Stories/Travels

The Book Tour Episode Twenty-Five (Final): An Author Looking for a Story 30.07.2024 11:05 ↓

On the last night of my book tour, I look for an interesting story and end up in a tricky situation

The Book Tour Episode Twenty-Four: Driving to the U.S.A. for Pizza with Michael "Crash" Caplan 26.06.2024 6:53 ↓

In the early 1960s there was no place to eat pizza in Toronto (as far as we knew). The closest was across the border, in the U.S.A., but that wasn't too far away for "Crash" Caplan, a youth known for wrecking cars in terrible accidents.

#2 Those Absent on the Great Hungarian Plain: Tarzan, Udo and the Russians 15.02.2024 9:55 ↓

#2 Those Absent on the Great Hungarian Plain: Tarzan, Udo and the Russians by Jill Culiner

#1 Those Absent on the Great Hungarian Plain: The Hungarian Count 14.02.2024 5:10 ↓

The Hungarian Count sells paintings in Toronto from the book Those Absent on the Great Hungarian Plain

The Book Tour Episode Twenty-Three: Romeo Invites Me To Breakfast 13.02.2024 13:55 ↓

The Book Tour, New York City, the Old Barrymore House, Romeo

The Book Tour Episode Twenty-Two: The Lady in the Green Hat 22.11.2023 12:03 ↓

People met while travelling by Greyhound bus across America on a book tour

The Book Tour Episode Twenty-One: SWAMI 11.10.2023 12:37 ↓

Traveling through the USA by Greyhound, Strange characters,

The Book Tour Episode Twenty: Those Met on Buses 18.06.2023 10:58 ↓

Travelling up from Florida: the people met on buses; ecology: the Old South; dreamers.

The Book Tour Episode Nineteen: Traveller's Blues 15.01.2023 11:10 ↓

The Book Tour Episode Nineteen: Traveller's Blues by Jill Culiner

The Book Tour Episode Eighteen: Panama City, Pelicans, and Jim Bikeman 07.11.2022 10:18 ↓

I travel to Panama City Florida and meet the famous Jim Bikeman

The Book Tour Episode Seventeen: Scotty 15.12.2021 12:40 ↓

Traveling by bus in the south: Mobile, Alabama to Florida

A Contrary Journey Chapter One: Paris 13.10.2021 9:29 ↓

The beginning of my journey to find Velvel Zbarzher Available from Claret Press Paperback https://payhip.com/b/o7M23 Ebook https://payhip.com/b/HmK5C Or https://boook.link/A-Contrary-Journey-with-Velvel-Zbarzher-Bard

A Contrary Journey with Velvel Zbarzher, Bard published by Claret Press 07.10.2021 15:42 ↓

Velvel Zbarzher, rebel, songster, and glittering star of fusty inns, spent his life singing his Enlightenment poems to loyal audiences of poor workers and craftsmen in Austrian-Galicia, Romania, Vienna and Istanbul. His attacks condemning the religious stronghold resulted in banishment and itinerancy, but for Velvel and the other like the other reformers of his time, the compensations were great:...

The Book Tour Episode Sixteen: On to Oklahoma 08.09.2021 9:41 ↓

Strange characters on the bus, Oklahoma's unsavoury history, the KKK, the Sooners, a breakfast invitation

The Book Tour Episode Fifteen: Along the Road 29.04.2021 13:13 ↓

Looking for the Perfect Setting and the Perfect Place to Live

The Book Tour Episode Fourteen: Looking for the Ideal Setting in Nevada 28.03.2021 12:58 ↓

I travel to Nevada to find the ideal place to set a story. Instead, I find Las Vegas, nuclear testing grounds, and assorted rubbish.

Finding Home in the Footsteps of the Jewish Fusgeyers 30.01.2021 29:46 ↓

The Romanian Fusgeyers were the Jews who walked out of their country. One hundred and thirty years later, I crossed Romania in their footsteps before continuing on along the former immigrant trail across Europe, then to the gold and silver mining towns of Canada.

The Book Tour Episode Thirteen: The ex-Husband 26.01.2021 12:10 ↓

A meeting with an ex thirty years later

The Book Tour Episode Twelve: Traveling with Mr. Bleany 22.11.2020 9:44 ↓

The ups and downs of book talks

The Book Tour Episode Eleven: A Love Story...of sorts... 26.10.2020 7:24 ↓

The greasy-haired man is on his way to meet his new love...a woman he has never seen...

The Book Tour Episode Ten: Along the Road 08.10.2020 9:50 ↓

In Episode Ten, as I travel through Montana, I meet Sherry and hear her story.

The Book Tour Episode Nine: Livingstone, Montana 17.09.2020 16:14 ↓

Livingstone Montana, then and now

The Book Tour Episode Eight: Travelling by Grehound— Grist for the Writer's Mill 08.08.2020 15:27 ↓

The rather strange people encountered on buses...

Book Tour Episode Seven: Mitigated Success and Unmitigated Failure in Winnipeg and Regina 17.07.2020 12:06 ↓

I travel on to Winnipeg and Regina to talk about my books but, as usual in my life, nothing goes as planned. Still, tomorrow is another day...

The Turkish Affair: Chapter One 10.07.2020 40:35 ↓

Priceless artifacts are disappearing from the ancient Hittite site of Karakuyu in Turkey, and the site director has vanished. Called in to solve the mystery, archaeologist Renaud Townsend is hindered by both his inability to speak the language and the knowledge that the local police are corrupt. His attraction to translator Anne Pierson is immediate, although he is troubled by her refusal to talk...