A few things worth a look on a quiet Sunday:
A short bike ride with Ewan McGregor in the Times is a good insight into the motorbike adventurer/actor as he sets off with journalist Jon Swain:
…the short trip I proposed we should make risked, I feared, being seen by the 37-year-old Scottish-born actor as dull and artificial. The plan was to ride into the Santa Monica mountains behind LA, then wind down onto the Pacific Coast Highway for a bit – one of the best riding roads in the US. To reach it we would ride the Topanga Canyon loop, with its steep side roads, which I was told were a blast to explore by motorbike…
Meanwhile historian Simon Schama describes how he fell in love with America at 19 whilst listening to the blues in a Washington piano bar in 1964: “In the red-lit shadows, I took pulls at my Lucky Strike, put my mouth to the open-necked beer bottle and fancied that with each drag I was closer to becoming the Hoochie Coochie Man myself”
Finally the Telegraph has my picture of the week showing Cholla the painting horse at work on his latest masterpiece at home on the ranch in Reno, Nevada. Cholla’s paintings are being exhibited in Italy for the next few weeks - you can find out more at his website or watch him in action in the video below:
