Travelling Light: Journeys Among Special People and Places

Synopsis

Alastair Sawday's Love Of Adventure Began As A Teenager In The 1960s, When He Set Sail On The Rms Queen Mary For Massachusetts. Then Came Teaching In St Lucia, And On To Trinidad And Guyana. A Passion For Exploration And A Fierce Commitment To The Environment Were Set In Motion. The Lifeblood Of Sawday's Work Is A Relentless Pursuit Of Authenticity, Of Natural Home-grown Resources, Of The Joy And Humour In Quirks Of Humanity, Culture And Landscape - Beyond Bland Comfort And Anonymity. He Writes Of The Eccentricities Of Guests, Hotels And Their Owners: The Lutyens-style House Near Delhi Named Tikli Bottom; The Chaotic Old Spanish Farmhouse, With Fitful Electricity And Life-affirming Conversation; A Parisian Café-theatre Whose Elderly Waitresses Provided The Can-can As After Dinner Entertainment - And An Ingenious Essex Cabin Floating On Old Fertiliser Barrels. We Meet The Fellow Guest Whose Phobia Of Draughts Meant She Dined Swaddled In Plastic Bags; And An Irish Hotelier Who Insisted Her Guests Accompany Her To A Most Unusual Burial. From The Majesty Of Venice, Turkey And Greece, To The 'baroque Flourish' Of Sicily, The Lush, Unspoiled Valleys Of Ty-mynydd In Wales, And The Rugged Beauty Of Porthcurno, Cornwall - Travelling Light Celebrates The Qualities That Have Made Sawday's Quidebooks Unique: Rich Peculiarity Of Location And Warm, Eclectic Hospitality.