by tim_bell | Aug 6, 2012 | Latest News
Click on The Walks page to see the August programme. No advance booking or enquiries necessary – it’s turn-up-and-go. Looking forward to seeing you.
by tim_bell | Aug 2, 2012 | Latest News
All hail, Danny Boyle (and those who gave him the space to express himself). Both Trainspotting and the Olympic launch are full of ambition and attitude. In London last week, on a hugely risky and potent stage, he saved us from what would otherwise have been a...
by tim_bell | Jul 25, 2012 | Latest News
Who would have thought that Danny Boyle of Trainspotting and Slumdog Millionaire would have landed the launching spectacular of the London Olympics? But there again, if he can make blockbuster films out of heroin abuse and extreme poverty, maybe he’s the man to...
by tim_bell | Jul 6, 2012 | Latest News
Not a translation job. I’m going on my hols in Pembrokeshire next week, and I’ll see if the muse visits me there. I have a breakthrough insight into the structure of Trainspotting, so I am aiming to be creative, constructive, and crashed out all in one...
by tim_bell | Jun 28, 2012 | Latest News
Two different German university groups have done the tour in the last couple of weeks. They have been before, and their excellent level of knowledge and understanding never ceases to amaze me. If their counterparts in the economics departments can match them, we can...
by tim_bell | Jun 16, 2012 | Latest News
What a wet, cold evening for the final programme tour of Leith Festival! We found shelter wherever we could, and the Dockers’ Club kindly gave us a room they weren’t using so we could do the last third of the tour inside. Around fifty people came on four...
by tim_bell | Jun 10, 2012 | Latest News
A total of 24 people came on last weekend’s tours, and a jolly good time was had by all. On Saturday we took shelter from the heavy downpour in the TESCO trolley park for the Leith Central Station / ‘trainspotting’ episode! They came from South...
by tim_bell | Jun 4, 2012 | Latest News
Speaking to a man I have never met before about something completely unconnected with this project, it turns out he has real hard information that will help my researches. He certainly doesn’t want to be identified – he has his reasons! I’m looking...
by tim_bell | May 28, 2012 | Latest News
It isn’t very often that I run a programme of tours, but one of them is coming up fast. For all the fun of the fair, go to the Leith Festival site, or see the T-tours on this Home page. Sunshine on Leith – cannae whack it! PS the other time of year is...
by tim_bell | May 28, 2012 | Latest News
It’s not all tough preparing a book for publication. There was me, on a lovely sunny day, only yards away from Spud’s bench (Trainspotting p121) discussing with a student how to get some footage of the tour. She’s coming on one of the Leith Festival...
