Travel / journey books - UK based

[mike80]

Currently reading One man and his bike, where the author cycles around the British coastline. Very lighthearted, easy reading but enjoying the authors descriptions and views of places I've been (and places I haven't!). Looking for more in this type of style where people journey around the UK.

Bill Bryson is the obvious one, and I've read some of his, but wonder if there are any other reccomended?

[Bill]

Raw Spirit by Iain Banks is really good, not just a travel book though, it's part travel, part whisky and part petrolhead.

[Pothole]

not UK, but both Tony Hawks's Round Ireland with a Fridge and Pete McCarthy's McCarthy's Bar are good ones about Ireland. Relatable and funny.

[mike80]

Cool, whisky and petrolhead sounds good aswell!

Non UK recommendations are good to have as well.

[coppice]

Stuart Maconie's books are excellent.Funny, opinionated and well written . Better than the rather over rated Bil Bryson I think

Our best travel writer - my favourite in any case - is the wonderful Jonathan Raban. Most of his works are about his adopted home , the USA, but make superb reading . Old Glory especially - about sailing down the MIssissippi in a small boat.

[mike80]

Thanks, will check them out.

[matc]

George Mahood - Free Country is worth a read; two blokes who get from Lands End to John O’Groats without spending a penny. I really enjoyed it, lots of funny bits.

Read a couple of his other books too - Operation Ironman was good and Not Tonight Josephine, which is about travelling across America.

[W124Bob]

Bill Bryson , Notes from a smal Island(1995) and a follow up ,The road to Little Dribbling(2015) .An interesting contrast as he didn't live here when he wrote the first , read back to back.

[mike80]

matc said:

George Mahood - Free Country is worth a read; two blokes who get from Lands End to John O’Groats without spending a penny. I really enjoyed it, lots of funny bits.

Cheers, just finished the last one so going to start this today. Interested to see how anyone can go that far without a piss...

[FiF]

Simon Armitage Walking Home, walks the Pennine Way North to South doing poetry readings to try and subsidise his trip.

There's a follow up book on the South West Coast Path, Walking Away, though haven't read that one.

[Stan the Bat]