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Easy returns. Back to top. Eric Newby began his travelling career in a perambulator commuting between Hammersmith Bridge, where his parents lived, and such seaside resorts as Frinton.
Not at all what i expected, in fact very boring. Newby was a sailor in the British Navy.
Start by marking “Round Ireland in Low Gear” as Want to Read: Having decided to explore Ireland by bicycle, Eric and Wanda Newby set out one December - not the best time to ride a bike around the highways and by-ways of the Emerald Isle, even when protected by thermal underwear. Round Ireland in Low Gear Paperback – October 1, Having decided to explore Ireland by bicycle, Eric and Wanda Newby set out one December - not the best time to ride a bike around the highways and by-ways of the Emerald Isle, even when protected by thermal underwear.
He was captured and held in a POW camp in For nine years he worked in London's fashion industry. From the Cliffs of Moher to St Brigid's Vat, Dublin, the Aran Islands, the Ring of Kerry and Croagh Patrick, their rainsoaked journey is beset by minor disaster ranging from ferocious storms to even more ferocious dogs.
Trips to remote castles, holy wells and splendid ruins in the west of Ireland are enlivened by lashings of Guinness and tea, and by the often antic behavior of the locals met in omnipresent pubs. The Irish, on the other hand, keep abandoning their picturesque and damp thatched cottages as fast as they can for the comfort of soulless modern bungalows. Media reporter, reviewer, producer, guest booker, blogger. Slowly Down the Ganges. Every rainstorm the couple encountered and there appears to have been at least one per day is described in nightmarish detail; every bleak and dreary town they arrived at and then hastened to flee is gleefully evoked for the reader.
Along the way they come across a moving, miracle-working stature of the Virgin, spectacular ruins and the traces of twentieth-century violence, in between stops for Guinness, tea and soda bread. Woven into the narrative is a wealth of information about Irish history and custom - hermits, horse-fairs, peat-cutting and poetry are all touched on in this deft and dazzling blend of myth, fact and quirky details. And, as usual with eric Newby, this beguiling account is enlivened by a cast of eccentric and utterly engaging characters. Round Ireland in low gear.