Beesands – Dartmouth 17 July 2026 Distance on Coast Path: 17.5km; ascent: 346m Total distance: 19.1km; ascent: 346m Walking time: 4h 35′ Total time: 6h 16′ Overnight: Bus and train back home. I’d always planned an early start for today … Continue reading →
Bantham – Salcombe 15 July 2026 Distance on Coast Path: 17.8km; ascent: 362m Total distance: 17.8km; ascent: 362m Walking time: 4h 41′ Total time: 7h 12′ Overnight: The Fo’c’sle B&B, Salcombe Yesterday – Day 43 – had started well and … Continue reading →
Noss Mayo (Yealm ferry) – Bantham Preamble: getting there – 13 July 2026 Overnight: Worswell Barton Farm B&B, Noss Mayo (P & J Rogers) Three buses a day run from Plymouth to Noss Mayo. I was due to arrive at … Continue reading →
Plymouth (Mount Batten) – Yealm ferry 22 April 2026 Distance on Coast Path: 11.8km; ascent: 194m Total distance: 14.1km; ascent: 285m Walking time: 3h 30′ Total time: 4h 16′ Overnight: Self-catering, Plymouth I was the only passenger on the 9.15 … Continue reading →
Plymouth: Cremyll Ferry – Mount Batten 21 April 2026 Distance on Coast Path: 14.2km; ascent: 104m Total distance: 17.6km; ascent: 104m Walking time: 4h 03′ Total time: 5h 12′ Overnight: Self-catering, Plymouth It seemed to me that the section of … Continue reading →
While Pears’ ‘An Instance of the Fingerpost’ (published 1997) tells its story through the voices of four people and is set in one time period, ‘The Dream of Scipio’ (published 2002) and his ‘Stone’s Fall’ (published 2009) combine multiple protagonists … Continue reading →
Well, it finally arrived – the third and final volume of the ‘Book of Dust’ trilogy. Parts 1 and 2 are reviewed here. I was critical of the third book of the ‘Dark Materials’ trilogy (review here): would Pullman pull … Continue reading →
Isherwood’s story set in Berlin at the end of the Weimar Republic is a fictitious account drawing on his own time there and featuring characters based on real people. It is entertaining and amusing, but don’t expect to be shocked … Continue reading →
Having admired and enjoyed Pears’ ‘An Instance of the Fingerpost‘ and ‘Stone’s Fall‘ I came across ‘The Portrait’ by chance when I was looking for his ‘The Dream of Scipio’ in my local library catalogue. But while ‘Fingerpost’ and ‘Stone’ … Continue reading →
A classic I should have read long ago. It bounces up and down along the surface – entertaining, amusing. Then with the introduction of Bernhard Landauer you find you’re slithering and bumping down the crumbling cliff until you end up … Continue reading →
