"Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography."
-Arthur Smith
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"The Romantic poets were the prototype ramblers, and I've often found myself following in their footsteps - although perhaps not all of their footsteps since a typical walk for Samuel T. Coleridge might last two days and cover 145km.“
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"The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that's about it."
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