Straying

I finished touring the Marginal Mystery Tour a week ago. I am still decompressing. It was an amazing experience to be on the road for five weeks, traipsing around the...

MR ROUNTREE'S IMAGINATION

Slow hand clap to humanity for dreaming up such a terrible, terrible idea.

TOUR IN, TOUR OUT

I’m into week two of the Marginal Mystery Tour: 1923...

SWIMMING IN DEEP WATERS

It was in Canada that I met him for the first time. In fact I shook him warmly by the hand. Perhaps it would have been wiser...

1923. THE PAGES TURN AGAIN.

The story continues, as I always knew it would. At the beginning of November, on the 2nd in fact, I messaged Wim de Lentdecker, who you will perhaps remember is...

A RETURN TO LA ROCHE - Ned Boulting

And why did it have such an effect on us all? Place. Place is the answer. The sense of the land beneath our feet and the interplay of permanence and...

1923: An Explanation. By Ned Boulting.

Nothing I have ever written has seized me like this. It’s no exaggeration to say that what began as a journey to satisfy a certain curiosity, during that long,...

LUKEWARM TAKES FROM MILAN SANREMO

All right, so what happened there then? Here’s my lukewarm takes: I would prefer Julian Alaphilippe to not crash so much (though I did enjoy watching him...

SOMNAMBULANT IN SANREMO. By Ned Boulting.

I’m back in Sanremo. This race has become so much a part of the flow of my year, that I can’t quite imagine March without it. I have been...

1923 - THE MYSTERY OF LOT 212 AND A TOUR DE FRANCE OBSESSION. By Ned Boulting.

In September 2020, I bought a mysterious reel of film at a London auction house. It was very old. That much I knew. And it was probably from the Tour...

ERNST TOLLER: A LIFE REMEMBERED BY CHANCE. By Ned Boulting.

Recently I posted a link to a film which my grandfather John produced, and which had been directed by his twin brother Roy. It was one of the first of...