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Blue River gets floppier covers |
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My account of travelling down the Danube, Blue River Black Sea, is out in paperback from Black Swan. Various people have said nice things: Sunday Times described it as one of the top half dozen travel books of the year, Daily Telegraph said that Patrick Leigh Fermor would approve, FT talks of the "pleasantly self-deprecating sense of humour... that makes a good travel writer". More info
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Jill Turton I'm a freelance food and travel writer based in York. After a career in television as a network documentary producer I began food and travel writing in 1994 and now specialise in travel within the UK, especially Yorkshire and the north.
I review restaurants for a variety of publications including the Yorkshire Post, Square Meal and the top national food guides.
I have lived and worked in Yorkshire for many years and know the north of England inside out. I have written...
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"For habitual travellers to Greece the Peloponnese also offers something of a time machine. Fifteen or twenty years you could still see old men going to their fields on donkey back, old women clad in black preparing vegetables on their doorsteps, main roads blocked by flocks of goats, olives being picked with no more aid than a triangular wooden ladder and a big stick, tractors made from converted lawnmowers, and village shops seemingly unchanged since the 1940s. In the Peloponnese you still can."
Andrew Bostock, Greece: The Peloponnese, (Bradt).
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