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Continue reading →: Parc Naturel des Deux Ourthes and Another BreweryFrom the hiking car park I was based at on Monday night there was a sign indicating that it was a 45 minute walk to a beer museum. I looked it up on the map and put together a circuit through various forests trails to make it a ten kilometre…
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Continue reading →: Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith
Ripley#2 – American Literature – published 1970 Tom Ripley, having escaped the Italian and American authorities in the first book, The Talented Mr. Ripley, is now 31, settled down and married to a wealthy French woman seems as amoral as he is. He is living an idle a life as…
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Continue reading →: A return to Ardennes, and another Brewery Trail beginsI found a really good place to stop for Saturday about 80 kilometres east of Frankfurt, in the state of Hessen. Ramholz Castle was first mentioned as a Manor House in 1167. In 1501 a new building, called the ‘Old Castle’ was constructed on the site by one of the…
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Continue reading →: The Monks of KreuzbergIt has been the mid-term holiday for schools in Bavaria this last week in Germany. I just met a family on the summit of Kreuzberg and the parents grabbed the chance for their two sons to practice their English, so we chatted for a while. The mid-term holiday varies between…
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Continue reading →: Teddy Perkins
Atlanta – an episode of an American TV Series (aired 2018) Teddy Perkins is the sixth episode of the second season of the American comedy drama series Atlanta. Atlanta was something I read really good reviews of last year. Since then I’ve watched season one, but only now, midway through…
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Continue reading →: Crypt of the Moon Spider by Nathan Ballingrud
Published 2024 – American Fiction – Horror Firstly, by way of explanation, though I read a lot of horror, I have little interest in the Lovecraftian sub-genre, which in this case is blended with steampunk subgenre of science fiction. Lovecraftian, or cosmic horror, usually explores the insignificance of human existence…
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Continue reading →: Saxony: Railways and RidgesFor the last few days I have been in Saxony at the eastern end of the Harz mountains. There is plenty of good hiking and mountain biking here, as well as snow sports in the winter, though they are really well used by visitors, as it is quite a populated…
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Continue reading →: Gabriel’s Moon by William Boyd
British Literature – Published 2024 The novel begins in 1960 with journalist / author Gabriel Dax flying back to England after picking up a scoop, by interviewing the Congolese Prime Minister when a series of strange coincidences begins; a woman on the plane is reading one of his books, his…
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Continue reading →: The Schwarzwassertal Nature Reserve and the Grüner GrabenI’m parked up for the weekend close to the summit of the Katzenstein mountain, which means cat rock, and is named so as the summit used to resemble a cat’s head. Thirty years ago though, after it was deemed to be in too precarious a state due to weathering and…
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I was so much older then…
Quote of the Week
Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, ‘What road do I take?’ The cat asked, ‘Where do you want to go?’ ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the cat, ‘it really doesn’t matter, does it?’
Lewis Carroll
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