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
tourists
Novelty
What could today’s traveller possibly add to what is already known about Casablanca? Continue reading
Getting ready (Feb. 2017)
[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
Wineglass Bay, E. Tas, (42.13°S 148.31°E)
[This looks so much better on my site]
… is someone’s beach-idea perfected in whale-bone Continue reading
Alice
Eleanor lies naked on the bed. No thoughts, she is pale and empty and a little chilly from the air-conditioning. Continue reading
The road not taken (38.0072° S, 177.2871° E)
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.
