Author Archives: jonathan trustram

in the Peloponnese 3, Vaidenitsa

Posted on June 28, 2016 by jonathan trustram

   Torridon Since last summer I’ve trampled bracken in a couple of new places, in Torridon and in the Peloponnese. By the shore of Loch Torridon Aran, a crofter (and our landlord) has burnt off the heather scrub and some … Continue reading →

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A letter to Virgin Trains

Posted on June 12, 2016 by jonathan trustram

This is a letter I’m planning to send to Virgin Trains. Would that be a good idea?  Every word is true, except the statement that I nearly wet myself on the way to the toilet. One little embellishment I allowed … Continue reading →

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Anavriti (in the Peloponnese again)

Posted on May 22, 2016 by jonathan trustram

    (My first visit to the village, in April) Anavriti lies at about 750 metres on the east side of the Taygetos mountains, which run north-south along the central of the three fingers of the southern Peloponnese. These sentences … Continue reading →

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in the Peloponnese

Posted on May 14, 2016 by jonathan trustram

This little picture shows the forest fires that burnt in the Peloponnese and near Athens in August 2007. Some of the plumes of smoke are a hundred miles long. I looked it up when I came back, after seeing miles … Continue reading →

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at Lamledra (2) – erosion

Posted on April 11, 2016 by jonathan trustram

see also! At Lamledra    lamledra 3   “In German lingers an old word, Ortsbewustung, designating the bewildering or wildering of a once-maintained, ordered, loved place. In English, bewilderment is a new term, traceable to about 1620. From its beginning it connoted … Continue reading →

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footnote to an easy climb

Posted on February 9, 2016 by jonathan trustram

two photos of a fabulous flower that I haven’t seen, so I got the images from the web. I was so close, or I thought I was. I’ll tell the story later. (http://www.actaplantarum.org/floraitaliae)   They say: ‘specie estremamente rara a … Continue reading →

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an easy climb to Crna Prst in July, 2014

Posted on February 7, 2016 by jonathan trustram

– made easier because I took a taxi from Stara Fuzina, beside the lake at Bohinj, up to the end of the road, just below the abandoned skiing station. I’m going to get some help to  put all this in … Continue reading →

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London Wall Place

Posted on January 17, 2016 by jonathan trustram

See what it says on the hoarding? BEYOND BUSINESS.  What could it be? A cathedral? World’s biggest boozer? A brothel? I’ll let you know in due course.

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Virgin

Posted on January 17, 2016 by jonathan trustram

Recently I came back to London from Stockport on the train, a Penguilino, geddit? – specially decorated for Christmas by a little girl who won the competition. Family fun is one aspect of Virgin’s presentation. More solemn is the locomotive … Continue reading →

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scum

Posted on January 9, 2016 by jonathan trustram

Shakespeare’s history plays. 1315. The middle of the Hundred Years War. Henry V, uneasy in his possession of the English throne, because his father killed Richard II to get it, has decided to assert once more an old family claim … Continue reading →

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