Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe
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Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe is a 1991 humorous travelogue by American writer Bill Bryson. It documents the author's tour of Europe in 1990, with many flash-backs to two summer tours he made in 1972 and 1973 in his college days. Talk about the 1973 tour focuses to a large extent on the fact that he did that trip together with "Stephen Katz", who would play a more prominent role in Bryson's later book A Walk in the Woods.
His trip starts in Hammerfest, in northern Norway, in winter, where Bryson's goal is to see the Northern Lights. The book ends with Bryson reaching Istanbul, Turkey, and commenting on how the city is the gateway to Asia from Europe and vice versa.
Unlike Bryson's later books, this one is marked by his solo observations; he does not seem to engage locals in conversation in his travels, nor is there as much detailed historical research about the history, flora and fauna of the places visited, as in his later books such as Down Under / In a Sunburned Country or A Walk in the Woods.
[edit] Places visited
- Norway (Hammerfest, Oslo)
- France (Paris)
- Belgium (Brussels, Bruges, Spa, Durbuy)
- Germany (Aachen, Cologne, Hamburg)
- The Netherlands (Amsterdam)
- Denmark (Copenhagen)
- Sweden (Gothenburg, Stockholm)
- Italy (Rome, Naples, Sorrento, Capri, Florence, Milan, Como)
- Switzerland (Brig, Geneva, Bern)
- Liechtenstein
- Austria (Innsbruck, Salzburg, Vienna)
- Yugoslavia (Split, Sarajevo, Belgrade)
- Bulgaria (Sofia)
- Turkey (Istanbul)
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