Ceridwen E McKenna is your time traveling tour guide, reading from historic travel narratives before flight shrunk the world. From medieval times to the last century, experience travel through vintage eyes through your modern ears. 20 minute episodes include whole serialized books and travel journals (in public domain) and may include short personal stories, excerpts of newer publications or occasional interviews. Books that capture the imagination of faraway places jostle against our ears in both literature style and old-world references that may seem quite strange. How places have changed over time, and what people find important in different eras fascinates and delights the senses like a slow, rainy afternoon in a treasured bookstore. Snuggle in and be transported through time and space.
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Ceridwen E McKenna is your time traveling tour guide, reading from historic travel narratives before flight shrunk the world. From medieval times to the last century, experience travel through vintage eyes through your modern ears. 20 minute episodes include whole serialized books and travel journals (in public domain) and may include short personal stories, excerpts of newer publications or occasional interviews. Books that capture the imagination of faraway places jostle against our ears in both literature style and old-world references that may seem quite strange. How places have changed over time, and what people find important in different eras fascinates and delights the senses like a slow, rainy afternoon in a treasured bookstore. Snuggle in and be transported through time and space.
Episode 12: Ep. 10 Come With Me-Holland-Dordrecht-Zeeland-Friesland
Then & There - a vintage travel podcast
29 minutes
3 years ago
Episode 12: Ep. 10 Come With Me-Holland-Dordrecht-Zeeland-Friesland
In our final quick trip around the Netherlands, "Come With Me" author Schoonmaker breezes through much of South Holland, Zeeland and Friesland provinces. He gives us his definitive recommendations about what to see with comparative amounts of time, and even 'disses' a couple of towns and makes a typically misogynistic observation or two. Opinions given are not my own--this was 1928, and he was an art/architecture snob after all. [That opinion is mine.] A small excerpt finishes this episode from a surprise book. It's Mies Bouhuys' collection of black & white photographs, titled simply "Holland", 1971. The book was found on the sidewalk in a box, but is too moldy to share at length, and it also is probably not in the public domain. I remember seeing such books, written in three languages, only in Europe, before Taschen books were popular. As always, apologies for my accent in pronouncing Dutch and French names.
Then & There - a vintage travel podcast
Ceridwen E McKenna is your time traveling tour guide, reading from historic travel narratives before flight shrunk the world. From medieval times to the last century, experience travel through vintage eyes through your modern ears. 20 minute episodes include whole serialized books and travel journals (in public domain) and may include short personal stories, excerpts of newer publications or occasional interviews. Books that capture the imagination of faraway places jostle against our ears in both literature style and old-world references that may seem quite strange. How places have changed over time, and what people find important in different eras fascinates and delights the senses like a slow, rainy afternoon in a treasured bookstore. Snuggle in and be transported through time and space.
