#travelogue

[meredithmcclaren]

Another excerpt from the Greece travelogue.  Featuring The Palace of Knossos!

#meredith mcclaren #travelogue #greece #palace of knossos #king minos

[mote-historie]

Pola Negri, The terrasse of the Café de la Paix in Paris, Hand-colored Photographs by Burton Holmes, 1927.

“I must urgently recommend that you spend your first leisure hour in Paris at the corner table of the terrasse of the Café de la Paix. It is a fact known and proved that … you have only to sit at this corner long enough, and a friend will appear in time.” - Burton Holmes, Travelogues.

Pola Negri born Barbara Apolonia Chałupiec[a] (Polish, 1897-1987) was a stage and film actress and singer. She achieved worldwide fame during the silent and golden eras of Hollywood and European film for her tragedienne and femme fatale roles. She was also acknowledged as a sex symbol.

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[nonesuchrecords]

Happy 80th birthday, Joni Mitchell!

#joni mitchell #hbd #travelogue

[thebeautifulbook]

TO AND FRO, UP AND DOWN by Emma H. Adams (Cincinnati: Cranston & Stowe, 1888). Illustrated.

Southern California, and Washington Territory, with sketches inArizona, New Mexico, and British Columbia.

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[shadandrews]

#art #travelogue #kaleb

[infinitysisters]

As we were lunching, an elderly bourgeois couple entered, who evidently were regulars. He had a left hemiplegia from a stroke, but could still walk, and was dressed in a suit and tie, while his wife was expensively if not elegantly dressed. It seems they dressed like that just to go out for lunch together every day; I found something heroic in their maintenance of their own standards, irrespective of the temper of the times around them.

I experienced a strange kind of relief in seeing them after spending the morning among the crowds dressed as if their clothes—T-shirts and jeans or shorts—had spent the night in a crumpled pile on the floor at the end of the bed.

Porto—a crowd from all over Europe with a fair sprinkling of Americans—quite apart from the prevalence of self-mutilation by tattoo and piercing, was the complete absence of any sense of personal dignity. This is not the same as absence of ego, however; indeed, it is the very reverse. Someone with a sense of personal dignity has an idea of how others are likely to see him. Someone who has no such sense of dignity does not care what others think of him and perhaps is not even aware that he ought to care. In other words, he is a solipsist, except when he needs something from someone

No doubt it is largely because of my age, but in many places I feel almost as though we were successful barbarians who have taken over the ruins of a civilization that we have conquered.

—

Theodore Dalrymple on a recent trip to Portugal

#portugal #porto #tourist #t #Theodore Dalrymple #travelogue #writers #observations

[marryat92]

It is impossible to contemplate any steam-engine, without feeling wonder and admiration at the ingenuity of man; but this feeling is raised to a degree of awe when you look at a locomotive engine—there is such enormous power compressed into so small a space—I never can divest myself of the idea that it is possessed of vitality—that it is a living as well as a moving being—and that idea, joined with its immense power, conjures up in my mind that it is some spitting, fizzing, terrific demon, who, if he could escape control, would be ready and happy to drag us by thousands to destruction.

— Frederick Marryat, "Diary on the Continent" (Olla Podrida)

Inauguration du premier chemin de fer en Belgique or Départ de la Flèche le 5 mai 1835 by Jan Antoon Neuhuys, 1885. An artistic recreation of the new Belgian rail lines of 1835 that Marryat witnessed on his continental tour.

#frederick marryat #captain marryat #1830s #railways #train #age of steam #diary on the continent #belgium #jan antoon neuhuys #chemin de fer #olla podrida #travelogue #romantic era

[oursuperadventure]

Hiya! We're excited to announce that OUR SUPER JAPANESE ADVENTURE is now also available through our Cats & Snacks KS! (http://www.sarahgraley.com/cats)

OSJA is all about our trip to Japan earlier this year! It was our first visit and one that we'd been talking about for a long, long time! We're excited to share our journey in comic form with you! 🌸

Our Super Japanese Adventure is available as an add-on to all physical rewards, and it's available as a separate reward as well!

Thank you so much to everyone who helped us get to this stretch goal! We can't wait to bring these new books into the world!

#japan travel #our super adventure #book cover #cover reveal #comics #webcomic #travel comic #travelogue

[hang-on-lil-tomato]

#Rhys Darby #Africa #rwanda #travelogue #rhys montague darby #i want our darling Rhys to do more travelogues #he’s such a great presenter #yes I’ve seen Big in Japan #it’s marvelous #I love him so much #hope he gets to take the family #Youtube

[o-the-mts]

Book Review: The Secret History of Bigfoot by John O'Connor

Author: John O’Connor Title: The Secret History of Bigfoot Narrator: Matt Godfrey Publication Info: Tantor Media, 2024 Summary/Review: When my son was younger, he began an interest in cryptozoology by watching the cable TV show “Finding Bigfoot.”  The show was both entertaining and absurd, as they never actually found a Sasquatch despite the title.  I created my own conspiracy theory that the…

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#Audiobook #Bigfoot #Book Reviews #Books #Cryptids #Cryptozoology #Myth #Psychology #Sasquatch #Travelogue

[soujjwalsays]

It is not just a place but an emotion that every person wants to experience.

Kashmir/Kashyapamar

(Heaven on Earth)

Kashmir is the delicate reminder of the fact that poetry not always need pages and words. When the pages are torn and ink is faded, the living poetry can be felt through heartbeats and emotions

- Anonymous

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[meredithmcclaren]

Greece cont’d.

Island time.

#greece #santorini #travelogue #journal comic #travel journal #meredith mcclaren

[saramencken]

The Human League's Susan Ann Sulley and Joanne Catherall in the Limit

Via @screwloose1980

#travelogue #dare #reproduction #human league #sheffield

[longreads]

Fast Times On America’s Slowest Train 

“Nobody yelled at me for bringing my own water. And while the roomette was indeed small, I was allowed to walk freely about the length of this wondrous machine and escape every so often to breathe in new air from some new town, while discussing my grandmother’s burial place with a Viking. They even let us bring a case of beer and three bottles of wine. Try that on United.”

All aboard for a slow, fun, and boozy journey with Harrison Scott Key as he celebrates Amtrak. A new Longreads essay available to read now! 

#travel #travelogue #trains #bromance #amtrak #slow travel #longreads #writing #nonfiction

[thebeautifulbook]

THE LAND OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN: Summer and winter journeys through Sweden, Norway, Lapland, and northern Finland by Paul B. Du Chaillu. (New York: Harper, 1881). 2 Vols.

source [later edition]

#beautiful books #book blog #books books books #book cover #books #vintage books #victorian era #travelogue #sweden #norway #lappland #finland #etching

[shadandrews]

In the sea, in the sea, in the sea...

#art #travelogue