Then & There - a vintage travel podcast
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Then & There - a vintage travel podcast
Ceridwen E McKenna is your time traveling tour guide, reading from historic travel narratives before flight shrunk the world. From medieval times to the last century, experience travel through vintage eyes through your modern ears. 20 minute episodes include whole serialized books and travel jou...
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Episode 4: God of Tramps, Pity The Horse of Venice
Smith has a love of those young men, does he not? Our author in 1898 Venice brings us along the Riva in the second half of day, admiring all the sigh...
Episode 3: Lunch to Evening - Bliss and Oleander, and Littering
Staying the course of the most beautiful city in the book author's memory, we pick up the day in the middle with F. Hopkinson Smith and Espero "his" g...
Episode 2: Morning to Lunch - a day with the gondolier
What could be more awe-inspiring than waking up in Venice in 1898 and having all day to float? Come relish the canals in the gondola with our author...
Episode 1: Gondola Days - An Arrival by Train 1897
Welcome to Venice, site of ancient, watery dreams of gold, purple, song, oleander! Follow F. Hopkinson Smith as he (Francis) takes us via rail to the...
Episode 12: Ep. 10 Come With Me-Holland-Dordrecht-Zeeland-Friesland
In our final quick trip around the Netherlands, "Come With Me" author Schoonmaker breezes through much of South Holland, Zeeland and Friesland provinc...
Episode 11: Edam-Delft-Rotterdam and More places that sound like cursing!
In 1928, art lover Frank Schoonmaker describes his methods in touring the small and large towns in North and South Holland, including Utrecht, Rotterd...
Episode 10: Come with Me -Netherlands Preview - How to Find What You Look For
Continuing Come with Me Through Belgium and Holland by Frank Schoonmaker (an America author). This book was published in 1928 by William M. McBride &...
Episode 9: Come with Me Through Netherlands!
How different is Holland from Belgium? How does a Dutch person feel about their bicycle?
This episode embarks on
Book 2 on Holland (as author...
Episode 8: Termonde, Myths, Giants, Charlemagne
Legends recounted in the times before and after the Emporer Charlemagne, including an enormous infamous horse. This tour through Dendermonde Belgium c...
Episode 7: Continuing Tour of Belgian Villages
Belgium’s smaller towns are spotlighted this episode. Furnes, Courtrai, Tournai, Mons, Liége. - Follow along and explore past trifles like Portable Am...
Episode 6: Ep5 - Alost & how Belgium came to Be
Our journey continues with the little town of Alost, Pre-WWI, from Vanished Towers and Chimes of Flanders (George Wharton Edwards, 1910). Kerry E McKe...
Both Books- Antwerp, Nieuwport, Battles
Picturesque Countryside, Art Snobbery and and "before and after the war" tour of many Belgian villages and coast. This episode starts with Chapter 3 o...
Bonus Belgium - Bells, Bells, Bells!
Kerry introduces a new, rare book to enhance our tour of Belgium. Vanished Towers and Chimes of Flanders, 1916, offers colorful stories and detailed d...
Episode 0 - Welcome to Then & There,
Your time traveling tour guide Kerry E McKenna welcomes you to this new podcast. How it came into being, what inspired Kerry to read travel narrative...
Ep. 2 - Brussels and its Environs
In the beginning of Chapter 3 (of Come with Me Through Belgium and Holland), we wander through the spacious streets of Brussels, of which the author i...
Ep. 1 - Come with Me Through Belgium and Holland 1928
Chapter 1 Part 1 - Belgium "Before You Go" advice from author Frank Schoonmaker. In 1927-8, what was first or second class train travel like? -Old mon...