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Viewing mind-altering art (Guernica, Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, Spain)

Mona Lisa, Louvre Museum, Paris

Alain de Botton in The Art of Travel (Penguin, 2003) has a chapter on mind-altering art. He uses the example of Vincent van Gogh’s time in Provence to show how great art can help us come to see things differently. Continue reading →

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April 5, 2017 peterfrankiswrites
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Novelty

Pigeon on wall Casablanca
What could today’s traveller possibly add to what is already known about Casablanca? Continue reading →

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March 10, 2017March 13, 2017 peterfrankiswrites
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Getting ready (Feb. 2017)

desert

[this looks so much better on my site]

  • Consolidate all necessary paperwork (tickets, visas, vouchers) into robust fiche to be carried on person at all times. Continue reading →
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February 21, 2017March 20, 2017 peterfrankiswrites
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Wineglass Bay, E. Tas, (42.13°S 148.31°E)

Wineglass bay 1875

[This looks so much better on my site]

… is someone’s beach-idea perfected in whale-bone Continue reading →

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February 19, 2017February 27, 2017 peterfrankiswrites
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Alice

alice
Eleanor lies naked on the bed. No thoughts, she is pale and empty and a little chilly from the air-conditioning. Continue reading →

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January 23, 2017January 28, 2017 peterfrankiswrites
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The road not taken (38.0072° S, 177.2871° E)

kraken

Rather than the long road, the coast road,
the narrow goat road that follows
the bowls and bends of this sundered shore,
sea on your left or now on your right,
we turned inland, for we had far to go.

Continue reading →

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January 13, 2017January 13, 2017 peterfrankiswrites
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