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Today's Mosey
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Richard Thompson and Sara Genn are two young Canadians who remotely published this European
travelogue while on the road with their 1978 Alfa Romeo Alfetta. Mosey features over 2000
photographs, original paintings and drawings and twelve months of daily journal
entries. |
| "...The writing is serene, rendering images
of places in the reader's mind, but the paintings, sketches, and photos which accompany
the text are the real prize ..." Netsurfer
Digest, June 24, 1999 |
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United Kingdom
Spend a night in a London Emergency room, roam England's largest Romantic cemetery,
take a train through the Devon countryside, walk a country road in search of Newton
Poppleford, meet a Porsche-racing, dog-rearing mechanic, find out why the most perfect
castle in Britain was never finished, sit down to a proper Welsh breakfast and discover
where to find the most-bombed hotel in the world. |
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Ireland
Drive an antique Italian sportscar to the edge of nowhere, reflect in a 1200
year-old dry-stone oratory, stand in the shadow of a crumbling 15th century castle, learn
the fine art of peat-fire building, try publishing at the end of the telecommunications
highway, examine a 2000 year-old stone fort, spot a Leprechaun on the Ring of Kerry, stalk
puffins on the Skellig Islands, follow a rainbow around Ireland’s second highest
mountain and discover why a Waterford glass cutter gets paid by the piece. |
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Western France
Live in a French stable, climb atop the 3-kilometre Dune du Pilat, sample pastries
from a Biarritz chocolatier, sit on a World War II bunker at the Cote d’Argent,
contemplate five galleries and the painted dome of a Basque church, hike with wild Pottock
Ponies in the Pyrenees, take a sip of Bordeaux, follow medieval ramparts and step into a
cave at St-Emillion, stand in a natural rock amphitheater in front of Europe’s
longest waterfall and experience the Miracle of Lourdes. |
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Spain
Discover why the road falls into the sea at Zarautz in Spain’s Basque country,
stand before Picasso’s Guernica, celebrate New Year’s Eve eating grapes in
Madrid, pick an orange in a garden in Carmona, stay at a 17th century ecclesiastical
retreat, catalogue a few thousand cacti, drive around the world’s largest open cast
mine, sip Anise in a café in a Pueblo Blanco, visit the cradle of bullfighting and
examine a bloody matador’s costume, come face to face with sharks on the Costa de la
Luz, navigate prehistoric caves, watch dive-bombing swallows from a cliff-hanger house and
go wild on the Costa Brava. |
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Seville, Spain
Learn to feast in the middle of the day, sing Flamenco with gypsies in a tiny bar,
salvage azulejos from demolition, sleep in a 19th century Music Conservatory, watch
Kingfishers from a bird blind in 75,000 hectares of protected wetlands, visit the most
sensual piece of architecture in the world, fly a kite on the southern tip of Andalusia,
hike through an olive grove, roam the streets of an intact Roman city, join a midnight
procession with thousands of costumed Sevillanos and a 2000-kg float bearing an effigy of
Christ, browse an antique market and swallow whole fried fish on the banks of the
Guadalquivir. |
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Morocco
Follow the Beat Generation’s literary trail, bargain hard with the best of the
Meknes Berber carpet salesmen, visit with baby Barbary Apes in the cedar forests of the
Middle Atlas Mountains, pour sweat with the locals on a rural bus to Azrou, check the
accommodations of a 14th century theological college, breed cats in Fez, refuse
hard-boiled eggs from a bus station vendor, take medical advice from a Spanish Fly
wielding Berber pharmacist, slurp mint tea and cous cous among watchful hosts and
learn why having more than one wife can be more trouble than it’s worth. |
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Portugal
Find out if the world is round, go to the end of the world and find the most
pristine of hidden beaches, mosey through the Algarve in search of a cool breeze, taste an
authentic Bavarian Apfelkuchen in the southwest corner of Europe, bob in the Atlantic amid
10,000 hectares of protected mountains and coastline, devour a whole chicken roasted on a
spit (or just watch)in the heart of Lisbon, study the art of stone quilt-making, and
two-hundred years of polishing by foot. |
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France
Get naked at Europe’s largest naturalist colony, comb the craggy castles of
the Cathars in Roussillon, cross the highest bridge the Romans every built, follow
Provence’s lavender roads, devour baguettes slathered with perfumed honey, watch
gliders from the 1800-metre Plateau de Glandasse, stalk the Alpine Ibex in the Vercors,
ride a bubble in Grenoble, catch a chill in the Chartreuse, picnic among vineyards in
Burgundy, stay healthy in an intact medieval hospital in Beaune and taste the simple life
at France’s oldest surviving Cistercian monastery. |
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Switzerland
Discover what lies under the moguls at 2500 metres, get up close and personal with
a chocolate machine, snuggle up in an empty ski resort, stand face to face with Mont
Blanc, hype up on Ovalmaltine, get car tips from a Fiat mechanic and tour the Alps like
it’s 1907. |
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Guest Writers
Blow bubbles in central Namibia, walk the streets of Paris with a Canadian
poet, drive from Land's End to John O'Groats in a 1938 Austin "7", follow
the path of Robert Louis Stevenson through the Cevennes, witness the explosion of a
rock in Kuwait and carry your Rolleiflex to the birthplace of civilization. |
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