Christopher Somerville
@somerville_c
Travel writer, Times columnist. Walks, wildlife, people. New book ‘Walking the Bones of Britain’ (pub. 24 Aug) is a geological journey, Hebrides to Thames.
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Thanks, Paul Weston - I’m delighted you enjoyed it. Such a vast and technical topic, but the underlying story of fire, upheavals, drownings and emergence of life is the most dramatic I’ve ever come across. It’s just a question of excavating it from the strata of jargon!
Thanks for mentioning my book, Paul Cheney. Hope you are enjoying WBoB. It was an epic journey of learning and enjoyment, trying to unearth the amazing 3-billion-year story from its crust of jargon.
Perfect Easter Sunday stroll Christopher Somerville recommends this circular route along #ThamesPath from Hambleden to Henley via Aston. Views of the Chilterns and 🍻 🍔 at The Flower Pot pub. It's a great route from Henley too. Chilterns Treasures ExperienceHenley
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Thanks so much, Ben Aitken, for an excellent chat at Destinations Show: The Holiday & Travel Show yesterday, and for racing to get there after transport calamities! Really enjoyed your company, and appreciated the trouble you took to read my book and find interesting questions.
A #Lincolnshire #walk by Christopher Somerville in last Saturday’s The Times and The Sunday Times takes in countryside, churches, woods and a river Visit Lincolnshire - check it out on his website: bit.ly/3OmpPcN
Hoorah, Faversham Literary Festival ! Really looking forward to it. ‘Walking the Bones of Britain: a 3 Billion Year Journey from Outer Hebrides to Thames Estuary’, published by Doubleday Books .
Thank you for your lovely words to frame the song, Sara Mohr-Pietsch. It was just a plain little guitar song until June Tabor and her musicians transformed it into something haunting. I love the piano like drops of icy water, and Andy Cutting’s ‘barely there’ melodeon.
Twenty of Christopher Somerville favourite #walks for the New Year in The Times and The Sunday Times includes Chalton Down Visit Hampshire and Ellastone with the Weaver Hills Enjoy Staffordshire - bit.ly/48pdBIl
Thanks, Ivan McDouall! Glad you enjoyed it, wet and mud notwithstanding. That Arlingham peninsula in a snaky bend of the Severn is wonderfully moody, isn’t it? Happy New Year!
Glad you like my writing, CPRE The countryside charity! Lathkildale is a remarkable limestone gorge, especially when the river is roaring through in flood.
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And thank you, Gail Gail Simmons , for being such a relaxed and interesting interviewee Wells Festival of Literature yesterday, and congratulations again on your superb account of your pilgrimage, #BetweenTheChalkAndTheSea .
20 Autumn walks across the UK … all fantastically researched and mapped out by Christopher Somerville in The Times and The Sunday Times Weekend Section. One to pull out and keep …