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29 NOVEMBER 2008
OLD MAN ON A BIKE – THE SNOW TOURIST
Sandi Toksvig meets Simon Gandolfi, who at the age of seventy three rode the length of South America on a motorbike. She also talks to Charlie English, Associate Editor at The Guardian, who’s fascination for snow transformed him into an enthusiastic ‘snow tourist’.
Presented by Sandi Toksvig
This week’s guests:
Simon Gandolfi (now 75) was seventy three when he undertook a motorbike trip on a Honda 125 from Veracruz in Mexico to Tierra del Fuego in Argentina. Simon had suffered two heart attacks and also wished to discover for himself whether the people of South America fitted the stereotypes assigned to them as well as find out what they thought of the British. He first took a flight to the US then a bus down to Mexico where he purchased a small but rugged motorbike.
Simon then crisscrossed South America visiting Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. In his book Old Man on a Bike, Simon recounts the joys of travelling with an open heart and mind and recounts the adventures he had and remembers the people he met.
Old Man on a Bike
Publisher: The Friday Project Limited (1 Sep 2008)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1906321663
ISBN-13: 978-1906321666
The Foreign & Commonwealth Office's (FCO)
Travel Advice Notices aim to ensure that British travellers are well prepared before departure.
Charlie English (Associate Editor at The Guardian) talks about his new book (The Snow Tourist) a travelogue, history and memoir. Charlie remembers his childhood and the magic of winters’ mornings and the world transformed by snow fall in East Yorkshire. Charlie is also a winter sports enthusiast and has travelled from the Arctic Circle to New York, Scotland and central Europe to indulge his passion for snowboarding. Charlie also likes snow science and talks about Wilson Bentley’s pioneering work on snow crystals.
The Snow Tourist
Publisher: Portobello Books Ltd
ISBN-10: 1846270642
ISBN-13: 978-1846270642
CD: Argentine - Chamamé - Musique Du Paraná
Artist: Rudi Flores; Nini Flores
Label: OCORA C560052
Track 1 Title: A Mi Corrientes
CD: Christmas Carols From St. John's
Artist: Choir of St. John's College Cambridge
Label: CHANDOS CHAN8485
Track 5 Title: In The Bleak Mid-Winter
Composer: Gustav Holst
Arranger: Philip Kenyon
Lumilaulu (Kansanlaulu) – Snow Song from Finnish Snow-walks and Dances
(Finnish translation: “Snow is come - the world is white - the world lies dreaming - under the snow”)
Traditional folk song ritually performed by women only on the morning after the first snow of the year has fallen. Originally sung in the language of the Sami (Lapland) people – recorded by Gabi Schaffner a travelling artist and storyteller who lives in Hamburg, Germany.
Wilson Alwyn "Snowflake" Bentley
(February 9 1865 – December 23, 1931)
the first known photographer of snow crystals.
Snowflakes in Photographs
by W.A. Bentley
Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
ISBN-10: 0486412539
ISBN-13: 978-0486412535The BBC cannot be held responsible for
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