I love subtitled stuff as well....have no idea why. Only watched one episode so far, but have recorded the rest. The strange thing is that this is set in the year my son was born and yet I can't remember this time as being particularly fearful....whereas the Cuba crisis scared the beejesus out of me. Probably as you get older, you've seen it all before.
About 10 years ago the son of friends of mine decided to test how kind European people are by basically putting his life in their hands. He walked from his home village just outside Saisbury to Istanbul. He carried no money or cards, just a change of clothes, and some emergency food rations. In the whole trip he never went hungry, always found a bed for the night, and was met with nothing but interest and kindness wherever he went, especially in the poorer regions he passed through. He writes for a living nowadays and lives on a boat in London. Google Adam Weymouth to read his stuff. His European walk is here: http://narrative.ly/stories/europe-the-very-very-long-way/
That's amazing.... I am going to read it all, but had to pop back to post that the first act of kindness he cam e across was the guys in Alton.... a special breed if you are from that town
Chilco, that is so warming and fascinating to read. How old was he when he did that trip? He really should be writing more detail on that, unless that article is just a snapshot and there is more elsewhere. Inspiring.
The walk was in 2010, so not as long ago as I thought. He must have been early to mid 20's then I guess. As I say, he has written on many different topics and is a very inspiring young man. Here he is talking, without notes, about the walk, but more about the power of hospitality and putting trust in strangers. And this is in the light of the fact that Joanna Yeates, the woman murdered by a stranger in Bristol, was a family friend:
We had a guy in for a medical today whose name began His Royal Highness. I suppose it probably wasn't you.
Just looked on the BBC website and read that Andy Murray's father-in-law collapsed at courtside today in the Oz Open. Hope he is OK and makes a full recovery!
They were talking about Murray worrying about him....but I think the main one to worry about is a heavily pregnant woman who hears about her father's collapse on the other side of the world when her husband wasn't by her side. Pundits should be aware that not only famous people have feelings.
