Archive for 2008

Date/Time/Venue/Contact Route Book Books of the Year
December 18th/Priory CP/10.30/JH Circumnavigation of Bedford (The Anchor, Goldington Green) The Road Home, Rose Tremaine  
November 27th/Priory CP/10.30/RB Bedford - Southill (White Horse) Reading Turgenev from Two Lives, William Trevor  
November 6th/Mowsbury Park West/10,30/MT Bedford - Milton Earnest - Radwell - Felmersham - Odell (The Bell) Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie  
October 16th/Priory CP/10.30/PDy Bedford - Great Barford - Easton Socon - St Neots (The Barley Mow) The Loved One, Evelyn Waugh   - -
September 25th/Prebend St Bridge/10.30/LW Bedford - Astwood (The Old Swan) The Ice Road, Gillian Slovo  
September 4th/Bedford Station/10.45/LW Bedford - Flitwick - Steppingley - Everton- Toddington (Sow and Pigs) The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene  
August 14th/Bedford Station/ 10.45/JH Bedford - Millbrook (train) - Steppingley - Eversholt - Woburn - Great Brickhill (Old Red Lion) - canalside - Fenny Stratford (train) - Bedford. The Inheritance of Loss, Keiran Desai  
July 24th/Mowsbury Park west/10.30/RB Bedford - Keysoe (White Horse) Resistance, Owen Sheers  
July 4th/Prebend St Bridge/10.30/JH Bedford - Kempston - Wooton - Lidlington ( Green Man ) - route 51 Mr Pip, Lloyd Jones (Bougainville in 1990s)   + +
June 12th/Priory CP/10.30/PD Bedford - Cardington - Haynes - Maulden (The White Hart) To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf  
May 22nd/Priory CP/10.30/LW To Cock at Broom Steep Approach to Garbadale, Iain Banks  
May 1st/Priory CP/10.30/MT To Tempsford (The Wheatsheaf) The Reader, Bernard Schlink   + + +
April 10th/Prebend St Bridge NE corner/LW To Astwood via Carlton and Turvey (The Old Swan) Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Paul Torday  
March 13th/10.50 train/JH Bletchley - Loughton - New Bradwell - Great Linford (Nag's Head) - canal side - Fenny Stratford Hard Times, Charles Dickens  
Feb. 21st/10.51 train/JH Bedford - Great Barford - Bushmead - Easton Socon (The White Horse)  Winter's Bone, Daniel Woodrell  - -
Jan. 24th/l0.30/Priory CP/RB  To White Horse, Southill  Grace Notes, Bernard MacLaverty   +