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RAMBLANISTA: August 2013
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Friday, 30 August 2013. María Inés de la Cruz The Woodlanders (with apologies to the late Mr Thomas Hardy),. Virgin Black Lace 2004. The Carteresque landscape - full of erotic menace. In fact, it’s all Angela Carter and absolutely no E L James. The Chase is the perfect backdrop for indulging these daydreams, walking the perfect ritual to conjure up images of fecundity and desire; it’s not dissimilar to saying the Rosary; the rhythm of my booted feet like the cadence of a Hail Mary. 8216;Watch your back!
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RAMBLANISTA: June 2013
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Sunday, 23 June 2013. Can't see the love for the hate. Here's a confession that'd get me expelled from any gathering of psychogeographers and academics: I can't stand London. No, let me rephrase that. I hate London with a rage so intense it would shake the city to its foundations if I could tap its energy in seismic form. London doesn't just take itself far too seriously, it demands those who visit it do so too; insists they pay homage at its shrines. I've probably got it all wrong, spend too much time s...
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RAMBLANISTA: September 2013
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Friday, 6 September 2013. Going down The Keats Road. The Golden Triangle (Butleigh to the left). In my previous post, Fecundity and Desire. 8211; a flirtation with the concept of a sadomasochistic landscape - I began ruminating about To Autumn. Before admonishing myself. DON’T GO DOWN THE KEATS ROAD! I wrote in my notebook. But why ever not? Well both, as it happens, but not until I’d entered The Golden Triangle. My first port of call was obviously To Autumn. Season of mists . What on earth am I saying?
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RAMBLANISTA: January 2014
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Wednesday, 22 January 2014. And in the beginning was the walk, and the walk was made flesh. Biblical walking narratives: doncha just love ‘em! Adam and Eve taking their leave from the Garden of Eden, tales between legs and no longer, sadly, naked; Saul on the road to Damascus, struck down and temporarily blinded by a bolt of lightning; the Israelites and their flight from Egypt; Mary, Joseph and the Baby Jesus on the run from Herod. So many people on the run, not a good time to set out for a stroll.
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RAMBLANISTA: July 2013
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Thursday, 25 July 2013. Climbing Nerôche: Landscape Experience and Performative Writing (Part One). Part One: The Context. Nerôche from the pastures near Staple Fitzpaine. No matter where I am in south Somerset, Ner. Che seems always to loom on the horizon, a brooding presence. Much of the land is owned by the Forestry Commission and Crown Estate and is the focus of the. Nerôche Landscape Partnership Scheme. And the Liberating the Landscape. Project. These have been instrumental in restoring the H. Paul ...
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RAMBLANISTA: July 2014
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Monday, 14 July 2014. I can’t afford a ticket on an old Dakota Airplane. I gotta jump a ride on a cattle-trucking slow train. I guess it doesn’t matter. As long as I can get my head down in the sun. Ah, the Quo. The mighty, perennial Status Quo. Who, like poverty and prostitution, will surely be with us for all time, quite possibly until the day of judgement. Who’d have thought I’d have managed to insert the twelve bar heroes into another doctoral missive? 8211; I wasn’t in a hurry. Indeed....Takes you i...
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RAMBLANISTA: Trans Cantabrica - Day 0 to 2
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Wednesday, 24 June 2015. Trans Cantabrica - Day 0 to 2. DAY 0 - LONDON to IRUN. My baby takes the morning train' sang Sheena Easton in her 1980 hit, 'Nine to Five'. I'll hazard a guess that whoever Ms Eason's 'baby' was, he - or maybe, perhaps,. Didn't have to spend the night walking around St Pancras waiting for the 05:40 Eurostar to Paris. I feel I got to know the station's night-time declivities just a little too intimately. DAY 1: HONDARRIBA to DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIAN (27km). There is a potential flaw...
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RAMBLANISTA: February 2014
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Monday, 17 February 2014. From Here to Eternity: What happens when Geography and Theology get up close and personal. I remember my first volcano – don’t we all? As rites of passage go it’s up there with losing one’s virginity. It was the sultry Pacaya. Ascents but that wouldn’t be strictly true – the effort was rewarded with a moment of effervescent enchantment; shaking earth, the acrid scent of sulphur and a red-hot cauldron of bubbling lava so alluring I had to stop myself from jumping in&#...And becau...
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RAMBLANISTA: January 2015
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Monday, 19 January 2015. We walk the paths, the paths walk us - part the second. 8211; GR2 – Santa Maria del Collell – Banyoles: Tuesday 23. The whole walk: Besalu - El Torn - Santa Maria del Collel - Sant Miguel de Campmajor - San Marti de Campmajor - Estany de Banyoles - Banyoles. The GR2 from Besalu to El Torn. Catalunya in midwinter might offer blue skies, sunshine and ideal walking temperatures during the day but it can get a bit parky overnight, more so in Besalú, a charming but touristic honeytrap...
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