Canada travel stories

Montréal/Princeton, 17 - 28 November 1996 (part I)

Sunday A girl at the bus station, wanting to go to Cambridge, holding a ticket to London, tries to board the Heathrow bus. I wrote a sonnet on the bus, typed it at Heathrow, polished it on the pl...

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Montréal and Pisa, June 1996 (part VI)

Wednesday 17/07/96, 0740 My talk this morning, the morning after the conference dinner (but not first, Laci has taken that job on himself). The hills at the far end of the valley are already hazy...

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Montréal and Pisa, June 1996 (part V)

Sunday 14/07/96, 0945 (BST) Back in Heathrow after a quite uneventful flight. I did manage to sleep for a few hours: after eating a very dried-up piece of chicken, I put on my eyeshades and went t...

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Montréal and Pisa, June 1996 (part IV)

Tuesday 09/07/96, 1325 Gut in a very bad state still, though not as bad as yesterday. I hope it is well enough for the dinner tomorrow. I have paid my money in the hope that the fates are on my si...

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Montréal and Pisa, June 1996 (part III)

Sunday 07/07/96, 1225 I set off on the Metro for Henri-Bourassa, to see the branch of the river separating Montréal from Laval. But when I got to Jean-Talon, I found that that branch of the Metro...

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