[ 00:55 monday 8 february - haggerston road ] in the last nine months i’ve accumulated an intimidating backlog of slides waiting to be scanned and uploaded. in an effort to catch up here are four sets comprising seventy-six pictures: – volker’s barge, clapton to limehouse (v 2009) : 15 pictures – last visit to [...]
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[ 23:42 monday 1 february - haggerston road, london ] here’s a film of my journey to the los roques atoll, eighty miles off the caribbean coast of venezuela. it covers the journey to find matias on his coral islet, the omnipresent easterly wind, pop art hermit crabs, adrien’s friends on the yacht and on [...]
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[ 17:49 thursday 31 december - bus from caracas to playa grande, venezuela ] stuck in traffic at the edge of caracas airport with landing airliners passing low overhead. car horns and salsa music blare on every side, punctuated by the report of exploding fireworks as excitement builds towards new year. the sixteen seats of [...]
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[ 08:58 monday 28 september - bus from central palermo to punta raisi airport, sicilia ] it’s touch and go whether i’ll make my flight back to london. i got to the station quarter of an hour early for my 8:09 train. after twenty minutes it struck me as odd that the station was swarming [...]
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[ 18:56 sunday 2 august - river stort, roydon, essex ] sitting in the saloon of volker’s barge as the evening sun filters through the trees and sparkles on the river outside. it’s an old dutch barge to which a superstructure was added in the seventies. there’s lots of light and space. most of the [...]
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[ 17:09 thursday 26 march - virgin flight 11, london to boston ] arcing across the ice floes towards nova scotia the cabin crew distributes a meal they badge as “breakfast” or “a light snack” depending on the time of day. today the latter. the meals are identical either way. inflight time has a structure [...]
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[ 09:10 friday 2 january - schonefeld airport, berlin ] my first despatch of the year comes from schonefeld airport’s excellent bakery, where i sit watching snow falling on the tarmac outside. timur dropped me off an hour ago. i’m trying to avoid rapid movement. or indeed movement of any kind. a week in berlin [...]
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[ 09:16 saturday 27 december - great western train, camborne to london ] pulling out of redruth the sun surmounts the horizon, sending long shadows racing across the frost-crusted fields and heathland that stretches to the north coast. the sky is perfectly blue. a friendly spaniel slithers under the seat in front and nuzzles my [...]
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[ 09:38 monday 24 november - eurostar 9019, gare du nord, paris ] a cold clear-skied morning in paris. four minutes to departure. the carriage is a-bustle with people stowing luggage and finding their seats. a cursory scan suggests three quarters tourist to one quarter business. that ratio would have been reversed on trains two [...]
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[ 22:05 thursday 23 october - dulles airport, virginia ] dulles airport again, on my way back to london. being in washington two weeks before the presidential election has been deeply bizarre. news media are saturated. nick-nack shops are stacked with election trinkets, typically including lifesize cardboard cutouts of the two pair of presidential and [...]
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