Mature Flâneur
Tim Ward
Slow Travel Through Portugal, France, Italy and Norway
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Release Date: 28/07/2023
Slow Travel Through Portugal, France, Italy and Norway
How to give yourself the gift of time when you travel, and by so doing, discover something about the world, and about yourself.
In the aftermath of the pandemic, author Tim Ward and his wife, Teresa, decided to leave their home and professional careers in the US to spend a year in Europe as flâneurs. The French word "flâneur" means one who “wanders without purpose, observing society.” As the French literary critic Sainte-Beuve explained it, to flâne “is the very opposite of doing nothing.” Indeed, it is to give yourself the gift of time: permission to live an unstructured life and, by so doing, discover something about the world, and about yourself.