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Of Rippers and Strippers and Adventurers

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RIPPERS AND STRIPPERS Christmas, that wonderous and magical  time for the giving and, (you hope), the receiving of […]

December 27, 2018 drifting, driving, Gifts, Home, Philosophy, Road trip, TRAVEL, Travel writing, writing

Down to the Levée

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On the coldest of days, leeing through frozen forest and down to the levées to go with the […]

December 15, 2018 Art, Boats, countryside, drifting, driving, photography, St Satur, The Loire, TRAVEL, Uncategorized

Off Your Trolley

In the US they are “shopping carts” (I believe). The French refer to them, rather imperiously as “Chariots” […]

December 9, 2018 Art, drifting, photography

Dinner Is A Lonely Place

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The dinng room for broken souls. A restaurant for the lost and lonely. A night out where the […]

December 8, 2018 Art, drifting, Edgelands, France, gastronomy, photography

On The Rails

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(Unfinished Journey home) Rolling home through the night from a southern city Rolling past early rising liquid gold […]

October 25, 2018 drifting, Edgelands, France, Home, photography, Poetry, Railways, Uncategorized

RIVERFLOW (The Therapy of Drifting)

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Riverflow The therapy of drifiting. Aimless and pointless driving across a skeletal winter forest On lonely roads down […]

October 25, 2018 Ageing, countryside, drifting, driving, Landscapes, photography, Poetry

Fatigue

It is a Sunday afternoon fatigue. An exquisite, autumnal fatigue of irresponsible lassitude that wil lapse into long […]

October 7, 2018 back to school, drifting, Uncategorized, Weekend, Work

Holidays. The usefulness and purpose of

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Chosen Holiday Reading this year – the Collected Essays of George Orwell – (Penguin Classics ISBN 978-0-14-118306-0) – […]

July 30, 2018 drifting, Holidays, Philosophy

Thoughts on Travel Writing

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In this holiday season, some thoughts on Travel Writin, taken from my 2014 novel “Ashes for Salmon” – […]

July 29, 2018 drifting, summer, Tourism, TRAVEL, Travel writing, Uncategorized, writing

Tourists

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Tourists – we are, we have been and we will be. The whole world is on holiday, and […]

July 29, 2018 Boats, canals, drifting, Europe, France, Holidays, London, Paris, photography, Sailing, summer, Tourism, TRAVEL

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