A lifelong search for the real place

I've started the new year having a big think about the thing I do – travel writing. Let's go to Oxford for some advice on what it all means

Addison’s Walk, Oxford, September 2022

I’ve been rifling through my travel memories of 2022. In mid-September, I fetched up in Oxford to go for a walk with my friend George.

Neither the date nor the location was accidentally chosen. We chose to stay in Magdalen College. On the same day in September, 91 years before, three friends opened an iron gate by Ma…