Genova, the bay

Snow, finally

Back to work oh my oh my!

The hotel Suisse, Nice

This is not a pilgrimage! I just happened to be walking at the end of the promenade des anglais, and bumped into the Hotel Suisse, where James Joyce is known to have stayed, as he started work on Finnegan's wake, or so says the memorial plaque on the facade of the hotel. Here the view as you step out of the hotel.

Shop in Dijon

Morning light, Ponte Tresa

Zurich in Joyce

"O, by the by, lets wee brag of praties, it ought to be always remembered in connection with what has gone before that there was a northroomer, Herr Betreffender, out for his zimmer holedigs, digging in number 32 at the Ram and Puncheon (Branch of Dirty Dick’s were house) in Laxslip (where the Sockeye Sammons were stopping at the time orange fasting) prior to that, A Kommerzial (Gorbotipacco, he was wreaking like Zentral Oylrubber) from Osterich, the U.S.E paying (Gaul save the mark!) 11/- in the week (Gosh, these wholly romads!) of conscience money in the first deal of Yuly wheil he was, swishing beesnest with blesure, and swobbing brogan eerish myth brockendootsch, making his reportage on Der Fall Adams for the Frankofurto Siding, a Fastland payrodicule, and er, consstated that one had on him the Lynn O’Brien, a meltoned lammswolle, disturbed, and wider he might the same zurichschicken other he would, with tosend and obertosend tonnowaters, one monkey’s damages become".

James Joyce, Finnegan's wake (1939) Chapter 3