Martin Hesp
Wills Neck is the highest hill on The Quantocks. It’s a wonderful eminence that gives the walker great panoramas of Somerset and beyond - from it you can see the Brendon Hills, Exmoor, the Blackdown Hills, the Mendips and the Welsh Mountains
Martin Hesp remembers a fantastic beach cook-up he did with North Devon’s Dan the Fishman 2 years ago - it was a celebration of Christmas in the run-up to December 25th - and, as Dan says, everyone should enjoy a beach picnic in the depths of winter
A simple hike done to Cogden Beach on the Dorset Coast - Martin Hesp walked the littoral after a visit to the organic outfit at magical Tamarisk Farm
The place where desert meets a green and watery paradise - Salalah in Oman. Martin Hesp visits the deep damp valleys underneath the ‘cloud cliffs’ that keep the coastal plain around the city of Salalah on the Oman-Yemen border moist
Martin Hesp recalls a few days he spent wandering around Bari on Italy’s east coast
A lovely, easy, scenic circular walk from Flushing around to Mylor on the Fal Estuary
Robin Turner talks fish at Christmas - advice and how to order the shellfish and other marine delights for the festive period
The Lemon Tree Forest is a novel set partly in Greece and partly in West Somerset’s Brendon Hills. Here writer Martin Hesp reproduces a single chapter after hearing about the death of a rather lonely middle-aged man on the other side of the hills.
The walk from Lulworth Cove to Durdle Dor on the Dorset coast must be one of the most popular hikes in all of England - best do it in winter then, far from the madding crowds, says Martin Hesp
If the Festive Season is going to be a different this year, why not have some experimental fun and barbecue your Christmas dinner
