Despite walking nearly 25 miles, I still hadn’t reached Leighton Buzzard, site of childhood holidays and source of my first Robert E. Howard Conan book (as described earlier). I had gone to sleep in the MK hotel to the sounds of drunken revelry turning nasty, closing-time shouting and what sounded like barking police dogs from [...]
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A Town Called Buzzard: revisiting Leighton
Posted in Accounts of the walk, tagged buckinghamshire, bucks, conan, leighton buzzard, milton keynes, mk, reh, robert e. howard on July 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Lush tracks hidden: Buckingham to Linslade
Posted in Accounts of the walk, tagged betsey wynne, cimmeria, conan, linslade, milton keynes, mk, reh, robert e. howard, soulbury, stewkley, swanbourne, winslow on July 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Wanting an early start, I walked down the empty Midsummer Boulevard to get the first X5 bus to Buckingham at 5.50. The heatwave seemed to have broken, the air an aspic gray.
The bus was quite full of long-haul travellers headed for Oxford and early-shift workers. As we sped along the A421 I realised that I [...]
Conan in Bedfordshire
Posted in sidetrips, tagged atlantis, ballard, conan, encore, milton keynes, mk, moorcock, psychogeography, ramada, wetherspoons on July 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The last two days of walking have been triangulated against some kind of literature. The next will be no exception, as I am heading for Leighton Buzzard where, back in about 1974, I bought a book that has retained great meaning for me over the years – Conan of Cimmeria. This paperback, which I have [...]
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