Hat Tip to Tim at IT Freedom for this route plan for New York to Paris.
Someone sure likes to travel the easy way! Keep going down the steps to at least step 23!
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Tuesday, 10 April 2007
Monday, 09 April 2007
Re-Reading Nick Thorpe
I've been re-reading Nick Thorpe's books on travelling. Eight men in a boat is well worth a read, telling the improbable tale of eight men sailing a reed boat off to Easter Island. Adrift is a fantastic tale of leaving the house one day and thumbing a life (on boats) around the cost of Scotland.
Both books focus on the human relationships that abound when journeying, and both show a deeper side to life. If you haven;t read them then get them out of your local library or buy them from GreenMetropolis.com
"Eight Men and a Duck: An Improbable Voyage by Reed Boat to Easter Island" (Nick Thorpe)
"Adrift in Caledonia: Boat-hitching for the Unenlightened" (Nick Thorpe)
Long time no blog.
I decided to stay off blogging as part of Lent, so now Easter has passed off we go again.
My sister Karen came over yesterday for Easter Lunch, and we had a great time out in the garden with Rebecca's swing. She loves it.
I've taken this week off work to catch up on the many jobs that are sitting around waiting to be done.
The main one is to tidy up the study, and my bedroom. Both are full of books and paper and need to be seriously spring cleaned! I'll be updating the reading list, but I'm going to start of with Affluenza by Oliver James
Its a book about "a contagious middle class virus causing depression, anxiety, addition and ennui, a global tour of infected minds by a renowned psychologist in search of the secret of being successful and staying sane".
Not totally me, but as Will Self said, "should be mandatory ready for everyone".
Seriously though I read the review in the latest third way magazine and it sounded interesting, I'll let you know.
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