Last Friday we left the barge for the weekend (first time off the boat since March) and it was a great get-away. Bordeaux has got to be one the most pedestrian friendly cities we have ever visited, which makes it a pleasure to stroll through and explore. A perfect flaneur city. The large city centre. [...]
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Bordeaux
Posted in 2009 season, the urban traveller on September 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
typography on the streets of the ‘ville rose’
Posted in 2009 season, the urban traveller on July 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A week in Toulouse whirs by like a day. We moor at Port Saveur, a quiet port on the Midi with contemporary residential brick buildings. ‘Looking up, do you feel like we are in Yaletown a bit?’ I ask. ‘If the windows were bigger…they try to keep out the sun here as opposed to getting [...]
A Cafe Literati Top 5 High-five 2-day Guide to London
Posted in books/art, food & drink, the urban traveller on March 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
To say we are still recovering from our two days jaunting freely about London in Spring would be an understatement. We commenced with a carefully researched map in hand, we jumped on the underground to enjoy the fineries in the urban fare. Although we adored several places, if forced to pick our top 5, we [...]
London wandering
Posted in the urban traveller on March 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hello all. We are en-route to France and have just enjoyed a week in England with a few days in Coventry and the remainder in London. We wandered London’s streets which still have a look and feel like the map of the city above, although there are now bike lanes on the street. Also found [...]
fete de la musique
Posted in the urban traveller on July 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
back in what seems like ages past, during the shortest night of the year, we took the train from lagny into to paris for the fete de la musique. (which is a free all night live music party all over paris -and music of every single genre, no joke from organ recitals to deep house.)
we forgot [...]
tea in lagny
Posted in food & drink, the urban traveller on June 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
hello again all,
so this is us right now (tuesday 10 june 2008, 3:23 pm, which would make it really friggin’ early in bc) dianna and i have cycled 18 km in the sun to lagny. we’re here because there is an excellent “salon de the” with free wifi. we’re across the pedestrian main street sitting [...]
leaving paris
Posted in 2008 season, the urban traveller on June 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
linquenda “embedded” in the 11th arrondisment. this tunnel joins the villette basin to the bastille & seine. that’s Dee Dee and Marian up on the bow.
up in the 19th arrondisment
Posted in the urban traveller on June 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
hello all,
since last thursday linquenda has been moored in the basin de villette, up in the north-east corner of the city (no tourists here… except us).
it’s a great spot, there is always some kind of activity on the quai, yesterday a kids fair and flea market with live (and thankfully very good) music. across the street [...]
