Inspirational! I love the point about the importance of including your feelings and not just the bare facts in any blog or journal of SWCP or travelling experiences. I was fortunate to complete the whole 630 miles back in 2014 and then write up my experiences. I tried to include my feelings, good and bad, and on re-reading it brings back how situations impacted on me each day. I saw the first episode of Michael Palin reliving his travel experiences over many years starting with the ground breaking "Round the world in 80 days" TV series. What shines through is the joy of the spending time with people he would never have met without travelling. The crew of the dhow that took him from Arabia to India spring to mind. The goal is to complete the journey of course but what is really beneficial to our wellbeing is what happens along the way and how we deal with it!!
Loved that, thank you so much! What an inspiration Raynor is, and such a treat at the end of the piece!! Love this book and really looking forward to visiting the path at some point.
I found the Salt Path disappointing. The book was very repetitive and too long, the writer is mostly negative about the people they meet and I wonder if her own attitude caused others to treat her badly. To say that her actions were irresponsible, doesn't mean that one is lacking compassion. It is impossible to know how would anyone react in those dreadful circumstances, and I can imagine that the very shock of it all would make one take decisions that otherwise, one would't take. However, after a whole year, having had more time to process things, they still didn't arrange their finances or properly prepared. In the UK you can get all kinds of financial help from the government and charities if you follow the right channels. So, to take a terminally ill man on that walk without his medication subjecting him to dangerous withdrawal symptoms, feeding him junk food, getting him very close to the edge of the cliffs when his legs go into spasms and can easily lose his balance and fall to his death is indeed irresponsible. Even the author recognises that at some point. I am glad everything worked out for her, and that she turned things around and got a book deal. I hope that they went back and paid what they stole including the camp site fees they didn't pay. Great that people feel inspired to walk, that's great, but please, be sensible not everyone is going to be as lucky as these two.
Your books are beautiful Raynor. I understand about ‘thin places’ in nature.
Love your books thank you so much. Please keep writing.
Thank you for enriching my life Raynor. I found your books at a stressful time! So uplifting!
Inspirational! I love the point about the importance of including your feelings and not just the bare facts in any blog or journal of SWCP or travelling experiences. I was fortunate to complete the whole 630 miles back in 2014 and then write up my experiences. I tried to include my feelings, good and bad, and on re-reading it brings back how situations impacted on me each day.
I saw the first episode of Michael Palin reliving his travel experiences over many years starting with the ground breaking "Round the world in 80 days" TV series. What shines through is the joy of the spending time with people he would never have met without travelling. The crew of the dhow that took him from Arabia to India spring to mind. The goal is to complete the journey of course but what is really beneficial to our wellbeing is what happens along the way and how we deal with it!!
Loved that, thank you so much! What an inspiration Raynor is, and such a treat at the end of the piece!! Love this book and really looking forward to visiting the path at some point.
I found the Salt Path disappointing. The book was very repetitive and too long, the writer is mostly negative about the people they meet and I wonder if her own attitude caused others to treat her badly. To say that her actions were irresponsible, doesn't mean that one is lacking compassion. It is impossible to know how would anyone react in those dreadful circumstances, and I can imagine that the very shock of it all would make one take decisions that otherwise, one would't take. However, after a whole year, having had more time to process things, they still didn't arrange their finances or properly prepared. In the UK you can get all kinds of financial help from the government and charities if you follow the right channels. So, to take a terminally ill man on that walk without his medication subjecting him to dangerous withdrawal symptoms, feeding him junk food, getting him very close to the edge of the cliffs when his legs go into spasms and can easily lose his balance and fall to his death is indeed irresponsible. Even the author recognises that at some point. I am glad everything worked out for her, and that she turned things around and got a book deal. I hope that they went back and paid what they stole including the camp site fees they didn't pay. Great that people feel inspired to walk, that's great, but please, be sensible not everyone is going to be as lucky as these two.