![]() But we never quite connected and I think Manchester has always been a little bit prickly about that despite most of my barbs being intended to be humorous. I do know that Manchester is a great place and I realise it is my fault, not its. To my great surprise readers are usually very forgiving and you can be pretty outspoken about their home towns – although that is not always the case. Looking back, most people seem to remember Notes from a Small Island as a much more genial and affable survey than it actually is. But where next? Keep going west through Oxford and on to Cornwall? But then how do you get back to East Anglia? It is all kind of messy, and so the book has no logical progression other than being very generally from south to north. It seemed to me that Dover was the right place to start because that was where I first made landfall. Wherever you are you can go so many different directions. But in Britain there is no natural way to progress. I don’t imagine anyone has ever done an equivalent book about the United States that doesn’t start on one coast and finish on the other. In Australia you would go around the outside and then dart into the middle to get to Uluru. For most countries there is an obvious route. ![]() But simply organising that tour was not as easy as I had anticipated. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |