If anyone is driving in the driving rain, and sees a bedraggled figure in a layby heading north on the M1 motorway, please stop and give me a lift.

“Man used to gain experience by travelling the world, by crossing uncharted territories. In the 1800s it would take three years to cross Europe, and would require the use of a steam locomotive, a pack of huskies and three sixty gallon drums of vaseline.” “In modern times, advances in technology have made the world smaller…”

Home of the fabled Loughborough Well Endowed School. A university town renowned for its student athletes studying worm counting and spelling. Home to more than the occasional goth. A market town scandalized by the gossip of one of its leading educational establishments. I had never been asked for the time in an internet cafe before