I started my trip with the intention of visiting every location mentioned by Peter Sarstedt in his 1969 hit, Where Do You Go To My Lovely – the song which put my feet on the road. I’d meticulously kept a daily diary during my own European adventure a daily record of my whereabouts, the name of every person to whom I’d spoken, details of every venue at which I’d slept, including a night in a château having been given a lift by the owner my stop in Montelimar, after leaving Lyon, just to buy nougat, then Avignon, to see a bridge, and my reroute to Nîmes to see where denim, serge de Nîmes, had been invented. I feel a few pangs when I read about Paris although I’ve never been down and out. George Orwell’s book, ‘Down And Out In Paris And London’, was also a memory when I hitchhiked around Europe at the age of nineteen. Many may be familiar with ‘Animal Farm’ and ‘1984’. I read much of his work in my early teens. I post this work of George Orwell with mixed feelings.
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