This site is all about how stories add spice to our ideas and feelings about the cities we love. My favourites have long been London, Venice, and Florence and so I made this site, where I tell of all sorts of tales set in these three cities. Each city has a few indulgent side pages too. To search within this site using Google, enter your search terms. Into the box as usual and then type in. Click here to send me an e-mail.

Songs Heard on Fast Trains. Another largely irrelevent personal blog, mostly featuring trains, music and musings on place. As my train lumbered across the junction and into the terminus platforms at Orpington station, I pondered the journey here. I should have been here a week ago, a long-planned and much anticipated weekend trip which combined a range of events and - for me at least - culminated in.

Logic Is The Enemy Of Reason! The complete works of the mysterious underground poet E. 1964, directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara. Some violence, depictions of racism and racist language, cruelty to animals, and general gloominess about the state of Occupied Japan. Take it away, Max. Criterion, again, in its Eclipse series. Which I have on my pile of to-watch-urgently films.

Writing the city in ruins. She never says a word. Not about how many scars are etched in her body and forever etched in her mind from the endless violence she endures daily within her own home. She never says how he beats her black and blue after she works ten hours a day. She never says that he does not spare her or even their three year old child in his uncontrollable rage. Why does a husband do that to his woman and child? What will I do? .