Comments on: Today… http://mikesowden.org/feveredmutterings/today#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=today I Came, I Saw, I Suffered Immensely Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:16:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mikeachim http://mikesowden.org/feveredmutterings/today#comment-528 Mikeachim Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:14:08 +0000 http://www.mikesowden.org/feveredmutterings/?p=594#comment-528 <b>Real York, check. I still don't know what that is, or where it is. You're right - I need to look a bit harder. ;) Fact is, I'm in one of the most densely-historical cities in the UK and hardly write about it while spending my time banging on about how I'm becoming a travel-writer. There's a Monty Python sketch there, I reckon. Your planning is spectacular, and definitely paid off. (Except, well, maybe not so much in dollars. Hurrm). Do you generally feel in the right place at the right time? Or do you still hear the call of for'n parts, as you did before you moved to Italy?</b> Real York, check. I still don’t know what that is, or where it is. You’re right – I need to look a bit harder. ;) Fact is, I’m in one of the most densely-historical cities in the UK and hardly write about it while spending my time banging on about how I’m becoming a travel-writer. There’s a Monty Python sketch there, I reckon.

Your planning is spectacular, and definitely paid off.

(Except, well, maybe not so much in dollars. Hurrm).

Do you generally feel in the right place at the right time? Or do you still hear the call of for’n parts, as you did before you moved to Italy?

]]> By: JudithinUmbria http://mikesowden.org/feveredmutterings/today#comment-526 JudithinUmbria Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:08:19 +0000 http://www.mikesowden.org/feveredmutterings/?p=594#comment-526 Well, people need to know about the "real York" as well. OTH, being here was no accident. It took me 27 years of planning and saving and filling in the blanks to come here just in time for the dollar to slide into the Mariannas Trough. Well, people need to know about the “real York” as well. OTH, being here was no accident. It took me 27 years of planning and saving and filling in the blanks to come here just in time for the dollar to slide into the Mariannas Trough.

]]> By: Mikeachim http://mikesowden.org/feveredmutterings/today#comment-522 Mikeachim Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:58:43 +0000 http://www.mikesowden.org/feveredmutterings/?p=594#comment-522 <b>And I'm happy to be "proved" (if you can prove opposing opinions) wrong. But I should add this isn't just me - I'm not the only one that is an anti-Heraklionist. eg. "The modern city has been disfigured by a lack of any comprehensive planning or any serious commitment to preservation, which has resulted in a traffic-choked urban horror overlaying historical remains of potentially immense interest, but the knowledgeable visitor will still be able to trace the past under the ugly urban sprawl of the present." - http://wikitravel.org/en/Heraklion (Goes a little far for my taste, but that's the essence of my opinion, yup).</b> And I’m happy to be “proved” (if you can prove opposing opinions) wrong. But I should add this isn’t just me – I’m not the only one that is an anti-Heraklionist.

eg.

“The modern city has been disfigured by a lack of any comprehensive planning or any serious commitment to preservation, which has resulted in a traffic-choked urban horror overlaying historical remains of potentially immense interest, but the knowledgeable visitor will still be able to trace the past under the ugly urban sprawl of the present.”

- http://wikitravel.org/en/Heraklion

(Goes a little far for my taste, but that’s the essence of my opinion, yup).

]]> By: Mikeachim http://mikesowden.org/feveredmutterings/today#comment-521 Mikeachim Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:30:40 +0000 http://www.mikesowden.org/feveredmutterings/?p=594#comment-521 <b>Superb. We disagree fundamentally. That is, if you're not just playing devil's advocate... Iraklion: Interesting history, interesting fortress, interesting port, interesting walls. Scabbed over with shabby decrepit shop fronts, noisy in that special way inner Manchester is, modern in the bad way (not the Athens way, which is unapologetically raucous and multicolored and chaotic) - modern in the way that its character is being erased by neglect. Cannot agree it's "Real Greece", in the sense you mean. Real Greece can be found in villages and up in the hills. It can be found on the back of a moped, or on foot. (I don't reckon you can fly or catch a catamaran ferry to it). (Real Greece isn't picture-postcard except by accident. Real Greece is too-strong coffee at 3am, clouds of cigarette smoke and an old man mopping olive oil with a piece of bread while his dog looks on hopefully). Your turn. Explain yourself. :)</b> Superb. We disagree fundamentally. That is, if you’re not just playing devil’s advocate…

Iraklion: Interesting history, interesting fortress, interesting port, interesting walls. Scabbed over with shabby decrepit shop fronts, noisy in that special way inner Manchester is, modern in the bad way (not the Athens way, which is unapologetically raucous and multicolored and chaotic) – modern in the way that its character is being erased by neglect.

Cannot agree it’s “Real Greece”, in the sense you mean. Real Greece can be found in villages and up in the hills. It can be found on the back of a moped, or on foot. (I don’t reckon you can fly or catch a catamaran ferry to it). (Real Greece isn’t picture-postcard except by accident. Real Greece is too-strong coffee at 3am, clouds of cigarette smoke and an old man mopping olive oil with a piece of bread while his dog looks on hopefully).

Your turn. Explain yourself. :)

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