Showing posts with label travel writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label travel writing. Show all posts
Sunday, February 02, 2020

Learn about Freya Stark: "As an explorer, Stark was an acute observer, and a connoisseur of people."

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Photo credit: The Idle Woman blog. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town, is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” Thi...
Tuesday, November 26, 2019

12 Days of Slovenia & Trieste (Part 3): Finding my way to Ljubljana in 1987.

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The Dragon Bridge, Ljubljana in 1987. Vienna Secession style (circa 1900). The following was posted at NA Confidential on May 25, 201...
Thursday, July 11, 2019

ON THE AVENUES: Trieste, New Albany and the meaning of nowhere.

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"Melancholy is Trieste’s chief rapture. In almost everything I read about this city, by writers down the centuries, melancholy is evok...
Saturday, September 01, 2018

More about Patrick Leigh Fermor, travel writing and a lost European world.

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This documentary about travel writing on BBC Four is Travellers' Century, Episode Three: Patrick Leigh Fermor , with Benedict Allen. P...
Thursday, August 30, 2018

ON THE AVENUES: From Baltic to Mediterranean, the diary of an unrepentant New Albanian Europhile.

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ON THE AVENUES: From Baltic to Mediterranean, the diary of an unrepentant New Albanian Europhile. A weekly column by Roger A. Baylor. ...
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Thursday, June 01, 2017

30 years ago today, sightseeing in Sofia (photos).

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Previously: Five days in Skopje with the greatest seismologist of them all .  Thirty years ago today, I arrived in Sofia, capital of th...
Thursday, May 25, 2017

ON THE AVENUES: Welcome to wherever you are, and come to think of it, Ljubljana will do nicely.

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ON THE AVENUES: Welcome to wherever you are, and come to think of it, Ljubljana will do nicely. A weekly column by Roger A. Baylor. (T...
Thursday, June 02, 2016

ON THE AVENUES: A few beers at Vladimir’s local in Ostrava in June, 1989.

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ON THE AVENUES: A few beers at Vladimir’s local in Ostrava in June, 1989. A weekly column by Roger A. Baylor. In the summer of 1989, t...
Saturday, April 30, 2016

Old Albania, 1994: Beer in the Land of the Eagle (Part 3 of 3).

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Part 3 of 3. Back in the Brewing Business in Tirana. In contrast to the brewery at Korça, the plant dating from 1952 in Albania's...