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"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats."
Howard Aiken
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Bradt Guide to Estonia, by Neil Taylor |
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 The sixth edition of Neil Taylor’s Bradt Travel Guide to Estonia has got fatter with each edition as, Neil insists, he has too. He certainly feels their relationship is now almost human.
‘Sometimes I am absorbed by it, sometimes I hate it, but the bond is never broken,’ he reveals. ‘I like being surprised on every tour. This time I found out about an American President who before standing for office had walked around the Tallinn City Wall in 45 minutes. I also found a museum ceiling completely covered with portraits of Miss Estonia.
‘I have to admit I am one of the luckiest of the Bradt authors in that the terrain I cover has a mild climate, is flat, and enjoys an excellent bus service and has become economically so respectable that it will probably join the Euro in 2010.
‘A former President was famous for saying how relieved he was that the country was now boring. Fortunately he meant this just in a political sense. He was not talking about the architecture, the coastal scenery or the vivid modern art, otherwise I and Bradt would have had no role there!’
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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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