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|title=Last Days of the Bus Club
|author=Chris Stewart
|publisher=Sort of Books
|date=June 2014
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|summary=Not the most earth-changing travel book, particularly as the travel element is very, very low, but this is a welcome return for fans of Stewart.
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I could well have been a near-neighbour of Chris Stewart. Not, of course, near his current primary occupancy, an ecological farmstead just beyond the turning off from the back end of nowhere in the most rural of corners of southern Spain, but back when he lived in the south-east of England, being Genesis' first ever drummer, and building bridges in the North Downs. The fact I learnt the latter from this book shows up several of the features of this warm-hearted 'travelogue' – the fact that Stewart is never shy about portraying family details and history – given a good map and a prevailing wind one could find where he lives and descend on the farm, if one wished; and that while this might be on the travel shelves, the narrative is so fragmented it actually moves a lot more than any of the characters do.
I must thank the publishers for my review copy.
There was more mileage to the author's previous book, and his only one not in this series - [[Three Ways to Capsize a Boat: An Optimist Afloat by Chris Stewart|Three Ways to Capsize a Boat: An Optimist Afloat]]. You might appreciate [[Sketches of Spain by Duncan Gough]] but we had our reservations.
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