'Inspirational!
Loved it!
It's bloody good!'
Loved it!
It's bloody good!'
To celebrate the freedom he enjoyed on his retirement, former journalist and newspaper editor RICHARD HARRIS decided to spend a night in his Bongo campervan every week for a year.
So for the next 52 weeks – all through the summer, autumn, winter and spring, and through sun, rain, gales, ice and snow – he set off once a week in his ancient Bongo van. Just because he could.
He went to places he'd never dreamed of going, did things he'd never dreamed of doing and met people he had never dreamed of meeting.
It was an extraordinary, exciting, dramatic and emotional year, which seemed to catch the imagination of other people as much as his own.
In 'BONGO NIGHTS' he tells the story of that unforgettable year – including:
* How he broke his leg and injured his back . . . but carried on regardless.
* How he inadvertently spent two nights in places associated with murder.
* How he skidded backwards down a hill and crashed into a wall in a blizzard.
* How he fled in embarrassment when he didn't like the company he was keeping in an isolated lay-by.
* How he spent a night at a Buddhist temple – after passing an hour in the company of a dead nun.
So for the next 52 weeks – all through the summer, autumn, winter and spring, and through sun, rain, gales, ice and snow – he set off once a week in his ancient Bongo van. Just because he could.
He went to places he'd never dreamed of going, did things he'd never dreamed of doing and met people he had never dreamed of meeting.
It was an extraordinary, exciting, dramatic and emotional year, which seemed to catch the imagination of other people as much as his own.
In 'BONGO NIGHTS' he tells the story of that unforgettable year – including:
* How he broke his leg and injured his back . . . but carried on regardless.
* How he inadvertently spent two nights in places associated with murder.
* How he skidded backwards down a hill and crashed into a wall in a blizzard.
* How he fled in embarrassment when he didn't like the company he was keeping in an isolated lay-by.
* How he spent a night at a Buddhist temple – after passing an hour in the company of a dead nun.
