My experimentation with travel writing styles and layouts dates from the turn of the century. I was in Dresden on a German language course at the Goethe Institute. It was the end of August 1999, all the talk in Germany then was all about the process to welcome Poland into the EU. I had taken a huge step in my career and was going to spend five years in industry, to lead a web development team for British Airways in Europe. I had been teaching European Cyberculture at Sunderland University so my mind was full of HTML and how it could make writing more visual without using photographs. HTML sounds so artisan now as I write this. Please click on cover to download a PDF My piece of writing from Dresden, called ABC.HTM, celebrates its own influences and roots: Roland Barthes’ autobiography written in alphabetical order, the tradition of French song taken up by rappers, and most of all, the conceit and wit of a travel piece where the journey is unexpectedly short. Remember, we looked a
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