The bulk of this journey was done back in July; but there was a 60km gap still to fill at top right, which I finally finished last week. So that's it - 678km on foot from Dunmore Head to Burr Point. Now the business of post-it notes and reference books and Word docs begins. #ThePathlessLand
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On the home-cliff earlier in the week. Roaring air above, a secret stillness below; fugitive sunlight on Bosigran.
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Digging out some F. Scott Fitzgerald for teaching purposes, and struck by a sudden nostalgia, remembering how obsessed I was in my late teens. My first proper literary fixation, before Hemingway. I'm pretty sure Fitzgerald holds up rather better beyond adolescence than Hemingway.
Delighted to be on the judging panel for the Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year 2024. I have the great pleasure of diving into six illuminating – and wonderfully varied – books by Alice Albinia, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Mary Colwell, @timhannigan.bsky.social, Leon McCarron & Tom Parfitt.
There's probably still just about time to get a copy if there's anyone you know needs a Christmas present and is into travel writing, history, Cornwall, walking and stuff like that. And pasties - good for anyone who likes pasties too...
I'd say so...
On fashy nature writing, is it? Was just over on the other place, saw someone share a painting of imaginary wolves wandering through an "Atlantic rainforest", suffered a viscerally antipathetic reaction, and thought, "It's bloody Richard Smyth's fault that I didn't just go, 'Aww, lovely wolves...'"