A Restless Traveller
Reflections on my Eurail adventure in 1977
Published on 22. August 2023
978-1-4477-1149-0 (ISBN)
Description
As a Portuguese-born but Australian-naturalised young man, I travelled during my university gap year of 1977 from Australia to Europe to revisit my country of birth and to tour western and northern Europe, mainly on the back of a pre-purchased second class Eurail pass. This is the account of that journey but not only. The central idea of the memoir is to relate a significant experience at the age of 23 and to reflect on that from the perspective of 45 years later, as well as to draw links to other events and preoccupations held during my life, such as important issues of love, identity and self-judgement.
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Person
Cathy Douzil - cover image; João Magro - cover and layout design
Content
Acknowledgements,Preface,Life before 1977,Living in the seventies,For my brother,Making preparations,Bangkok friendships,Grey skies blue skies,Mona Lisa smile,Where are the damn toilets?!,A breath of fresh air,City of dreams and despair,The restless traveller,A thirst for intimacy,The long and winding road to Paris,A bourgeois romance,Paper aeroplanes at the Empire Pool,Beauty and breadth,All the world's a stage,The Grand Place of Europe,Romancing the canals,The German Autumn,Chance encounters of a different kind,Warm snow and cosy Swedes,Breathtaking Norway,The Swedish affair,Finding Erica,In the wake of a love that was,A damp Christmas,The long dark night of the soul,Goodbye and all the rest,Not happy new year,The long journey home,Epilogue,Author biography
