Christopher Somerville
Travel writer. Walks, wildlife, people. Latest book ‘Walking the Bones of Britain’ is a 3 billion year geological journey, Hebrides to Thames.
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3 weeks ago |
thetimes.com | Christopher Somerville
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Oct 17, 2024 |
thetimes.com | Christopher Somerville
It’s here again, that lovely time of year when the countryside is full of seductive colours, sharp and tangy flavours in the hedges, wintering birds returning to the estuaries and lakes, and waters racing through the gorges. Heather moors are still purple in Devon and Durham, brent geese are flocking to the Sussex marshes and their pink-footed cousins to Aberlady Bay, near Edinburgh. Blackberries have fattened in the hedgerows and elderberries hang waiting to be picked.
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Jul 26, 2024 |
thetimes.com | Christopher Somerville
When someone asked the fast bowler Fred Trueman how he felt after breaking the barrier of 300 Test wickets, he replied succinctly: “Knackered.” Over the last 15 years I’ve written 697 walks for The Times. My wife Jane and I have zigzagged across the UK, dodging cloudbursts and heatwaves, reshaping plans as the weather dictated, trudging up hills, scooting down dales among spring flowers and summer cornfields, autumn woods and winter snow.
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Jun 14, 2024 |
thetimes.com | Christopher Somerville
The River Hamps is a winterbourne, only flowing after winter rains, and on this warm cloudy summer’s day it was a bushy green channel of butterbur leaves smothering the dry stones of its bed. Setting off from humpbacked Weag’s Bridge, I followed the Manifold Way’s cycle path past the looming cliff of Beeston Tor, its grey limestone face seamed with cracks and caves. The path snaked to and fro across the dry Hamps, the verges spattered with yellow rattle and common spotted orchids.
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Jun 7, 2024 |
thetimes.com | Christopher Somerville
The Nottinghamshire countryside east of Retford lies low and rolling, a mosaic of isolated farmhouses and fields connected by an extensive network of old green lanes. Wide and rutted between ancient hedgerows full of wildlife, these grassy lanes are rare survivors, reminders of what all back-country roads were like before the advent of tarmac and the motor car. We set off from the Boat Inn by the Chesterfield Canal in Hayton under a pale blue sky, hazy with heat.
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RT @CWBookshop: We're so looking forward to welcoming one of Britain's top travel writers @somerville_c to #Chorleywood on Wed 26 March! C…
Looking forward to: Wed 26 March, 7pm, Chorleywood Library @CWBookshop, chatting to Charlie Edmonds Tue 15 April, 7pm, Stanfords Bokshop, Covent Garden @StanfordsTravel, being humorously grilled by my sister Julia Somerville Fri 24 October, 2pm, Dorchester Literary Festival https://t.co/4Kal8zrUOt
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We're so looking forward to welcoming one of Britain's top travel writers @somerville_c to #Chorleywood on Wed 26 March! Christopher will be chatting about his wonderful new book BRITAIN'S BEST WALKS covering 200 routes from his Times column, A Good Walk! https://t.co/2KVzzdHhyn https://t.co/yglLy1pVII
