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The Elbe Valley 2012 – Food & Wine
Food & Wine Food There’s not much to say about the food on our journey. For lunch we bought rolls, cheese, ham, sausage, cakes, fruit and so on where we could or bought filled rolls from bakers’ shops. The local … Continue reading →
The Elbe Valley 2012 – Walking Trails
Malerweg, Weinwanderweg Malerweg The local tourist board markets this part of Germany as “Saxon Switzerland” (“Sächsische Schweiz”). It’s like Switzerland to the same extent that Crawley is like Prague. But it does have a unique landscape of towering sandstone bluffs … Continue reading →
The Elbe Valley 2012 – Travel
Corso Reisen, Travel, Maps, Hotels Corso Reisen Clive had booked the holiday with Corso Reisen, a German outdoor holiday company he had used before. They provided maps of the route but no written instructions, arranged our hotel accommodation and organised … Continue reading →
The Elbe Valley 2012 – Part 3
Dresden – Radebeul – Meissen Dresden to Radebeul, 27 May We’d walked into Dresden alongside the Elbe. The route out headed north away from the river and through Dresden’s urban sprawl. It was the Sunday of the May holiday weekend … Continue reading →
The Elbe Valley 2012 – Part 2
Pirna to Dresden 25 May This third day was the least enjoyable of the holiday, for me at least. It was rather warm and we spent virtually the whole day walking through suburbs on tarmac roads, first through the outskirts … Continue reading →
The Elbe Valley 2012 – Part 1
Although hardly Famous we were definitely Five: Clive, John, Stuart, Tom and me.* A 4.00am start, a bus, a plane, a taxi, a train and another taxi had taken me to the village of Krippen with the other four. Krippen … Continue reading →
Pure by Andrew Miller
As my recent experience of prize-winning books has been a bit mixed I’m glad to say that I enjoyed this 2011 Costa Book of the Year. Set in late 18th century Paris it tells the story of a young engineer … Continue reading →
New Finnish Grammar by Diego Marani
Quite a few people rate this book highly but I am not one of them. It’s tedious, dull, unconvincing and verging on pretentious. Trying to understand the enthusiasm, I even tried to see it as allegory but failed there too. … Continue reading →
The Lost College and other Oxford stories by Oxpens (various authors)
The assistant in the charity shop recommended this collection of Oxford-based short stories by Oxford-based writers (collectively Oxpens – geddit?). It was a good suggestion. It reminded me why the short story, done well, is a very pleasing genre. Inevitably … Continue reading →