Posted by Peter Hyland on October 23, 2013 at 09:42:15 user Peter_H.
In Reply to: Re: Favourites posted by Andy Bolger on October 23, 2013 at 08:56:08:
I think I may have read somewhere that he wrote it before he'd sailed down channel himself.
That may be true. We do know that AR and Evgenia voyaged to Alexandria early in 1932 (the year he wrote PD) aboard the steamer Scottish Prince and in the Autobiography he describes "plodding down the Portuguese coast". It was apparently Evgenia's first sea passage since the Baltic. However, this wasn't "sailing" in the PD sense. Did AR actually "sail" down the Channel when much younger? I don't recall anything in the Autobiography about this.
PS - Hello again 'Beardbiter' - are you still resident up at Buxton?