Christopher Somerville is a travel writer & 'Walking Correspondent' of The Times. His long-running ‘A Good Walk’ series appears every Saturday in the Times Weekend section. He has written some 40 books, many about his travels on foot in various parts of the world
I borrowed a dozen books on Ireland from the library and the 2021 version of this book was my favorite. There are so many beautiful hand drawn illustrations.. that always makes me happy. But also the way people visit Ireland means a lot of city hopping and the layout of this book makes it more manageable. the only things I think could be improved are a few of the photos are clearly outdated and the spine of the book has already started to come apart. A travel guide should be able to withstand a lot of use and this one just honestly didn’t physically hold up very well.
This is one of the most terribly written things I've ever attempted to read. I really want to finish as this is where we're now hoping to go for our honeymoon, but it had been a struggle to get through.