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Blue River, Black Sea, by Andrew Eames |
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 Andrew Eames' latest book Blue River, Black Sea was published by Bantam Press on 26 March (£14.99) and is an entertaining and informative account of a journey by bicycle and barge, on foot and horseback, along the Danube, which flows through more countries than any other river on earth.
‘I hadn’t appreciate the river was so massively long,’ admits Andrew. ‘I had no idea what happened to it after Budapest where it was still only a third of the way into its journey to the Black Sea. This was plainly the longest river on the European mainland, effectively Europe’s Amazon.
‘For much of the 20th century, most of the river had been coiled away behind the Iron Curtain where we couldn’t visit it, but now there was no excuse. To me, the river became both the symbol of my personal ignorance and of the reunification of the continent which is now approaching its 20th anniversary as an undivided whole. It made a great cue for a journey.’
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"If you have Franz Ferdinand on your iPod, then your heart is already dancing to the beat of Scotland’s most vibrant city. For a darker side of Glasgow, listen to the Cinematics’ Strange Education, the music of evil break-ups and rainy afternoons. But even heartbroken, under an umbrella, doomed lovers will sense that Glasgow is the heartbeat of British music, with an equally dynamic arts and design scene. Time for mindless music by Simple Minds over a cup of Lipton’s, a brand created by the tone-deaf Glaswegian tea baron, Sir Thomas Lipton."
© Lisa Gerard-Sharp, Glasgow's City Soundtrack, Vogue, 2008 |
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