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Promoting “The Idiot” And “The Paris Metro” In The World’s First Book Town

Posted on June 29, 2026 by Joel in England, Featured, Follow The Idiot, France, Idiotic Musings, PR, Style, Travel, Wales | Leave a comment

The Idiot, a shameless and tireless promoter of his books and magazines, just took his literary road show to Hay-on-Wye on the England/Wales border. He not only promoted his “The Idiot and the Odyssey” trilogy of travel narratives but also distributed copies of “The Paris Metro” 50th Anniversary Issue published earlier this month. The current version of the English-language fortnightly publication employed the same writers, format and paper as it did when it took Paris by storm between 1976-79. Hay-on-Wye … →

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Returning To The Mediterranean And Ambling In Albania

Posted on March 21, 2026 by Joel in Albania, Featured, Follow The Idiot, Idiotic Musings, Mediterranean Pix, MedTrekking, Travel, Weather | Leave a comment

Although no longer seriously Medtrekking since he completed his 20-year circumnavigation of the Mediterranean Sea in 2018, The Idiot frequently takes a freewheeling amble on the Med a few times a year. This spring he was on the seaside and in the interior of Albania for ten days.                    

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Who Does The Idiot Meet On An Art And Literary Walk On The French Riviera?

Posted on May 16, 2025 by Joel in Featured, Follow The Idiot, Food, France, Idiotic Musings, Mediterranean Pix, MedTrekking, PR, Style, Travel, Weather | Leave a comment

The Idiot led a group of Australians on an art and literary walk around Antibes in mid-May and introduced them to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Graham Greene, Victor Hugo, Nikos Kazantzakis, Jules Verne and other writers who have found inspiration on this part of the Mediterranean Sea. The walk followed the path taken by The Idiot when he began his 20-year-MedTrek around the world’s largest inland sea on January 1, 1998. To his delight, not much has changed and there have … →

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Discovering Cairo’s New, And Most Valuable, GEM

Posted on February 23, 2025 by Joel in Egypt, Featured, Follow The Idiot, Idiotic Musings, PR, Syria, Travel | Leave a comment

The Egyptian Tourist Police frequently “insisted” that The Idiot be accompanied by armed guards when he MedTrekked from the Suez Canal to the Libya Border in 2017 to gather information for the third volume of The Idiot and the Odyssey trilogy of travel narratives.But today they let him roam footloose and fancy free throughout Cairo’s newest GEM, aka the Grand Egyptian Museum, which officially opens on July 3 (the original, and much-postponed, opening date was 2012). It was worth the wait … →

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Where Did The Idiot Walk And Swim In 2024?

Posted on December 29, 2024 by Joel in An Odyssey in China & Tibet, Bhutan, England, Featured, Follow The Idiot, Food, France, Greece, Idiotic Musings, Italy, Mediterranean Pix, MedTrekking, PR, South Africa, Style, Travel, USA, Weather | 2 Comments

The Idiot’s most viral “athletic” moment in 2024 might have been a 15-minute pre-Olympics swim in the Seine in Paris on July 4. But he also managed to walk 4.77-million steps with his iPhone in his pocket. Here’s where he did it a stroke and step at a time to prepare for more in 2025.                        

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Why Is The Idiot Offering YOU A Free Trip To The Amazon For Christmas?

Posted on November 21, 2024 by Joel in Cyprus, Egypt, Featured, Follow The Idiot, France, Greece, Idiotic Musings, Italy, Lebanon, Malta, Mediterranean Pix, MedTrekking, Monaco, Morocco, PR, Spain, Style, Travel, USA | Leave a comment

The time has come for YOU to visit the Amazon and expand your travel horizons for Christmas. Just take a look at what you’ll find @ https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/entity/author/B004KA6V5O?_encoding=UTF8&node=2656022011&offset=0&pageSize=12&searchAlias=stripbooks&sort=author-sidecar-rank&page=1&langFilter=default#formatSelectorHeader Interested in more about the pleasures and perils of this trip? Listen to a recent interview with The Idiot on NPR’s “Nancy’s Bookshelf” @ https://www.mynspr.org/show/nancys-bookshelf/2024-09-18/nancys-bookshelf-a-short-swim-in-the-seine-river       Continue with The Idiot’s second book in “The Idiot and the Odyssey” trilogy of travel narratives.    

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