous crisis, directionless and unable to breathe. It’s been weeks and I [...]

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In which Geneva is compared to the south of England

Posted in travel on August 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »

I am – which is odd to say – ecstatic about being at home. Home is, by the way, nestled fortunately on the French side of the border from Geneva, with the Salève on one side, the Jura on the other, the Alps in plain view, and the lake a twenty-minute bus ride away. Here, [...]

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the corrida

Posted in gender, travel on July 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

CF this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/28/catalonia-vote-on-bullfighting-ban For better of for worse, I watched a bull fight in the Plaza de Toros (where I was staying with my mother and a friend), Madrid. Interestingly this picture is from some odd evangelical Christian website. When contemplating the spectacle of a tortured bull, some people are clearly tempted by Christ-and-the-Passion metaphors. Indeed, [...]

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(reminiscence from April -) a friend and a film lead from Wolverhampton

Posted in film, travel on June 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Brief notes from Wolverhampton, whither I now seem to journey, occasionally, and which looks like this: to visit the wonderful R, who looks like this (ie likeWilliam Hazlitt): In Wolverhampton there is a café with pictures of golliwogs on its walls. The waitresses are all very old, and painstakingly write down “2 glasses of water” on [...]

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And my thumb will hover over the roads until I die

Posted in travel on June 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

It’s true; you actually need a bit of muscle in your arms if you want to hitch with commitment. I’m a believer in the thumb method, I’m not one for signs. I tried a holding a sign that said >HEIDELBERG< one time, and it got me nowhere. I think people drove past because they weren’t [...]

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