A guide by PaoloT
A shoe store with the trendiest and best made shoes I've ever worn! Models designed after 50s sport shoes. Great colour combinations, and made by hand! The owner told me he sells most of the shoes and sneakers in Denmark and Japan. They have a museum with tons of 40s and 50s sport shoes.
Gurruchaga y Gorriti
Palermo, Buenos Aires
www.28sport.com
I think the best American road trip book ever is John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley, a non-fiction book Steinbeck wrote in 1964 about his country-wide wanderings with his standard poodle Charley in his converted truck - not so much about the places as the people and always through Steinbeck's most excellent plain-spoken and plain-seeing lens. Many truths about American humanity therein...
A cracking B&B on the Antrim coast, it's a couple of hours' drive from Belfast, but it feels like a million miles away. It's an 18th-century country house with only three rooms, exactly the sort of cosy, homely sort of place you want in this part of the world - the landlord actually won the AA Landlady of the Year prize in 2003, and he makes a great fry-up in the morning and serves tea and shortbread in front of the fire when you return from a blustery walk on the beach or the nearby Giant's Causeway. £70, double B&B.
Whitepark Road, Ballintoy, County Antrim.
028 207 31482
www.whiteparkhouse.com
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