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day 2.4 – out of England
Welcome to Travels With Greg, my memoir of a six-week documentary trip through Europe in Autumn 2004. In the last installment, I bought some books. Now I’m waiting for my connecting flight. The action, it does not stop. If you’re new to my site, please visit the Table of Contents.
I settled in across from Greg in the [...]
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Welcome to Travels With Greg, the slow dribble that passes for a memoir of my six-week documentary shoot through Europe in Autumn 2004. In our last installment, sleep deprivation prompted a senseless overseas call. Join me as I buy some books. Yessss. If you’re new to the site, please visit the Table of Contents.
The embarrassing [...]
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travels with greg – day 2.2
Welcome to Travels With Greg, my slowly unfolding story of a six-week documentary shoot through Europe in 2004. In my last entry, Greg and I had landed at Heathrow. Now, sleep-deprived and unwilling, I need to find Customs in Terminal 4. God help me. If this site is new territory for [...]
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travels with greg – day 2.1
Ahoy. You are reading Travels With Greg, the story of my six-week documentary shoot through Europe in the fall of 2004. Join us as we enter Inner Airport World at Heathrow. If you’re new to the TWG experience, you can visit the Table of Contents and get all nice and caught up.
After taking us on a nice slow tour [...]
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travels with greg – day 2
Holy crap, people? Could it be that I’m out of the country, at long finally last? Yes it could! It’s a shorty but a goody as I tell you all about the experience of sitting on a plane and eating a vegan breakfast on an international Air Canada flight. If you’re just catching up now, [...]
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travels with Greg – day 1.4
This is the fifth part of Travels With Greg, the story of my six-week documentary shoot through six countries in Western Europe. Join us as I write yet another entry that does not take us out of the country.
If you want to start from the start (the better to get a piece of my [...]
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travels with greg – day 1.3
I say ‘Ola’ to you because this is my grown-up and entirely desperate version of Dora the Explorer. This is the fourth entry in the ongoing story of my six-week documentary shoot through Europe in the autumn of 2004. Four entries in and I still haven’t left – I haven’t even boarded the [...]
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travels with greg – day 1.2
This is the third part of Travels with Greg, the story of a six-week documentary shoot in Europe in the fall of 2004. You can read parts 1 and 2 here and here.
At eight in the morning the offices were usually empty, with the exception of a couple of editors finishing the graveyard [...]
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travels with greg, day 1.1
This is Part Two of Travels With Greg. You can read Part One here.
THE ITINERARY
Week 1 – The Netherlands
horrible disaster discussed: the North Sea Flood
plus: Bruno the klompenböer; the longest bicycle in the world; the biggest field hockey stick ever
Week 2 – south of France
horrible disaster discussed: the Malpasset Dam Failure
plus: no santons
Week 3 [...]
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travels with greg – day 0
This is the first of a series of day-by-day entries on my six-week documentary shoot through Western Europe in 2004. Warning: there was no sex on this trip, unless you’re counting the highly audible Dutch couple in the adjacent room. Up until then I never realized that inarticulate grunts and cries were delivered [...]
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