Tassilo de la Torre

Writing

Writing

Essays and expedition reports. Some of it is about rivers. Most of it is about what you find out when you travel at the slowest speed available.

Essay · The Danube · Original in German

Halte durch, Europa

On the roof of a Soviet boathouse in Budapest, patching a seventy year old folding kayak named Europa, with the Hungarian Parliament shining on the far bank. A thousand kilometres down, sixty days to the Black Sea, and a continent that needs repairing.

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Report · Italy · Original in German

Befahrung des Tibers

380 kilometres alone by canoe, from Sansepolcro to the sea, in a boat I bought from an 88 year old woman. Weirs, portages, rapids, campsites and water quality, day by day. Written because I could not find a single complete report on this river before I went.

Translations: English · Español · Français · Italiano