The A303: Highway to the Sun

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All the stories are threaded together by the A303 and they're beguiling, but I'd have liked more of the present-day people, like Annie and her famous tea bar. Traveling down the road in an ancient Mini Traveller car from the Sixties, he came across as someone prone to mugging in front of the camera for no apparent reason: what mattered was not so much the sites, but his reaction to them. So I have an emotional attachment to it for many of the reasons Tom Ford highlighted in his introduction.

We try to add new providers constantly but we couldn't find an offer for "A303: Highway to the Sun" online.A nostalgic experience, informative, humorous, charming, but pervaded by the bitter-sweet scent of regret' Daily Mail 'Fort has an eye for the quirky, the absurd, the pompous and a style that, like the road, is always on the move' Sunday Telegraph 'A lovely book. A nostalgic experience, informative, humorous, charming, but pervaded by the bittersweet scent of regret' - Daily Mail You may also be interested in. When you die, perhaps you should get your family to put your ashes in a salt cellar attached to the bumper of a car and scatter you the entire length of the A303. Interesting book around the A303 road which for anyone based in the east or south east of England is the main route to Devon and Cornwall.

A road I drove many times between 1987 and 2015,originally related to my then gliding club and then latterly because my last job was at Boscombe Down Airfield within spitting distance of the 'Ancestor' statue at Solstice Business Park. Forts book is also a mediation on the motor car itself: it is a force for darkness or for liberation?thanks for the great graphics on the cover and the period road map inside, all sets the mood perfectly! There are quotes from Thomas Malory about King Arthur and his trip to Amesbury; visits to grand houses such as Montacute; perorations on the state of British farming.

I would go so far as to say that Fort is to the A303 as Jerome K Jerome was to the Thames in his time. Fort is uncomfortable with modern motoring (for the tv series which was the progenitor to this, he travelled the road in a Morris Minor) and it's clear he prefers reflecting back n the golden age of motor travel pre-M1, rather than the modern behmoth. But Tom Fort managed it, in his evocation of those roads taken on family holidays, in the days when parents drove with their children every year to the same holiday cottage, via the same route. Fort acknowledges that progress has to be made – he even makes a case, which I am too sentimental to endorse without reservation, for the Winchester bypass which so energised the anti-roads lobby back in the 1990s.Like the road, the book is unsatisfactory in places - spending a bit too long on well-documented Stonehenge whereas more time could have been spent on some of the obscure sites and sights. Getting to and from each place means descriptions of the road and the history of the road itself in that section. There again, if Tom Fort had wanted to accurately represent the experience of travelling along the A303 this film would have ground to a halt for 45 minutes somewhere near Stonehenge, so it wasn't hard to forgive him some wishful thinking. M Godding Books Ltd is an internet book business running from Wiltshire and sending books all over the world every working day. My brother still holds the family record at shortest time for 276 miles in 3hrs 45mins, and I think I hold the three longest times, all well over 10 hours for the same distance.