Tag: Forty-Two Places Tour
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Total Opulence Overwhelm
If you go to Harrods, leave yourself plenty of time to escape. Almost being late for your high tea appointment because you can’t find an exit from the gift shop may be the quintessential privileged problem, but the reality is that it is all too easy to cross the line from fun to overwhelm and…
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Douglas Adams Travel: A Lot of Left
Cars are tricky for non-Brits who only find them convenient if they can steer like Zaphod Beeblebrox, with the extra arm they recently had fitted.
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Douglas Adams Tour: The Nerd Big Three
OUTTAKES CONTINUED… This post is an outtake from my 2015 forty-two places Douglas Adams tour. I’m cutting a lot of 1st-person POV from the upcoming book, Forty-Two Places: A Douglas Adams Travel Guide. “Mark, Since this will be your first trip to England, is there anything you want to see?”“The Nerd Big Three: The Rosetta…
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Attacked by The Lizard
I wanted a picture, I wanted to get up close so I could ask my guide all about them…and the one step off the track, searching for an image, was a step in a very wrong direction.
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The Many Anniversaries of May (Bad and Good)
May 11th is the 20th anniversary of Douglas Adams’s death. By a highly improbable coincidence, it is also the 6th annual deathday of my father, Robert (Bob) Keller.
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Get Lost, Dirk.
I was not in a foreign country, on a once-in-a-lifetime-quest, to give in to doing things I was regularly tempted to do back home on any given Thursday. I would do only wildly foreign and exciting things. Like getting myself lost.