Found this in a bag the other day. When my daughter was growing up, we spent a lot of time driving around the country, and not infrequently stopped for hill figures and other landscape art. (Hetty Pegler’s Tump comes to mind.) This surprisingly well preserved book was a companion for some of that, picked up at some random museum shop no doubt. Couldn’t rely on internet coverage in those days, and data wasn’t fast.
I remember we did the White Horse in Uffington, and stopped at a pub for lunch, where 14 year old her swiped a pint of Arkell’s Summer Ale out of my hand at the bar, sank half of it and declared that she would like one of those. I think we had three each over lunch while my partner, who was driving, viewed us with disgust.
It was my daughter’s birthday this month, and she’s sending photos from a cafe she found that does Movenpick ice cream, which she discovered in Hamburg when she was something like three years old. She’s in her late twenties now.
This cool little book is still available in the UK. And holy shit in the US and elsewhere too.
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