Any Porth in a Storm The Long-Distance Walk that Goes South

Any Porth in a Storm The Long-Distance Walk that Goes South Synopsis

Any Porth in a Storm – the long-distance walk that goes south is the story of an escape from the City to the country amid economic uncertainty and growing urban homelessness. In a brief moment of sanity an international public health worker, armed with a tent, sleeping bag and latrine trowel, leaves London to begin a literary and artistic walk of the 1015 kilometre (give or take) South West Coast Path from Somerset to Dorset. It was to be an exploration of the landscape, history, literature and art which make up the Path; to follow in the footsteps of Le Carré, du Maurier, Woolf, Christie, Turner, Hepworth and Jeremy Paxman. The few plans he had wound together in haste, began to unravel when faced with extreme weather, time, tide, excessive packing, failing electronic equipment, the military and unpredictable interpersonal relations. This was no journey of self-discovery, it was simply to reach the end in one piece. Most importantly, he took pains to ensure that nobody would be inspired to repeat it. Ruins, the entry route of a past pandemic, ubiquitous death and dereliction, extreme weather, and refugees from the city betrayed the insecurities of our own world. All societies are vulnerable to collapse, and those which think they are not - perhaps more so. The question was whether we had the foresight to recognise the coming storm and enough sufficiently skilled people to survive it. And would any of them will be able to make Nutella® from scratch? A story of loss, dereliction, improbable coincidence, hope and responsible defaecation.