As we keep saying, we’re planning to do a lot of this adventure on bicycle rather than by boat. Chiefly this is because we want to be sure we can keep up with the book in terms of dates, and not be delayed by bad weather or tidal issues. Also, neither of us have suitableContinue reading “Cycling: critical questions about kit & caboodle”
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‘For miles in every direction lay a desert of sand’
I’ve been fretting about how we get from Brünsbuttel on October 5 to Wangerooge on October 15. Carruthers and Davies have their little boat ‘Dulcibella’. We do not. We’re planning to turn up on the banks of the Elbe on bicycles. Even if we did get hold of a Dulcibella-like boat (skippered by someone whoContinue reading “‘For miles in every direction lay a desert of sand’”
Clara Dollmann: ‘It was dirty weather for a young fräulein to be out alone in’
When Davies finds out on October 4 that Clara Dollmann has been looking for him, he gets very hot under the collar: ‘When I last saw him he was still so engaged, but motionless, the lantern under his left arm. and his right hand grasping the forestay and the half-knotted lanyard; his eyes staring fixedlyContinue reading “Clara Dollmann: ‘It was dirty weather for a young fräulein to be out alone in’”
The Curiously Specific Book Club 