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“ Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography. ”

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It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.

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I've noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn't going to do anyway so here's something more positive. I'm going to retrain as a Latin teacher in a provincial public school.

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Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and entertaining, where vivid writing and research replace self-indulgence and sloppy prose.

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Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'

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