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word count 11880
date submitted 07.02.2011
date updated 30.09.2011
genres: Non-fiction, Biography, Travel, Har...
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Ms Potter & The Mathematicians' Rabbit - Random Adventures as Allie Goes Up North!

Allie Sommerville

What better way to discover your home country than travel the length of it in three weeks in a campervan? Allie can think of several...

 

Following some nerve-racking road trips abroad as chronicled in Uneasy Rider - Confessions of a Reluctant Traveller, this time Our Heroine takes to the road with her trusty Other Half to sample the delights of mainland Britain.

Fortunately their not-so-trusty campervan decides it prefers home-ground to abroad, but unfortunately there's not always a warm welcome at campsites on the way Northwards to Scotland.

Seeking out those places linked to her literary and artistic heroes, Allie is cajoled into a private viewing of priceless art-works, can't stop herself leaving a banal comment in a visitor's book and becomes Bonnie-Prince-Charlied-out in the Highlands. She is not surprised however, that Blackpool in the pouring rain at 8.30 in the morning really is the pits.

Join Allie, the slightly easier traveller, through the heart of Britain, as she realises the weather is better down South and it's cold up North.

NB:This is a work in progress, hence the final two chapters are repeats!

 
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britain, brontes, humour, scotland, travel, turner

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iandsmith wrote 215 days ago

I'm off to Cornwall next week. I always go twice a year. You wouldn't believe the tales I could tell about Cornwall and the people just discovering Britain once again now that there's another Tory recesh. Some people should just stay in London: "It should all be free really, after all we're doing them a favour staycating" There's a very nice Cream tea place we go to where she takes the £2-50 up front from bitter experience.

I overheard a conversation in a pub in Dorset at half term.

"So you've just moved here too? So have we. Where from?"
"London."
"London? No, What a coincidence."
"We still have the house in Dulwich though."
etc etc ad nauseum


Su Dan wrote 446 days ago

a somewhat unusual book, but original; intriguing and fascinating read...l shall place this on my watchlist for now...
read SEASONS...

hallyally wrote 451 days ago

Putting it on my WL, Allie.


Thanks Joanne. It's really just a first draft, and no-where near complete, but I just thought I'd put it on!

Joanna Stephen-Ward wrote 451 days ago

Putting it on my WL, Allie.

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