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Tuscany Traveller: Faulty Tower
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012. It was not until the 1970s that experts began to worry that, with the tower moving a millimetre or two every year, unless something were done it would fall flat on its south-eastern face, and that, while a tower with a tilt of 5 degrees may be one of the world’s wonders, a horizontal one would prove to be a fairly resistible tourist attraction. Wednesday, July 25, 2012. Thx for your spirited account of the Tower! But what did they contrive, in the end? View my complete profile.
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Tuscany Traveller: Mr. Butterfly
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011. A century later, another tormented genius lived in Lucca: the great jazz trumpeter, Chet Baker. The funny valentine who thought he could live undisturbed in sleepy Lucca spent a year there as a guest of the. Carcere di San Giorgio. On which he sang some Italian songs he wrote in Lucca jail. Wednesday, August 17, 2011. Whats up, constantly i used to check blog posts here early in the break of day, since i enjoy to find out more and more. My blog: Catering Orange County.
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Tuscany Traveller: February 2011
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Sunday, February 20, 2011. What about those Blues! No, not Chelsea, Everton.) It’s the 119th minute –the last minute of extra time – and up steps Leighton Baines to take a free kick from outside the box. He curls it into the corner to take it to penalties. Dare I watch? Reading next, at Goodison Park on March 1 - St. David’s Day. Sunday, February 20, 2011. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Simple template. Template images by luoman.
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Tuscany Traveller: Here Today and Here Tomorrow
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Thursday, November 17, 2011. Here Today and Here Tomorrow. One summer evening in 1787, in the conservatory of his garden in Lausanne, Edward Gibbon put down his pen having finished writing The. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Florence and Tuscany: A Literary Guide. But while Gibbon’s magnificent work had taken him 23 years, my humble effort has been my constant companion for fewer than 23 months – but long enough for me to miss it now it's gone. Thursday, November 17, 2011. Hello, My...
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Tuscany Traveller: Serendipity
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Tuesday, August 16, 2011. Is the sort of book I wanted this one to be. (It isn’t.). Places can also introduce you to writers you. You knew, but didn’t. I thought I knew English author E. M. Forster - but that was before I discovered the medieval towered city of San Gimignano (below) and read. Where Angels Fear to Tread. Which is set there. It was his first novel, begun on his first visit to Tuscany with his mother in 1900 at the age of 21 - eight years before. A Room with a View. And 21 years before.
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Tuscany Traveller: August 2012
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Friday, August 03, 2012. What's in a Name? My secret ambition is to have my name in The Oxford English Dictionary. Pass the time in telling each other stories, each trying to outdo the other in levels of impropriety and bawdiness - a kind of Italian Canterbury Tales. Friday, August 03, 2012. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Expatriate Brit living in France whose passions include Everton, travel, art, books, history, wine, jazz, the Mediterranean, and Italy - especially Tuscany - and writing about them.
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Tuscany Traveller: January 2011
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Thursday, January 27, 2011. Lord of the Lies. 8221; and miming the drawing of a pistol. I took it to mean that he thought overwhelming numerical superiority was better than shooting first and asking questions afterwards. Then last night I saw Lord Blair of Boughton on TV, labelled as "Consultant on Strategic Policing". Wasn’t he the Prime Minister who said he had been advised by the Lord Chancellor that he could legally start a war? Perhaps the gendarme got it right after all. Thursday, January 27, 2011.
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Tuscany Traveller: November 2008
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Friday, November 28, 2008. What do you do when you discover that the book you’ve been working on for four years has just been published - by another writer who’d been researching it for twelve? So when Carlyle finished. In 1835, he lent the one and only manuscript – there were no photocopiers either – to Mill to read. Mill’s housemaid, thinking it was scrap, burned it. What did Carlyle do? He sat down and wrote it again, and then – how's this for trust? Without which there might not have been. Thought th...
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Tuscany Traveller: Hey diddle-dee-dee: a writer’s life for me
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Monday, September 24, 2012. Hey diddle-dee-dee: a writer’s life for me. ON November 17 last year – was it really that long ago? But I can’t help being reminded of Saul Bellow’s bellow: “Where were you when all I had was a sheet of paper? 8221; I have been censored – and censured – for saying that Tony Blair is known in Tuscany as Il Scroccone. Monday, September 24, 2012. Thanks for that Monique. But moi? I thought I was being stoical! Writer friends say Sue! And did you see the cover? Oh, I prefer stoica...
