Well, yesterday provided the perfect excuse to travel with books. My friends were off around the world and I thought it necessary to weight them down with words. I am not sure how auspicious they thought a copy of the Odyssey translated by T. E. Lawrence was but they smiled cheerfully. The caught the theme quite easily when to that was added Travels with a Tangerine (one of my favourite books that I have read all year), Journey to the Centre of the Earth (something I rather hope they DON'T do) and Fugitive Pieces.
Having invested in these books for other people, for myself, it was more visual travelling than literary travelling as I went off to the Byzantium exhibition in London. Three and a half hours later I emerged better educated and still thrilled with Byzantine icons, though less thrilled with the range of postcards the Academy had to offer. Why oh why do museums always choose the least enticing things in the exhibition to make postcards of? Virtually none of the sumptuous display of icons was available. Today it is time travelling that I am setting off upon - we shall see how the British museum's Hadrian exhibition compares.
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