Departures and Arrivals

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Eric Newby. Departures and Arrivals

ERIC NEWBY. Departures and Arrivals

Dedication

Contents

Introduction

Up to Ther Bend and Back

Travels with a Baby

Days and Nights on the Orient Express

Under the Crust of Coober Pedy

Walking the Plank

Follies and Grottoes

Journey through Syria

The Palio

Seeing the World on Two Wheels

Some Canals

The Land of the Camels

The Land of the Elephants

Two Degrees West

In Calabria

Way Out in Anatolia

Winter in Beijing

The Yemen

A Brief Trip to the Pontine Archipelago

Below the Purbeck Hills

Plates

Index

About the Author

Also by the Author

Copyright

About the Publisher

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To Wanda with love

Title Page

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Here, on the opposite side of Castelnau to the church, were the premises of Boon and Porter, motor-car salesmen. The most memorable feature of Boon and Porter was an enormous advertisement for French Amilcars painted on a brick wall a couple of storeys high. It showed them roaring round a steep bank, driven by what looked like Michelin Men.

As we approached Ther Bend the houses became progressively finer, the best of all beginning at Ther Bend itself. They were semi-detached brick and stucco residences known as Castelnau Villas, built in 1842, the earliest early Victorian, with coach houses to match, and shaded by noble trees. Even to my five-year-old mind the Villas made the Mansions and the Gardens look a bit feeble – the epitome of an elegance that has rarely been repeated.

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