My last urban ramble/adventure was: Depending on whether you count the family excursion to Margate on the May Bank Holiday Weekend, or partner and myself going to Ally Pally and walking down the Nature Trail to Highgate the previous weekend. My next urban ramble/adventure will probably be: Couldn't really predict - may not happen until I'm in Madison for Wiscon, but a smallscale ramble around Bloomsbury or elsewhere in London is not outwith possibility. Favourite type(s) of urban environment: Have water somewhere - sea, river, lake, canals, ponds, fountains, cascades; and unexpected juxtapositions. Favourite ways to explore urban environment: On foot, by bus (but how few cities have doubledeckers to sit on the top of, which is perhaps the ne plus ultra for leisurely urban travel), and by water Favourite type(s) of constraint (for those who like putting constraints on their rambles): I quite like the purposive ramble a la Virginia Woolf's essay on the subject - setting out with some not-too urgent errand and following where it leads. Cities/towns I've explored (and how): UK: London, Edinburgh, Bath, Canterbury, Norwich, Coventry (if 'explore' includes 'desperately try to find somewhere to eat that isn't Pizza Hut, KFC or MacD'), York, numerous south coast resorts, Blackpool, Manchester, the Potteries Europe: Paris, Lyon, Dijon, Arles, Avignon, Toulon, Bandol, Nimes; Madrid, Barcelona, Granada, Malaga, Toledo, Segovia; Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Viana di Castelo; Munich, Hamburg, Berlin, Lubeck; Vienna, Salzburg; Budapest; Brussels, Bruges, Ghent; Amsterdam, The Hague, Leiden, Haarlem; Copenhagen, Kronborg; Oslo, Bergen; Stockholm, Uppsala; Rome, Florence, Venice, Prato, Naples, Amalfi, Capri (not exactly urban, but flanage-central), Bari, Lecce, Matera, Alberobella, Ostuni, Verona, Padua, Sirmione; Athens, Napflio, Mykonos Town, Paros Town, Sifnos Town and also Kastro on Sifnos, Skiathos, Skopelos, Skyros, Thera (and do ruins count?) Asia: Kabul, Herat, Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Karachi, Delhi, Singapore Australasia: Sydney, Brisbane, Cairns, Melbourne, Adelaide, Christchurch, Akaroa, Greymouth North America: New York, Boston/Cambridge, Northampton, Chicago, Washington DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Madison, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Claremont, Urbana-Champaign (not really a flaneur's conurbation, but I tried), Hamilton (0N), Halifax (NS) Cities/towns I want to explore (and why): What I like is finding myself somewhere for some reason (conference, research, etc) and exploring. Three things I tend to notice when I'm wandering through a city: Bookshops. Fountains. Weird or incongruous things. Anything else relevant: So much of London still to explore!
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My next urban ramble/adventure will probably be: Couldn't really predict - may not happen until I'm in Madison for Wiscon, but a smallscale ramble around Bloomsbury or elsewhere in London is not outwith possibility.
Favourite type(s) of urban environment: Have water somewhere - sea, river, lake, canals, ponds, fountains, cascades; and unexpected juxtapositions.
Favourite ways to explore urban environment: On foot, by bus (but how few cities have doubledeckers to sit on the top of, which is perhaps the ne plus ultra for leisurely urban travel), and by water
Favourite type(s) of constraint (for those who like putting constraints on their rambles): I quite like the purposive ramble a la Virginia Woolf's essay on the subject - setting out with some not-too urgent errand and following where it leads.
Cities/towns I've explored (and how): UK: London, Edinburgh, Bath, Canterbury, Norwich, Coventry (if 'explore' includes 'desperately try to find somewhere to eat that isn't Pizza Hut, KFC or MacD'), York, numerous south coast resorts, Blackpool, Manchester, the Potteries
Europe: Paris, Lyon, Dijon, Arles, Avignon, Toulon, Bandol, Nimes; Madrid, Barcelona, Granada, Malaga, Toledo, Segovia; Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Viana di Castelo; Munich, Hamburg, Berlin, Lubeck; Vienna, Salzburg; Budapest; Brussels, Bruges, Ghent; Amsterdam, The Hague, Leiden, Haarlem; Copenhagen, Kronborg; Oslo, Bergen; Stockholm, Uppsala; Rome, Florence, Venice, Prato, Naples, Amalfi, Capri (not exactly urban, but flanage-central), Bari, Lecce, Matera, Alberobella, Ostuni, Verona, Padua, Sirmione; Athens, Napflio, Mykonos Town, Paros Town, Sifnos Town and also Kastro on Sifnos, Skiathos, Skopelos, Skyros, Thera (and do ruins count?)
Asia: Kabul, Herat, Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Karachi, Delhi, Singapore
Australasia: Sydney, Brisbane, Cairns, Melbourne, Adelaide, Christchurch, Akaroa, Greymouth
North America: New York, Boston/Cambridge, Northampton, Chicago, Washington DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Madison, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Claremont, Urbana-Champaign (not really a flaneur's conurbation, but I tried), Hamilton (0N), Halifax (NS)
Cities/towns I want to explore (and why): What I like is finding myself somewhere for some reason (conference, research, etc) and exploring.
Three things I tend to notice when I'm wandering through a city: Bookshops. Fountains. Weird or incongruous things.
Anything else relevant: So much of London still to explore!