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A-Z TRavel Snapshots: AACHEN to AVEIRO
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Monday, 16 March 2009. When I saw the road sign – Achen/Aix-La-Chapelle – I immediately wanted to pull off the motorway and go in search of Charlemagne’s city. But it was dark, it was late, and I was on my way somewhere else. For so long it was a forbidden place, just a purple stripe, like dawn on the horizon, seen on the ferry from Italy to Greece. Ismail Kadare is one of my favourite writers: a paragraph about a boy smoking his first cigar in Chronicle in Stone. Here, for the first time, I learned you ...
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A–Z Travel Snapshots [E]: EAST TIMOR to EVIA
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A–Z Travel Snapshots [E]. Monday, 21 December 2009. EAST TIMOR to EVIA. I imagined a green land of dense forest where guerrillas hid, but a woman who has just come back from filming the “cetacean soup” of whales and dolphins that gathers in a global hotspot beside the island tells me it is dry and dusty and has never recovered from the vicious occupation. Christ stopped here. We kept driving. It looked like a sorry southern Italian industrial town. No other Greek site gives such a good idea about day-to-...
