Patrick Leigh Fermor – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Migrants entering Slovenia from Croatia

Plus Gibbon and Leigh Fermor on migrations past.

The Kelston Turnpike

Bonus: Haile Selassie did NOT keep his lions in the basement of Fairfield House, Bath.

Patrick Leigh Fermor on taking a town for the first time

In response to this site’s airport walks, as well as perhaps some other triumphal entries, HtH has kindly contributed the opening of the last chapter of Mani – Travels in the Southern Peloponnese by Patrick Leigh Fermor: The timing, manner and mood of a private assault on a new town are a serious matter. If…