SLOVAKIA | Friday, 30 May 2008 | Views [1288] | Comments [2]
We leave Prague slowly, winding our way past
overgrown tracks and large, concrete, bunker-shaped buildings; sidings
graffiti-covered and desolate. Even the myth of central Prague only
extends a little way, it seems. If you head the right way, towards ... Read more >
GERMANY | Monday, 26 May 2008 | Views [1127] | Comments [3]
I'm going to let you all into a little secret: Munich is fantastic. Really, it's great. Ok, so it's not a well kept secret, the city was full of tourists, particularly American, but judging from people's reactions to the fact I was going there, it really ... Read more >
FRANCE | Friday, 23 May 2008 | Photo Gallery
Fontainebleau and Paris, take deux
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SPAIN | Thursday, 22 May 2008 | Photo Gallery
Thank you to AD for some of these photos.
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FRANCE | Tuesday, 13 May 2008 | Views [3136] | Comments [3]
Don't pitch your tent in an ant's nest. Especially if you intend to leave the inner door flap open to 'allow the air to circulate' during the day. Don't play football on astroturf with bare feet. It will give you blisters half the size of your ... Read more >
FRANCE | Tuesday, 13 May 2008 | Views [538]
There is a certain philosophical patience, a slightly stubborn stoicism, required to be an injured climber in Fontainebleau. Or perhaps it's all just me. I returned to the Forest last Thursday, five days now. Better prepared, better equipped this ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Wednesday, 30 Apr 2008 | Views [563] | Comments [6]
For the entire week I thought it was the wrong day. This wouldn't matter, you would have thought, not when you're camping in the forest 5km from the nearest town. Well no. But when you're supposed to ring someone on Friday, it takes on a new urgency.... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Wednesday, 30 Apr 2008 | Views [811] | Comments [6]
I should have known better. I should have realised it wasn't going to be that easy. People had said things like, "Sure, you can do Fontainebleau on foot," heavily accenting the possibility of it, "But I probably wouldn't. "... Read more >
FRANCE | Tuesday, 29 Apr 2008 | Photo Gallery
Climbing trees
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UNITED KINGDOM | Monday, 28 Apr 2008 | Photo Gallery
It does what it says on the tin
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UNITED KINGDOM | Monday, 28 Apr 2008 | Views [524] | Comments [3]
Leaving Cherbourg was not going to be something I particularly mourned. Paris, with all its mixed memories, is still one of my favourite cities in the world and I couldn't wait to see my friends and enjoy it all. The train there proved a ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Monday, 28 Apr 2008 | Views [526] | Comments [1]
Thank you everyone who took the time to comment or email - I will do my best not to sound too pompous, though I'll struggle. Anyway I'm back in Paris now, after nearly a week camping in the forest of Fontainebleau in a trip in which so much went wrong ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Tuesday, 22 Apr 2008 | Views [1221] | Comments [8]
The crash of splintering glass jerked me from my sleep as the books from my bag were scattered across the floor. The coach lurched to a halt and the confusion was immediate. A car lay, sprawled and flattened in the outside lane. My journey is, I hope, ... Read more >
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