A stroll on Blue Anchor beach towards the alabaster cliffs, with Martin Hesp
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A stroll on Blue Anchor beach towards the alabaster cliffs, with Martin Hesp
An account of the Cutcombe Christmas Fatstock Show - this one’s from a report Martin Hesp wrote in 2016
With Christmas on its way Martin Hesp is reminded of his normal routine which is to purchase a large turkey from the December Cutcombe Fatstock Show on Exmoor - and one year this meant bringing it into the house past the ashes of his old friend Roy Tassell
Making winter beer - the art of traditional ale making in winter
There’s a glacier in Iceland which covers a live volcano with 900 feet of solid ice. one it will blow its top and all that ice will melt in hours causing enormous problems across the Atlantic. Martin Hesp went up there one cold summer’s day for a look around
Martin Hesp has been walking the high ridge of the Quantock Hills in a gale - and shooting a little video as he goes - talking about the Shute Festival and his novel, The Last Broomsquire
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
Martin Hesp recalls eating camel stew in a roadside cafe in a Middle Eastern desert and pondering over the way we get illogical ideas about other people
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 takes a walk around his misty valley just after lockdown
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
Jade Mountain is a paradise resort hotel in southern St Lucia - and Martin Hesp recalls spending an afternoon at a cookery class there
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
