Abandoning the Cotswolds village that raised him, the young Laurie Lee
walks to London. There he makes a living labouring and playing the
violin. But, deciding to travel further a field and knowing only the
Spanish phrase for ‘Will you please give me a glass of water ?’, he
heads for Spain. With just a blanket to sleep under and his trusty
violin, he spends a year crossing Spain, from Vigo in the north to the
southern coast. Only the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War puts an end
to his extraordinary peregrinations ...
This week's book is As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee
