Apart from the obvious eccentrics – someone on a London hire bike; the couple who got married mid-route – I noted a greater mix of gender and age, and many more people riding more everyday bikes, who looked like 100 miles would be a one-off challenge, not a weekend habit.
Perhaps a bit eccentric but someone you could depend on.
Baumer was an eccentric model for both, someone for whom activism was both a life style and a form of self-expression.
But, of course, all those other critics, though rarely dressed up in wigs and makeup (or dressed at all, for that matter), are notoriously irascible, tendentious, bad-tempered observers who like nothing more than settling old scores, indulging eccentric prejudices, and using someone else's table or text as an occasion to riff on their own obsessions.
Anytime I hear about someone that eccentric in my beautiful boring city I get really excited.
She introduces us to one eccentric and fascinating individual after the next, allowing us a taste of the "unexpected intimacy" that comes from entering someone's parlor or standing on his street corner.
Indeed, someone with an eccentric character is said to have "spirito Monte Baldino" – the spirit of Monte Baldo.
When we mourn Syd Barrett, we are, for once, mourning an actual eccentric genius, a true original, someone whose music, to a degree, seemed to come out of nowhere.
+351 266 508 200, enoforumwines.com, visit with blind tasting of two wines €10 Casa Pinto, Monsaraz This six-room guesthouse has rooms named after Portuguese colonies – Mombasa, Goa, Macao – and feels like someone's slightly eccentric home.
