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[[Category:New Reviews|Travel]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=G A JonesAlastair Humphreys|title=The Cruise of Naromis: August in the Baltic 1939Local|rating=45|genre=Travel|summary=There's brave, Alastair Humphreys has walked and there is bravecycled all over the world. And then written about it. I may well have been born in a coastal county but certainly would baulk at the idea of setting out For this book he walked and cycled very close to sea with four colleagues in a 37'-long boathome and then wrote about it. Boats to me are like planes – the bigger the betterAs he says in his introduction, and the safer book is an attempt ''to share what I feel as have learnt about some big issues from a resultyear exploring a small map. But luckily for the purpose of this bookNature loss, George Jones was born with a much different pair of sea-legs to minepollution, land use and took to the waters of access, agriculture, the English Channelfood system, the North Sea and beyond in rewilding…''Naromis'' with brio. But – and this is where One of the further definition joys of bravery comes in – the book for me was that the biggest thing he did it in August 1939learned about all of these things was that there are no easy answers, no single 'right or wrong', knowing full well that he would be sailing full tilt into the teeth of warevery upside is likely to have a downside for somebody and that there are some hard choices ahead.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1899262334</amazonuk>1785633678
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Paul Thurlby0957181167|title= NY is for New YorkBlue Skies and Boat Trips: The Norfolk of Brian Lewis|author=Alan Marshall|rating= 5|genre= Emerging ReadersArt|summary= Long gone There are the days when children didn't travel, and picture books had to few positive things which can be said about animals. And while your pre-schoolers might not be planning solo trips to the States any a substandard apartment when you’re on holiday but this time soon, it's never too early in trying to get them avoid looking at a problem I found myself looking more closely at a couple of pictures on the walls - and older siblings interested in other places was completely taken by the work of Brian Lewis. I searched online and other cultures. ''NY is for New York'' is a themed alphabet could only find ‘used’ versions of this book, based around and the city that never sleepsprint I wanted was ‘not available’. Oh, and it's chock full of facts and figures about dear - then a city I lovefew doors down from the apartment, teaching me many new things I didn't know about found a place I'm familiar gift shop with from visits a stack of brand new books - and TV shows and many, many Manhattan booksa framed print of the picture I wanted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444930311</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Duncan Gough1785633457|title= Sketches Charging Around: Exploring the Edges of SpainEngland by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating= 2.5|genre= Travel|summary= I salute Duncan Gough for many things: Clive Wilkinson has a history of travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel. As he neared his spirit eightieth birthday the idea of adventure, his willingness to trail exploring the backroadsedges of England in an electric car was not totally outrageous. In fact, his desire to document these and share them it should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and encourage others to follow in his wheel-ruts. I love his willingness to engage with locals and fellow-travellers. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785899759</amazonuk>wife, Joan, shouldn't it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Will Jones|title= How to Read New York: A Crash Course in Big Apple Architecture|rating= 5|genre= Travel|summary=New York is home to some of the most iconic and instantly-recognisable pieces of architecture in the world. The city is a mishmash of architectural styles, a place where Classical and Colonial meet Renaissance and Modernist. The result is a glorious fusion that works perfectly and upon closer inspection has a plethora of secrets just waiting to be revealed. Welcome to New York...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782404104</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Chris McIvorMerryn Glover|title=The World is ElsewhereHidden Fires
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|genre=AutobiographyTravel|summary=As a Country DirectorIt is always about the book, not the writer, Chris McIvor has worked for a number of years at Save but there are times when the Children. author'The World s hinterland is Elsewhere' covers his time there also the background to the book andso it is necessary to understand that context, his journeys across a number of countriesin order to appreciate the book. It Merryn Glover is a beautiful mix of autobiography Australian parentage, was born in Kathmandu, grew up in the Annapurna and travelHimalayan and now lives in Badenoch in Scotland. It also captures his philosophical thoughts on international aid. He reflects on both I can think of no-one better a combination to give us a re-appraisal of Nan Shepherds work than the good and first Writer in Residence in the bad with a very easyCairngorms National Park. Merryn walks, conversational writing style that makes not so much in the book truly captivatingshadow of Shepherd, but in her spirit. I read from cover to cover in a single sitting, unusual for a reviewer. Such was think the draw as he laid himself baretwo would have gotten along famously. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910124346</amazonuk>1846975751
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mark VanhoenackerB0B7289HKQ|title= SkyfaringConversations Across America: A Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of America|author=Kari Loya|rating= 24|genre= Travel|summary= I didn't grow up dreaming of flying planes, but I did grow up dreaming of flying ''in'' them on a regular basisKari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, by the way) wanted to spend some time with his father and I still love air travel. There's something the period between two jobs seemed like a little magical about good time to do it. The decision was made to ride the Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, and no amount of delays, go arounds, aborted landings or missing luggage will change that. And yesVirginia to Astoria, I've had Oregon - all 4250 miles of those it - in the last six weeks2015. Mark Vanhoenacker They had a childhood dream 73 days to become do it - slightly less than the recommended time - but there were factors which pointed this up as more of a pilot, and though he took a detour into academia, and then another into business, challenge that dream never left. Now it would be for most people who considered taking it on his third career (at least) he flies for BA, writing in his spare time. This book brings those two worlds together, aviation Merv Loya was 75 years old and publishing, as he takes the reader on a journey was suffering from earth to sky and back again, with the birdearly-stage Alzheimer's eye view only a pilot can muster.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099589850</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul JarvisErling Kagge|title=Mapping the AirwaysWalking: One Step At A Time|rating=4.5|genre=ArtLifestyle|summary=Before Those who have read my reviews before will know that how much I loved a book is evidenced by the number of pages with corners turned, so let me start, there is nothing wrong this one with being an anally retentive trainspottery typeapology to the Norfolk Library Service: sorry! I forgot it was your book not mine. Having said In my defence, I will say that, do you see what on the front cover as a reader of this first edition marks this type of book out as being completely and utterly there is something connective about noting where prior readers were inspired (provided it is subtle – I'll allow creased corners, but not scribbles – for the trainspottery type? It latter we must buy our own copy – which I am about to do as soon as I have finished telling you why). Erligg Kagge is a Norwegian explorer who has walked to the fact that South Pole, the foreword is both credited, North Pole and datedthe summit of Everest. He knows a thing or two about walking. YesHowever, unless this isn't a major change was imminent and the Executive Chairman travelogue about any of BA was going to be someone else within weeksthose epic journeys, this book gladly states that March 2016 was when he put finger it is instead a thoughtful exploration of what it means to laptop walk. It is a plenitude of unnumbered essays about walking. There is no 'contents' page and came up with his page-long contribution. Have you ever known such attention to detail? I guess ithaven's to be expectedt counted. In small format paperback, when the book concerns such each essay is only a singular entity as the visual history few pages long. Perhaps then, better thought of charts and maps as used by the airlines that became British Airwaysa meditation rather than an essay.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445654644</amazonuk>0241357705
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Cees Nooteboom and Laura Watkinson (Translator)Monica Connell|title= Letters to PoseidonAgainst a Peacock Sky|rating= 45|genre= Travel|summary= A serviette, a glass of champagne taken outside a fish restaurant in Monica Connell went to Nepal to do the open-air Viktualienmarkt fieldwork for her Ph.D. in Munich, all taken social anthropology. I think it is important to celebrate the first day of springknow that. She went on a grant-supported trip, prompt Cees Nooteboom into Proustian reveriewith a relatively specific objective. Upon the paper napkin is written in blue capitals the word POSEIDON, the Greek god who has preoccupied NooteboomShe wasn's thoughts t a hippy wanderer looking for several summersShangri-la. The blue colour reminds him of the sea viewed from Mediterranean garden of his villa in MenorcaShe wasn't a mere tourist passing through. Taking this prompting as She went with a moment fundamental aim of benign synchronicitylearning about these people and how they lived. She also went, presumably, he later begins a correspondence with this sea-deity. He seeks the academic discipline of how to inquire find these things out, how this somewhat unreliable ancient Greek Olympian sees aeons to organise them in her mind, how to "understand" them in the context of time her own paradigms, and sends him letters how to keep enough notes and legenda; meditations files and stories photos to be readhelp her create some greater sense of the experience after the event. Fortunately, both poetic she also went with a sense of open-ness and tragiccuriosity and a willingness to muck-in, from to break her own rules and to truly connect with the arts and people of the contemporary world. He is not expecting a replyvillage where she hauled up.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782066209</amazonuk>1780600429
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tony HawksNicolas Bouvier|title=Once Upon a Time in the West… CountryThe Japanese Chronicles|rating=35
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|summary=I have often complained in It never does to start a review of a book with a jokey voice to my partner about life in quote from the sticksblurb, and the way she moved me from an inner-city flat to slumming but sometimes it in the suburbs with fewer busses's unavoidable. Le Monde reviewed this book, no takeaways within walking-and-keeping-food-hot distanceat some point, and no with the words 'Polish' shops for what the old master craftsmen would call a can masterpiece.'' It is precisely that. A masterpiece in the sense of beer whenever you fancy onethe craft as well as the art of writing. Things are different with Tony Hawks, as here he has purposefully decided I'm going to up sticks from London hesitate to Somewhere, Devon – call it 'travel writing' because this is as much a tiny village where the people who built their own homes decades ago still live in themhistory of Japan, where slugs are a lot more of a problem for the wannabe lettucemythology-grower than they are primer for the metropolitan commuter, and where village halls have the power Japanese culture as it is a personal response to turn you into both a Pol Pot dictator if you get on their committee living and into a quivering, bruise-inducing wreck if you're travelling in the wrong gender at a Zumba class…country. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444794809</amazonuk>1906011044
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Chris TownsendStephen Fabes|title= Out ThereSigns of Life|rating= 45|genre= Animals and WildlifeTravel|summary= Chris Townsend has been I was brought up on maps and first-person narratives of tales of far away places. I was birth-righted wanderlust and curiosity. Unfortunately, I didn't inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was the guts to simply go out and do it. I also didn'Out There'' as a long distance walker for almost four decades. For most t inherit the kind of steady nerve, ability to talk to strangers and basic practicality that time he has would have meant that I would have survived if I had been equally gifted with the requisite 'bottle'out there. In order words I'' as a champion of m not the outdoors. He is the author of many books, many accounts sort of his treks, and his web site and blogs receive many thousands of visits. Here, for the first time, he gathers his thoughts and experience into person who will get on a single volume, singing bike outside a hymn of praise London hospital and not come home for the Wild, and stirring defence against human predationsix years. Fabes did precisely that. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910124729</amazonuk>1788161211
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kathleen WinterRob Baker|title=BoundlessToubab Tales: Adventures The Joys and Trials of Expat Life in the Northwest PassageAfrica
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|summary=Luck has a lot ''"Go to do with this worldMali," they said. "The music is amazing," they said. It was probably luck that let Kathleen Winter fill the post "And you get ten hours of unofficial writer-in-residence on a ship coursing through the Northwest Passagesunshine every day. It was doubtless luck that someone had told her to be ready and packed to accept any invite life might give you, only days beforehand" So I did. Some fortune meant she had grown up in Newfoundland, and so knew the weather, conditions and liminal locations and wildlife she might encounter'' Rob Baker is an ethnomusicologist. It's bad luck that between when she travelled, in 2010, and filled her pages with talk of Sir John Franklin's lost boats and lost bones, and 2016, when A what?'' I read this paperback version of the results, his prime ship has been found (if not what people allege will be revealed)hear you cry. It's vitally fortuitousWell, however, that someone with her writing nous was able an ethnomusicologist studies music in relation to travel the waters before something elseculture, much more permanent, changed – so rather like a folklorist studies the heinous climate change problems that are certainly upsetting the world up thereoral and written story traditions relating to a culture.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009958719X</amazonuk>B089CSNFT7
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julia BradburyChristine Brown|title=Unforgettable WalksBucket Showers and Baby Goats: Volunteering in West Africa|rating=4.5
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|summary=I've long been a fan In the summer of Julia Bradbury2008, this book's walking programmes on television - I credit author was spending her with sparking my own interest days working in an office job in walking - so the news that there would shortly be another series USA while spending her nights dreaming about being somewhere else, doing something else. Long story short, she ended up volunteering in Ghana, West Africa. Now coincidentally, in the summer of programmes 2010, this review's author was spending 'and'her'' a book to accompany days working in an office job (albeit in the series was music to my ears. This time sheUK) while spending ''her's looking at Britain's best walks with a view nights dreaming about being somewhere else, doing something else, and ''she roams through Dorset'' ended up just 3 countries away, the Cotswoldsvolunteering in Sierra Leone, AngleseyWest Africa. So you can see why, the Yorkshire Daleswhen this book came up, said reviewer was delighted to have the Lakes, Cumbria, the South Downs opportunity to read and the Peak District. Unless you're in Scotland there's something reasonably close to just about everyone, with a good spread around all points of the compasscritique it.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784298840</amazonuk>171024299X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael PronkoMourby_Rooms|title=Motions and MomentsRooms with a View: More Essays on TokyoThe Secret Life of Great Hotels|author=Adrian Mourby
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|summary=Last year I was lucky enough Adrian Mourby has given us a flying visit to review [[Beauty and Chaos: Slices and Morsels each of fifty grand hotels, from fourteen regions of Tokyo Life the world, with the hotels in each section being arranged chronologically rather than by Michael Pronko|Beauty and Chaos: Slices and Morsels region, which helps to give something of Tokyo Life]], Michael Pronkoan overall picture. So what makes a hotel 'grand's ? The first essay collection about his adopted city. I found that book hotel to call itself 'grand' was in Covent Garden in 1774 and it ushered in the beginning of a period when a hotel would be full of insight a lifestyle choice rather than a refuge for those without friends and variety, so was delighted to be approached about reviewing his latest book, ''Motions family conveniently nearby. The hotels we visit all began life in different circumstances and Moments'', which is each faced a third different set of essays (after ''Tokyo's Mystery Deepens'')challenges. Again We begin in the book is compiled from Pronko's ''Newsweek Japan'' articlesAmericas, this time from 2011 onwards. All of move to the pieces have been reworkedUnited Kingdom, but most of them remain short; 'Tokyo life is about spatial limitationscircumnavigate Europe,' Pronko wryly commentsbriefly visit Russia and Turkey then northern Africa, India and Asia. Australia, it's appropriate seems, does not go for his pieces to reflect thatthe grand. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1942410115</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Geert Mak1908745819|title= In America Travels with John SteinbeckSurfacing|author=Kathleen Jamie|rating= 4.5|genre= TravelHistory|summary= If someone tells Sometimes when people suggest that you they're going to write read a certain book, and they tell you ''this one has your name on it will be based on someone else's book'. Mostly we take them at their word, or not, and but rarely do we ask them why they thought so unless itturns out that we didn't like the book. That's based on a trip they'll dorare experience. People who are sensitive to hearing a book calling your name, which that other person also didrarely get it wrong. In this case, you might be left confused about I was told why. The blurb speaks of the author considering ''an older, less tethered sense of herself.'why' Older. Less tethered. That' exactly they would want s not a bad description of where I am. Add to do that. Surely more fun to do your own thingmy love of the natural world, rather than re-trace of those aspects of the steps poetic and lyrical that are about style not form, and substance most of someone who's been thereall, about connection. Of course, done that? ''In America Travels with John Steinbeck'' is this book, based had my name on John Steinbeck's earlier adventure but taking place 50 years laterit. It was written for me. It would have found its way to me eventually. I am pleased to have it fall onto my path so quickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099578735</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1912242052|title=O Joy for me!|author=Bee RowlattKeir Davidson|rating=3|genre=Art|summary=''Oh Joy for me!'' gives Coleridge credit for being ''the first person to walk the mountains alone, not because he had to for work, as a miner, quarryman, shepherd or pack-horse driver, but because he wanted to for pleasure and adventure. His rapturous encounters with their natural beauty, and its literary consequences, changed our view of the world''.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Woolf_Great|title=In Search of MaryThe Great Horizon: The Mother 50 Tales of all JourneysExploration|author=Jo Woolf
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|genre=AutobiographyHistory|summary=As Jo Woolf has compiled a university student at Glasgowbrilliant set of fifty short insights into the lives and achievements of some amazingly brave people. Their fearless journeys have helped us unlock many of the mysteries of the wildest parts of our world, Bee Rowlatt first encountered and also given us an understanding of what it is like to be faced with the proto-feminist Mary Wollstonecraft through her epistolary travel narrative, ''Letters from Norway''most terrible conditions and still have the determination and grit to carry on. This book is her homage to Wollstonecraft could be viewed as well as an attempt a taster which encourages us to pinpoint why this particular work has meant so much to her over the years seek out and helped her form her own ideas read more about feminism and motherhoodsome of the most iconic explorers. From Norway to Paris and then San Francisco, Rowlatt follows in Wollstonecraft's footsteps and asks everyone she meets how modern feminism Their stories are pretty incredible and motherhood can coincide. By using a Dictaphone, she is able to recreate her dialogues exactly, making for lively, conversational proseWoolf does them justice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883784</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen HallidayHailstone_Berlin|title=Cathedrals and Abbeys (Amazing and Extraordinary Facts)Berlin in the Cold War: 1959 to 1966|author=Allan Hailstone|rating=4.5
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|summary=What makes a cathedral? It's not automatically 'Berlin in the principal church of anywhere that is made a city – St Davids is a village of 2,000 people, and wasnCold War: 1959-1966''t always a contains almost 200 photographs taken by author/photographer Allan Hailstone in his visits to the city, but always had a cathedral, as did Chelmsfordduring this period. It's not The images provide an insight into the seat changing nature of a bishop – Glasgow has the building but not the person, divide between East and West Berlin and hasn't had a bishop since 1690. It's not a minster – that's something completely different, and if you can understand the sign glimpse into life in the delightful Beverley Minster describing city during the difference, that I saw only the other month, you're a better man I, Gunga DinCold War. Luckily this book doesn't touch on minsters much, and we can understand abbeys, so it's only the vast majority of this book that is saddled with the definition problem. It's clearly not a real problem, and those it does have are by-passable, for this successfully defines a cathedral as somewhere of major importance, fine trivia and greatly worthy of our attention.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910821047</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Zoe BramleyStewart_Marches|title= The Shakespeare TrailMarches|author=Rory Stewart|rating= 45|genre= TriviaHistory|summary= It has been 400 years since William Shakespeare, The Observer quote on the man heralded as front of the greatest writer in the English language, and Englandpaperback edition of Stewart's national poetlatest book observes ''This is travel writing at its finest.'' Perhaps, diedbut to call it 'travel writing' is to totally under-sell it. This is erudition at its finest. Shakespeare Stewart has made a profound mark on our culture the background to do this: he had an international upbringing and heritage, yet many aspects of followed his life remain father in both the Army and the shadowsForeign Office, and many places throughout England have forgotten their association with him. Herethen (to his father's, bemusement, Zoe Bramley takes the reader on a journey through hundreds of places associated with Shakespeare – many whose connections will come as a surprise to mostshall we say) became an MP. Filled with intriguing titbits of information about ShakespeareOh, Elizabethan Englandand he walked 6, and 000 miles across Afghanistan in 2002. A walk along the places that she talks about, this is no mere travel guideScottish borders should be a doddle by comparison. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445646846</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Stephen HallidayBristow China|title=London Underground (Amazing and Extraordinary Facts)China in Drag: Travels with a Cross-dresser|author=Michael Bristow
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|genre=TravelAutobiography|summary= From initial worries about smutty, enclosed air with a pungent smell to decades of human hair and engine grease causing escalator fires; from just Having worked for nine years in Bejing as a few lines connecting London termini to major jaunts out into Metro-land journalist for the suburbia-bound commuters; and from a few religious-minded if financially dodgy pioneer investment managers BBC, author Michael Bristow decided to Crossrail; the write about Chinese history of . Having been learning the world's most extensive underground system (even when a majority is actually above ground) is fascinating to many. This book is a repository of much that is entirely triviallocal language for several years, but is also pretty much thoroughly interesting.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910821039</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Julian Holland|title=Railways (Amazing and Extraordinary Facts)|rating=3|genre=Travel|summary=How and when did Laurel and Hardy replace Bristow asked his language teacher for guidance - the Duke of York (George VI)? They reopened language teacher, born in the Romneyearly fifties, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway when peacetime resumed, at whose launch the latter had officiated before the War. What's the worst offered Bristow a compelling picture of life in Communist China - but added to that can happen when you travel internationally and arrive on a London goods train with no further destination documents? Well, if you're an unidentifiable Peruvian mummy you can get buried as an unknown corpse before the invoice turns up Bristow was greatly surprised to prove you were wanted find that his language teacher also enjoyed spending his spare time in Belgiumladies clothing. After so many miles and so much drama, it's no surprise odd facts and fun trivia derive from our country's trains. This book It soon becomes clear that the tale told here is designed to be an ideal source immensely personal - yet also paints a fascinating portrait of one of quick articles and fun mini-essays for use in the smallest roomworld's most intriguing nations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910821004</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rob TempleHurst_Norfolk|title=Very British Problems AbroadOn My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks|author=John Hurst
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|genre=HumourArt|summary=MeetIt was pure serendipity: after a five-hour drive, if you haven't alreadywe were, annoyingly, left with an hour to fill in Blakeney before we could have the phenomenon of the Very British Problemkeys to our holiday cottage. In this format they're There was an art exhibition in pithy little comments (ofthe church hall, ooh, about 140 characters so we went in length, for some reason…) - and detail the minor things in life that we like nothing more than to inflate to found a major factor display of lifethe most gorgeous pictures. They can involve mannersI'd cheerfully have bought every one and hung them on our walls, staring at things until they mend themselves, hitting things ditto, or the fact but thought that nobody apart from you and I know how would have to queue properly. And if the idea hits the world outside our shores, then – well, you certainly have make do with a book full of content regarding our attitude and ineptitude abroad.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751558494</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Ben Coates|title= Why the Dutch are Different: A Journey into the Hidden Heart couple of the Netherlands |rating= 4|genre= Travel|summary= greetings cards when I know Holland in the way everyone does. Pancakes and windmills and Pot, oh my. But itsaw 's one of the few European countries I've never lived in for any period of time, and so I was intrigued to know more.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>185788633X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Tom Sperlinger|title= Romeo and Juliet in PalestineOn My Way: Teaching Under Occupation|rating= 4.5|genre= Autobiography|summary= Towards the end of Tom SperlingerNorfolk Coastal Walks's first book, he says education can open people's eyes, making them aware 'that we make assumptions all of the time, without even knowing they are assumptions.' ''Romeo and Juliet in Palestine: Teaching Under OccupationI couldn'' is a fine example of this belief in learning, an assumption-shattering book that offers a new perspective on Palestinian life not seen on the news or in the paperst resist buying it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782796371</amazonuk>
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