Writers who understand landscape and evoke a sense of place fire my imagination most. There are the obvious, great travel writers – Robert Byron, Thesiger, Newby, Chatwin, but my travel itch is scratched as much by novelists such as Paul Bowles, Lawrence Durrell, Raymond Chandler and Raymond Williams. Re-reading Erskine Childers’ "The Riddle of the Sands" I’m gripped by his vision of lonely, bleak-romantic, North sea-battered tidal island resorts. The Frisian archipelago he peerlessly describes: Wangeroog, Spiekroog, Langeoog, seems muddily exotic. But with a family in tow a visit seems unlikely – I’ll have to make do with occasional trips to the Isle of Sheppey instead.

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