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It's been a while - technical hitches accompanied by my own inability to sort things out have resulted in pollyevans.com being off-air for a few weeks. But I'm back, floating around the ether.

On a more earthly level, I'm just back from a trip to Northumberland, where I spent a lovely week in Alnwick, in a delightful holiday cottage: www.loanendcottage.co.uk. I'll come clean and admit that it's owned by a friend of mine, but it really is very nice and I highly recommend the cottage as well as walks on wide-open Northumberland beaches followed by a pint of local ale and a pot of prawns in a pub. And for a rainy day there's Alnwick castle. Did you know that Harry Hotspur (that's the same Hotspur that Shakespeare made into a character in one of his plays) was 4th Lord Percy of Alnwick back in 13-something. He first rode into battle at the age of eight, and was knighted at the age of 12. Some people peak early.

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Polly

Recent articles

  Following in the footsteps of a trailblazer...but not on a camel (in: Journalism)
May 5, 2010
Independent on Sunday, 18 April 2010. It was 150 years ago that John Stuart reached a part of Australia that other colonialists had failed to reach. Polly Evans retraced his journey, only with a few more home comforts
  If you go down to the woods... (in: Journalism)
Jul 12, 2009

Sunday Times Travel, May 2009 ...You don't want to end up as bear bait. Polly Evans contemplates the Yukon wilderness from a canoe – and finds distance lends enchantment.
  March 2009 (in: Newsletter Archive)
Jul 10, 2009

Spring is in the air, and I have hayfever. In February. Yes, it's ridiculous. I also have unsightly gashes across my shins following a truly extraordinary accident in which I became tangled up with the leash of a small dog as I was running down the river path near my home...
  Three things at your peril (in: Competition)
Jul 10, 2009

Three things at your peril; sex on the beach in Saudi; punching a copper in Bulgaria, and disturbing a Frenchman having drinks on his yacht. We did the last...
  Travels in Mao's China (in: Competition)
Jul 10, 2009

I was travelling in those days to take secret aid to the churches who were very underground then as if the local Christians were caught  running a house church the penalties didn't bear thinking about...
  To find Alaska's wildlife, follow the pipeline (in: Journalism)
Apr 26, 2009

Independent on Sunday, 26 April 2009. The oil industry is providing an unlikely aid to tourism in this US state. Polly Evans takes the Dalton Highway into the heart of the wilderness
  First Time In...Dublin (in: Journalism)
Mar 20, 2009

Voyager, February 2009. It must be something they put in the Guinness: Dublin has bred more than its fair share of pen-wielding, string-strumming, hell-raising geniuses...
  The Hospedaje (in: Competition)
Mar 3, 2009

Our Hospedaje in Puyuhaupi was cheap, and I would love to have said cheerful but in reality was pretty grim. The walls were made of plywood, the gas cooker dropped in by plane, the patchy linoleum floor (at one time a flower patterned design now indecipherable) was almost level and the ceiling and door lintel was low as my forehead will testify...
  March 2009 (in: Books of the Month)
Mar 3, 2009

A few months ago, my friend Gavin’s mum Pat very kindly sent me a book through the post that she thought I’d enjoy. It was Will Randall’s Botswana Time. I liked it immensely, and told her so – and then, a few weeks later, another book dropped through the letterbox and onto the mat: Indian Summer by the same author. So given the many happy hours I've been spending on the sofa with Will Randall, so to speak, those are the two books that I’m reviewing this month.
  On top of the world (in: Journalism)
Feb 7, 2009

Condé Nast Traveller, March 2009. And now for something completely different: how about a high-latitude escape for spring?
 
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