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Sandy / Pekky
Hey Phil,
I have read and enjoyed your work. It’s fortunate that you decide on your travel plans before the pandemic. Otherwise you could not have beaten Phileas, with all the quarantines in place!
I have enjoyed the adventure you had in Poland. And I was intrigued by your traveling partner, Sofia, in Day 5 Siberia. Perhaps you have a proper introduction done in the earlier chapters but this is me, your friend, showing a little concern and much curiosity here.
And I must say I have relished every word in Day 15 SZX & HKG because Hong Kong has been and will always have a special place in my heart too. Many of the places mentioned can be vividly pictured in my mind’s eye.
Day 30 Pacific Ocean has caught me by surprise, despite my work in this industry, I didn’t realize that we can actually catch a ride on cargo ship. Yes, I do recall you mentioning this in one of our conversations many moons ago.
To sum up, I appreciate your British humor, the honest insight into your thoughts, feelings and the sharing of bits and pieces of your personal history I could not have known otherwise.
However, some thoughts came rather randomly in your book. Perhaps this makes it more real, I am a reader of fictions and may not be the best to comment on this…
Other than that, I would love to see more pictures of your travel as inserts in respective chapters. And I would think a pictorial representation of the route you have taken against the journey made by Phileas would be fun… you can include the dates here! And finally, monetary budget of your trip in the appendix or at the end of the book may also be something of interest to some readers. Tips you have included at the end of some chapters appeal to this group ?
I’m looking forward to your publication. So, do keep us posted!
Way to go, Phil!
Great work. A lovely style and lots of insights, characters, moments and the drip, drip, drip, of information and the great, continual, tension of the competition – taking on Mr P. I’ve read all of the Michael Palin’s plus all Bill Bryson’s – love this kind of writing so really enjoyed your story and your great idea of a new take on the race. Presently I’m racing to finish my Master of Philosophy thesis which has been a big struggle. What the thesis writing demands – a bit like Hemmingway and Orwell – is the tightness/tautness of the sentence. Cutting out all redundant words – making sentences active – ‘the dog bit the man’ rather than ‘the man was bitten by the dog’. Passive writing is apparently a bad habit of mine, my supervisor tells me – frequently. I heard recently that Hemmingway was taught to treat the adjective as the enemy. I have found that once you look at a sentence and remove any word that is not ‘paying its way’ the sentence becomes so much stronger and leads inexorably to the next. Not sure if any of that is useful but anyway. The only other thing I thought you could be an idea is a reflective contrast to the world journey experience – reflections on the past, childhood, Phileas Fog’s journey itself, living in Greece, Battersea, UK, family, ageing, children, love etc. Would the journey and the reflections serve as contrastable companions? But hey, I think what you have written is so comprehensive and so varied and such a great adventure there will sure to be so many avid readers – me and mine amongst them. Congratulations Phil it’s a great piece of writing and another wonderful adventure all of its own. You should be really pleased. You have a lovely style and there is so much to say. All best mate. Let me know if there is anything more I acn do. Cheers Sean.
Hey Phil,
I have read and enjoyed your work. It’s fortunate that you decide on your travel plans before the pandemic. Otherwise you could not have beaten Phileas, with all the quarantines in place!
I have enjoyed the adventure you had in Poland. And I was intrigued by your traveling partner, Sofia, in Day 5 Siberia. Perhaps you have a proper introduction done in the earlier chapters but this is me, your friend, showing a little concern and much curiosity here.
And I must say I have relished every word in Day 15 SZX & HKG because Hong Kong has been and will always have a special place in my heart too. Many of the places mentioned can be vividly pictured in my mind’s eye.
Day 30 Pacific Ocean has caught me by surprise, despite my work in this industry, I didn’t realize that we can actually catch a ride on cargo ship. Yes, I do recall you mentioning this in one of our conversations many moons ago.
To sum up, I appreciate your British humor, the honest insight into your thoughts, feelings and the sharing of bits and pieces of your personal history I could not have known otherwise.
However, some thoughts came rather randomly in your book. Perhaps this makes it more real, I am a reader of fictions and may not be the best to comment on this…
Other than that, I would love to see more pictures of your travel as inserts in respective chapters. And I would think a pictorial representation of the route you have taken against the journey made by Phileas would be fun… you can include the dates here! And finally, monetary budget of your trip in the appendix or at the end of the book may also be something of interest to some readers. Tips you have included at the end of some chapters appeal to this group ?
I’m looking forward to your publication. So, do keep us posted!
Way to go, Phil!
Hey Phil,
Great work. A lovely style and lots of insights, characters, moments and the drip, drip, drip, of information and the great, continual, tension of the competition – taking on Mr P. I’ve read all of the Michael Palin’s plus all Bill Bryson’s – love this kind of writing so really enjoyed your story and your great idea of a new take on the race. Presently I’m racing to finish my Master of Philosophy thesis which has been a big struggle. What the thesis writing demands – a bit like Hemmingway and Orwell – is the tightness/tautness of the sentence. Cutting out all redundant words – making sentences active – ‘the dog bit the man’ rather than ‘the man was bitten by the dog’. Passive writing is apparently a bad habit of mine, my supervisor tells me – frequently. I heard recently that Hemmingway was taught to treat the adjective as the enemy. I have found that once you look at a sentence and remove any word that is not ‘paying its way’ the sentence becomes so much stronger and leads inexorably to the next. Not sure if any of that is useful but anyway. The only other thing I thought you could be an idea is a reflective contrast to the world journey experience – reflections on the past, childhood, Phileas Fog’s journey itself, living in Greece, Battersea, UK, family, ageing, children, love etc. Would the journey and the reflections serve as contrastable companions? But hey, I think what you have written is so comprehensive and so varied and such a great adventure there will sure to be so many avid readers – me and mine amongst them. Congratulations Phil it’s a great piece of writing and another wonderful adventure all of its own. You should be really pleased. You have a lovely style and there is so much to say. All best mate. Let me know if there is anything more I acn do. Cheers Sean.
What an adventure, laughter and sadness to realisation of oneself as a person, cannot wait to read the whole publication
What an experience to go through!, would love to find out how the other days went. Truly inspirational.
Hello Philip, you defeated Phileas Fogg ?
Many thanks for your post