Monday, February 3, 2020

NEITHER HERE NOR THERE - Bill Bryson

























Sub titled travels in Europe.  The only trouble with this is Bryson has spread himself a bit thin trying to cover too much ground rather than pick three or five countries and give them a really good going over.

Instead he does twenty two countries or cities and they really only get a couple of pages each which is a shame because he goes very interesting places.

Still lots of humour but a bit bare on the facts/ history side of things which he is normally so good at slipping in along the journey.

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