Best Foot Forward: A Million Steps or More: One Woman's Solo Hike from La Rochelle to Lake Geneva - Couverture souple

Kelly, Susie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1838278656 ISBN 13 : 9781838278656

Editeur : Blackbird Digital Books, 2022

Synopsis

One funny woman's epic 500-mile solo hike across France

Hilarious true story of two adventurous women old enough to know better.

'A book to inspire' – Good Housekeeping Magazine

'There are a handful of authors who will achieve that elusive trick of making you laugh out loud. For me it's James Herriot, Bill Bryson & Susie Kelly.' French Entrée Magazine

***** 'This is one of the best travel books I have read to date. I thoroughly enjoyed reading every drop of it.' – Vine Voice Reviewer

***** 'Perfect for the Francophile, the armchair adventurer, and the lover of good literature for this is surely literature.' – Vine Voice Reviewer'

***** 'Kindle & a glass of red and Susie Kelly - there is little to better it in the travel writing arena.' – Goodreads

At the age of 52, Susie walks, all alone, across France 500 miles from the West to the East, with her tent on her back.

She hands over her French farmhouse full of assorted animals to a total stranger from Texas she finds online.

As Susie doggedly tramps over unknown terrain from La Rochelle to Geneva, frequently lost and either too hot or too cold, Texan Jennifer copes heroically with lost dogs, erratic electricity, old men hiding in bushes, and a language she cannot speak.For each of them it is a life-changing experience.

Both find their resourcefulness and ingenuity tested to the limit as, in their own ways, they explore and enjoy the culture, cuisine and people of Europe’s most fascinating country.

If you enjoyed THE SALT PATH by Raynor Winn get this. Replace the salt for sunflowers... and many more laughs!

In an attempt to withstand the relentlessly penetrating cold of a French January, I had taken to marching briskly around the wintry lanes and byways in my locality for several hours each day. This tended to be marginally warmer than staying in the house. But when you have started from and arrived at the same point for about the thirtieth time, you begin to feel that there may be more to life than going round in loops, and it was this that led me to decide to walk, instead, from one place to a completely different one. So I thought I would walk round the whole perimeter of the country, but once I looked at the map I could see it would take me a year. On the other hand the nearest coastal point west of home was La Rochelle, which, if you drew a straight line eastwards, lined up handily with Lake Geneva, only about four hundred miles away, a journey which I estimated should take about six weeks. It was not a project to undertake rashly, so I thought about it very carefully for twenty minutes before going to visit my friend and neighbour Gloria, to announce my intentions.
‘Guess what, I’m going to walk across France.’
Gloria liked to get straight to the point. ‘When?’ she asked.
‘1st May. The weather will be just right then.’
‘Good for you,’ she replied.
And that was it, really. I started planning. It couldn’t require anything more than a bit of common sense I thought.
There were a few potential snags – I’d never hiked anywhere further than a three-mile radius from my house before, nor pitched a tent; I didn’t and never would understand how to use a compass. However, by far the largest obstacle to the venture were the animals: two elderly mares, six dogs, a cat, two parrots, some fish and a pair of killer geese, who were going to need someone to take care of them while I was away. My husband Terry couldn’t possibly leave his business unattended in England for several weeks; and, well, as a matter of fact, I hadn’t actually mentioned the project to him...

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Born a Londoner, travel writer Susie spent most of the first 25 years of her life in Kenya. In 2014, her memoir I Wish I Could Say I Was Sorry about an abusive childhood growing up in post-war London and Kenya, was a US digital bestseller. She now lives in south-west France with her husband and assorted animals. She believes that her explosive temper is a legacy from her Irish-American grandfather, but has no idea who to blame for her incompetence as a housewife. Susie Kelly is the Patron of the Charroux International Literary Festival.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Blackbird Digital Books
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1838278656
• ISBN 13: 9781838278656
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 218
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg