I had coffee with Guy, in Basel, in late 2010: he was there scouting for a move, and his modus operandi was to scout for interesting agglomerations of coffee shops, bookstores, etc., and then look for places to live in an area radiating outward. This is akin to my advice to university students: find the interesting professors and take their courses, no matter the subject. Context over content.
In this vein, I was drawn to a list of here of nine shops that stock Robida magazine. Robida is fascinating and weird and rich in all the right ways; I reason that any shop that carries it will be similarly fascinating and weird and rich. Evidence from browsing websites suggests this is the case.
And so a plan: visit all nine. One could do worse for the spine of an European itinerary.
Here are the coordinates:
- Zabrieskie (Reichenberger Str. 150, Berlin)
- San Serriffe (Sint Annenstraat 30, Amsterdam)
- Rile (62 Rue des Commerçants, Brussels)
- Page Not Found (Boekhorststraat 126-128, Den Haag)
- Materia Prima (Rua Miguel Bombarda 232, Porto)
- Bruno (Dorsoduro 2729, Venezia)
- Edicola 518 (Via Sant’Ercolano 42/A, Perugia)
- NOI (Via delle Leghe 18, Milano)
- Frabs Magazines (Via dei Filergiti 1, Forli)
As a service to the magazine-loving flaneur, I ensured that all of the shops are in OpenStreetMap (here’s a query to get them all).
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