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Subject: swallows and hills Author: Eleanor [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: Wednesday 29 July, 2009 03:55:36 I just wanted to express my appreciation for the two books of yours which I know: I have just returned from a campsite near St. Valerie, N. France, teeming with swallows which were nesting in every available space (even inside the gents' loos), and watched them ducking and diving in their scores whilst reading your wonderful African adventure. What a fortunate choice of holiday reading - but it was not entirely coincidental: two years ago, I read 'Running for the Hills' because I, too, was brought up in the Brecon Beacons, though in a village rather than a remote farm. Reading it was like shedding years in days and stepping back into my own childhood which, like yours, was free, happy and outward-bound until I was sent away to school in '83. I think there is something about having lived in and having loved that part of the world which heightens the senses and makes you feel alive in the present - I still feel weightlessness and excitement whenever I go back there which I don't experience to the same degree anywhere else. But my hat off to you for your remarkable ability to put into words everything I will always feel about those hills. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]