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Following Paddy’s Footsteps: Two European “Road Books”

A long time ago, a friend introduced me to the story of the British writer, Patrick Leigh Fermor. At the age of 18 in 1933, being both charming and restless, he decided to walk alone overland from the Hook of Holland to Istanbul. He planned, if that is the word for it, on sleeping in… Continue reading Following Paddy’s Footsteps: Two European “Road Books”