The Atlas

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‘There is a Nation, wherever we go,
with places to talk about, and people to know.’
– Jack Hues (Wang Chung)

WHERE I’VE BEEN

50 YEARS OF TRAVELLING: OVER 160 CITIES, OVER 60 COUNTRIES, OVER 100 FLIGHTS

*The Atlas is a work in progress, please bear with me while I gradually renew some of the older content.

ALBANIA
Place: Durres, Shkoder, Tirana

ANDORRA
Place: Andorra

ARMENIA
Place: Yerevan

AUSTRIA
Place: Vienna
See also Voyage of Nomad book.

AUSTRALIA
Place: Brisbane, Bundaberg, Gold Coast (Coolangatta/Tweed Heads and Surfers Paradise at the time), Melbourne, Sydney (all pre-blog).

Culture: ICEHOUSE Spinning the Big Wheel, Over the Line (ICEHOUSE Bsides), RE:COVERED – Australian Music Design, Aussie Music Month/Fave Aussie Songs

Music: Boom Crash Opera, Darren Hayes, ICEHOUSE, INXS, Pseudo Echo

BELGIUM
Place: Bruges, Brussels

BOSNIA
Place: Sarajevo

BULGARIA
Place: Sofia

CAMBODIA
Place: Phnom Penh

CHINA
Place: Beijing, Changsha, Chenzhou, Dongguan, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Huizhou, Kunming, Nanning, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Xiamen (external link)(For those not highlighted, see the HOUSE OF MANY FACES book).

Culture: China – Frustrations and Fascinations, Five Years in a Kingdom of Red, Guangzhou Opera House – After Zaha, In Search of Old Baiyun, Metro Museum, Playing Boule with the Chinese, The Through Train, Transport to the Max! Xiaozhou Art Village

CROATIA
Place: Zagreb

CZECH REPUBLIC (now CZECHIA)
Place: Prague (pre-blog but covered in the Nomad book).

DENMARK
Place: Copenhagen (pre-blog)

EGYPT
Place: Cairo

ENGLAND
Place: Bath, Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Cambridge, Canterbury, Cheltenham, Chester, Exeter, Gloucester, Hereford, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Oxford, Portsmouth, Reading, Salisbury, Sheffield, Southampton, Swindon (most pre-blog but some covered in the Nomad book and Oxford in the Year Amid Winter book, you can buy both here).

Culture: Bomberg at the National, Brian Eno’s Diary (book review), Culture Under Attack! In Search of Croydon, Is Tradition Killing the UK? Jack Hues (Wang Chung singer talks about his career in music), Martyn Ware Electronically Yours (book review), Mike Roberts How Art Made Pop (book review), No-Man Housekeeping (early years box set review), No-Man Love You to Bits (album review), No-Man Urban Disco (the London songs), QUEEN (Hot Space), Steven Wilson Limited Edition of One (book review), Dylan Jones’ Sweet Dreams (book review), Yuka Fujii Like Planets (exhibition), World Post Bowie (eulogy from other artists).

Music: Brian Eno, David Sylvian, Duran Duran, John Foxx – UPDATE IN PROGRESS, Mark Hollis (eulogy), Steve Hogarth, Steve Jansen, SUEDE, Tears for Fears, Tim Bowness, Wang Chung

ESTONIA
Place: Tallinn

FINLAND
Place: Helsinki

Culture: The Nordic Theory of Everything

FRANCE
Place: Biarritz, Cherbourg, Lyon, Menton, Nice, Paris, Villefranche-sur-Mer (see Nomad book for Nice, Paris and V-s-M).

Culture/Music: 50 Years of Planet Jarre – IN PROGRESS

GEORGIA
Place: Batumi, Tbilisi

Culture: Dining with Russians

GERMANY
Place: Berlin, Frankfurt

Music: Alphaville, Claudia Brücken – IN PROGRESS

GIBRALTAR
Place: Gibraltar

GREECE
Place: Athens, Thessaloniki

Culture: In Search of Hellinikon

HONG KONG (now part of CHINA)
Place: Hong Kong

Culture: Hodgkin in Hong Kong (exhibition), In Search of Kai Tak, Railway Museum

HUNGARY
Place: Budapest

IRELAND
Place: Cork, Dublin, Galway, Sligo (all pre-blog but featured in Voyage of Nomad)

Culture: Songs of Faith and Devotion (Perry album review), Surrender (Bono book review)

Music: Perry Blake

ISLE OF MAN
Place: Douglas (postponed)

ITALY
Place: Florence, Pompeii, Rimini, Rome – IN PROGRESS, Sorrento, Trieste, Venice (see Nomad book)

Culture: Nomad Italia

JAPAN
Place: –

Music: Ryuichi Sakamoto – IN PROGRESS

KOSOVO
Place: Pristina

LATVIA
Place: Riga

LIECHTENSTEIN
Place: Vaduz (no blog)

LITHUANIA
Place: Vilnius

LUXEMBOURG
Place: Luxembourg

MACAO (now part of CHINA)
Place: Macao City (no blog)

MACEDONIA (now NORTH MACEDONIA)
Place: Skopje

MALAYSIA
Place: Kuala Lumpur (pre-blog)

MALTA
Place: Malta (Gzira, Luqa, Mdina, Pembroke, Sliema, St Julians, Qawra, Qormi, Valletta)

MOLDOVA
Place: Chisinau

MONACO
Place: Monaco (pre-blog but covered in Nomad)

MONTENEGRO
Place: Podgorica

MOROCCO
Place: Casablanca, Marrakesh – IN PROGRESS, Rabat – IN PROGRESS, Tangier – IN PROGRESS

NETHERLANDS
Place: Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague (all pre-blog but Amsterdam covered in Nomad)

NEW ZEALAND
Place: Auckland, Gisborne, Napier, Nelson, Palmeston North, Queenstown, Rotorua, Wanganui, Wellington (most of these were in my youth so obviously pre-blog). See also Year Amid Winter for extensive writing on Auckland.

Culture: RE:COVERED – New Zealand Music Design

Music: Strawpeople

NORWAY
Place: –

Music: A-ha, Subshine

PHILIPPINES
Place: Manila

Culture: Transport – More Fun in the Philippines?

POLAND
Place: Warsaw

Culture: In Search of Mokotowski, Neon Lights (now part of Warsaw New blog), Travellers Cafe.

PORTUGAL
Place: Faro, Lisbon, Sintra

ROMANIA
Place: Cluj-Napoca

SAN MARINO
Place: San Marino (no blog)

SCOTLAND
Place: Edinburgh, Fort William, Glasgow, Inverness

Culture: The poem Lyrical Scotland appears in Notate, buy it here. Derek Forbes A Very Simple Mind (book review), Graeme Thomson Simple Minds Themes for Great Cities (book review)

Music: Hats off to the Scots (Simple Minds, The Blue Nile, Love and Money, The Big Dish, Aztec Camera, Del Amitri, Chvrches and many more)

SERBIA
Place: Belgrade

SINGAPORE
Place: Singapore

SLOVENIA
Place: Ljubliana

SLOVAKIA
Place: Bratislava

SPAIN
Place: Albacete, Alicante, Barcelona, Bilbao, Cadiz, Castellon, Elche, Madrid, Malaga, Murcia, Orihuela, Pamplona, Tarragona, Seville, Valencia (see also upcoming Iberia Unknown book)

Culture: Transport Nostalgia (part of revised Barcelona blog), The Murals of San Isidro

SWEDEN
Place: Malmo (pre-blog)

Music: Stina Nordenstam – IN PROGRESS

SWITZERLAND
Place: Geneva, Montreux (pre-blog), Zurich

Culture: Remembering Switzerland

TAIWAN
Place: Hsinchu, Kaohsiung, Taichung, Taipei

Culture: Flying the Golden Route with Hello Kitty

THAILAND
Place: Bangkok

TURKEY
Place: Istanbul
*See also Year Amid Winter book, buy it here.

UKRAINE
Place: Kiev

UNITED KINGDOM
See England, Scotland and Wales

UNITED STATES
Place: Los Angeles (pre-blog see poem LAX in Terminal Wanderlust)

Culture: Hall and Oates and the new wave of American Culture, Ian Abrahams On Track… Hall and Oates (book review), Populating Polytown: Mapping the Spiritual Nineties and the Geography of Sound, Richard J Williams Why Cities Look the Way They Do (book review), Steven Hyden This Isn’t Happening (book review)

Music: Cock Robin, Harold Budd (eulogy), Jon Hassell (eulogy), Prince (eulogy)

VATICAN
Place: Vatican City (pre-blog)

VIETNAM
Place: Hanoi, HCMC

Culture: Maison D’Orient, Riding the Rails of Reunification

WALES
Place: Abergavenny, Barry, Caerleon, Caerphilly, Cardigan, Cardiff, Cowbridge, Cwmbran, Llangollen, Monmouth, Newport, Penarth, Pontypool, Pontypridd, Swansea, Usk, Wrexham.

Culture: Kizuna Wales-Japan Design Exhibition, Cardiff Parks, The Hopper Season, Is the BBC Too Arrogant? Transport Futurology.

Music: Scritti Politti