North America Travel 2009

Welcome! I am currently travelling in the United States and Canada, having started at the end of July 2009, and continuing until the middle of December. Collected together in this section of the site you can find lots of information about my trip, including Photos I’ve taken, Articles and Notebook entries I’ve published about the trip, and also my Itinerary and a map of my route. I am trying to keep the site updated as I travel, but lack of time and energy sometimes prevent me from updating as often as I like. Nevertheless, look through what is already here, and check back often! All questions and comments are gladly received: either leave comments on individual entries or photos, or else get in touch by email.

Most recent articles & notebook entries

Overheard on the train, again

Sunday 29 November 2009 • Notebook entry

It’s a frequent problem. Say you have just run into someone who was at one point quite a close friend but whom you haven’t seen for a long time: how does the conversation go? How can you return to your former chumminess after all this time? How do you pick any of the…

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Defining the social focus of the anglosphere

Sunday 29 November 2009 • Notebook entry

I am in the process of writing an article on language in Canada (I might not really have written anything before I get back to England, so don’t hold your breath, lovers of the maple leaf and linguaphiles1). In the course of my Wikipedia research, I came across the…

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Panoramic View of the Palace and Gardens of Versailles

Thursday 19 November 2009 • Notebook entry

I think this is pretty cool. Below you should be able to see a photo I took of a panoramic painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. This is John Vanderlyn’s (1775–1852) ‘Panoramic View of the Palace and Gardens of Versailles’ (1818–19). It is a…

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Most recent photos

  1. Richard Flynn
    Gantry Plaza Park, Long Island City, Queens, New York, New York.

    Gantry Plaza Park, Long Island City, Queens, New York, New York.

  2. Richard Flynn
    Scenes from the life of St Andrew (c. 1420–30), attr. to the Master of Roussillon (Catalonia). Said to have come from a church at Perpignan. (Cloisters)

    Scenes from the life of St Andrew (c. 1420–30), attr. to the Master of Roussillon (Catalonia). Said to have come from a church at Perpignan. (Cloisters)

  3. Richard Flynn
    One of the cloisters in the Cloisters. (Cloisters)

    One of the cloisters in the Cloisters. (Cloisters)

  4. Richard Flynn
    Window into the Gothic chapel. (Cloisters)

    Window into the Gothic chapel. (Cloisters)

  5. Richard Flynn
    The ‘Man of Sorrows’ fresco (c. 1370) by Niccolò di Tommaso (fl. 1343–76) from Florence. (Cloisters)

    The ‘Man of Sorrows’ fresco (c. 1370) by Niccolò di Tommaso (fl. 1343–76) from Florence. (Cloisters)

  6. Richard Flynn
    Two stained-glass windows: the adoration of the Magi (1507) by the Circle of the Strassburger Werkstattgemeinschaft (active in southern and central Germany c. 1470–1500), and the circumcis ...

    Two stained-glass windows: the adoration of the Magi (1507) by the Circle of the Strassburger Werkstattgemeinschaft (active in southern and central Germany c. 1470–1500), and the circumcis ...

  7. Richard Flynn
    Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece, c. 1427–32) by the Workshop of Robert Campin (Southern Netherlands, Tournai). (Cloisters)

    Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece, c. 1427–32) by the Workshop of Robert Campin (Southern Netherlands, Tournai). (Cloisters)

  8. Richard Flynn
    A chapel in the Cloisters. (Cloisters)

    A chapel in the Cloisters. (Cloisters)

  9. Richard Flynn
    Depiction of the Lamentation from central Spain, c. 1480. (Cloisters)

    Depiction of the Lamentation from central Spain, c. 1480. (Cloisters)

  10. Richard Flynn
    Panels with the Crucifixion and the Lamentation by the Master of the Codex of St George (Florentine, fl. in Avignon c. 1320–35). (Cloisters)

    Panels with the Crucifixion and the Lamentation by the Master of the Codex of St George (Florentine, fl. in Avignon c. 1320–35). (Cloisters)

  11. Richard Flynn
    Ivory Altar Cross (English, c. 1150–60) and ivory plaque depicting Christ before the High Priest Caiaphas (English, c. 1150–75). (Cloisters)

    Ivory Altar Cross (English, c. 1150–60) and ivory plaque depicting Christ before the High Priest Caiaphas (English, c. 1150–75). (Cloisters)

  12. Richard Flynn
    Standing statue of the Virgin and Child (c. 1470), attr. to Niclaus Gerhaert von Leiden (perhaps Viennese, fl. 1460–73). (Cloisters)

    Standing statue of the Virgin and Child (c. 1470), attr. to Niclaus Gerhaert von Leiden (perhaps Viennese, fl. 1460–73). (Cloisters)

  13. Richard Flynn
    A cloistered courtyard. (Cloisters)

    A cloistered courtyard. (Cloisters)

  14. Richard Flynn
    ‘Scenes from the Life of St Augustine’ (c. 1490) by the Master of St Augustine (South Lowlands, Flanders, Bruges).

    ‘Scenes from the Life of St Augustine’ (c. 1490) by the Master of St Augustine (South Lowlands, Flanders, Bruges).

  15. Richard Flynn
    A woman looks at a mid-15th-century polyptych featuring the Nativity (S. Lowlands, Brabant, Brussels area). (Cloisters)

    A woman looks at a mid-15th-century polyptych featuring the Nativity (S. Lowlands, Brabant, Brussels area). (Cloisters)

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