admin @ December 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
James Joyce said Zurich was so clean you could eat off the streets but he must never have walked up its alleys. It is a city for trams not tramps and after the three-kilometre walk uphill to the zoo and his grave I am sweating despite the cold. Crossing roads I get trapped on tram […]
admin @ September 19, 2008 # No Comment Yet
There are 1,200 trees in Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris. Underneath one of them were three pebbles, two used metro tickets and a frayed plastic flower, placed carefully on the marble slab of Samuel Beckett’s grave. Not far away the grave of John Paul Satre and Simone De Beauvoir was covered in hand-written notes, pebbles and more […]