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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointing book, 5 Jan 2005
We bought this book because most pub-based walks in books are too short for our liking, and this promised to be better.
On the plus side, the walks are a little longer than usual, and are reasonably well described, but there are several downsides.First, the choice of pubs is dubious. So far we have only tried one walk on which the pub is described as having excellent food - in fact it was an OK pub, but with very ordinary food. Acceptable as a place to stop for lunch on a walk, but not worth seeking out. This seems unlikely to be an isolated example as another walk with a lunch stop at Mickleham favours the Running Horses, which is a good enough pub, over the nearby King William IV, which truly is excellent. Second, the author assumes that we are all petrolheads. Although most of the walks (or variants of them) could be done fairly easily using public transport, no attempt is made to give guidance to those who do not have a car, or would prefer to leave it at home - even in the case of the walk that starts and ends in a car park next to a railway station! Using public transport requires a little more planning - but this is supposed to be a book for the adventurous, not the dismally carbound. Third, and most seriously, the distances seem to be wrong. Having arrived back suspiciously early from what was said to be a walk of 9 3/4 miles we measured it on the OS map, to find that we made it almost exactly 8 miles. Another walk, checked at random, comes out at about 9 1/2 miles on the map, as against the book's 11 miles. Pity about the faults, as the book does meet a real need.
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