| From the Outback to the Arctic Circle A Fool's Alphabet |
| "travel is glamourous only in retrospect" (Paul Theroux) |
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| Last updated: Saturday, 26 January, 2003 |
| From A to Z "'I could have told you a completely different set of stories and you would have formed a completely different idea of me�,� he tells her by the time he reaches the destination �X�. ��I mean,� Pietro went on, �I told you about Laura, but I didn�t tell you about Gabriella, did I? I never told you about India or the week I spent in Rio.� I could have been lying, couldn�t I?� he said. �I could have made it all up. I haven�t, of course. But suppose I had told you different things. Even at the age of twenty-six I could have chosen different things. Would you have reached a different diagnosis?� ' I don�t believe in your paradoxical view of things. I could honestly have given you a different story, without lying, just by choosing different things, and you�d never have been any the wiser.� At last Dr Simon was provoked, though it was to laughter. �There is no grand pattern with neat, interlocking junctions, no one truth to a human personality,� she said. �Another version would have been just as good.�� A Fool's Alphabet by Sebastian Faulks |
| inside Ian's Website you will find... life is a real-time autobiography that grows as the years go by me is a name i call myself travel is from the outback to the arctic circle journalist is what i try to do but i can't hack it music is the food of love but you probably think i'm on a pretty poor diet books is what you should be reading and main index is where everything begins a bit like genesis |
| Flam, Norway July 1999 The train journey from Oslo to Bergen is said to be one of the most beautiful in the world and I wouldn�t argue with that. The line rises up from the country�s capital to the desolate mountains where snow lies across the track all year round. At the tiny village of Myrdal, Ed and I got off and took the tiny branch line which plummets 900 metres at an extremely steep gradient, twisting through pine forests and past waterfalls, down to the picture-postcard village of Flam. The meadows here are a brilliant green, contrasting with the grey mountains on three sides and the silvery fjord on the other. We camped in the midnight sun and left the next day, this time via the water, and continued our journey up into the Arctic Circle. |
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| Choose your place, either from A to Z or at random, there is no neat interlocking pattern... |
| 4 Angers 4 Bangkok 4 Childers 4 Denver 4 Exmouth 4 Flam 4 Germersheim 4 Honolulu 4 Istanbul 4 Jaipur 4 Krakow 4 Lebanon 4 Melaka |
| 4 New York 4 Oxford 4 Paris 4 Queenstown 4 Rotaroa 4 San Miguel 4 Thessalonika 4 Uig 4 Vancouver 4 Wittenoom 4 aiX-les-Bains 4 Yulara 4 Zermatt |
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