That Summer: The Journey That Changed Me

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we have all experienced a summer that was more passionate, more wild or more bizarre than any other - when a journey turned our thinking on its head and the world exploded with new meaning and excitement. This may have been at a pop festival in the early 70s, amidst the patchouli oil and loon pants, or on a family holiday in a caravan in Tenby, where it never stopped raining and there was nettle soup for tea - every day. Maybe you were stuck on the Pakistani border in 1968 after a 6000-mile journey in a Morris Traveller, or hanging out with French teenagers on a school exchange holiday in the 80s, trying desperately hard to be as cool as your hosts. That Summer is a wonderfully eclectic collection of such rites of passage, each article written with a keen observation of cultural difference and an eye for the incongruous. Simon Calder has selected the best stories from the Independent's 'That summer' column - now in its tenth year - along with fifteen newly commissioned pieces to celebrate the column's first decade

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Author Simon Calder

ISBN 9780753508848

Publisher Virgin Books

Year Published 2004

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That Summer: The Journey That Changed Me by Simon Calder we have all experienced a summer that was more passionate,more wild or more bizarre than any other - when a journey turned our thinking on its head and the world exploded with new meaning and excitement. This may have been at a pop festival in the early 70s, amidst the patchouli oil and loon pants, or on a family holiday in a caravan in Tenby, where it never stopped raining and there was nettle soup for tea - every day. Maybe you were stuck on the Pakistani border in 1968 after a 6000-mile journey in a Morris Traveller, or hanging out with French teenagers on a school exchange holiday in the 80s, trying desperately hard to be as cool as your hosts. That Summer is a wonderfully eclectic collection of such rites of passage, each article written with a keen observation of cultural difference and an eye for the incongruous. Simon Calder has selected the best stories from the Independent's 'That summer' column - now in its tenth year - along with fifteen newly commissioned pieces to celebrate the column's first decade