Beautiful Britain is Jo Harrington
The car was the key. It's been over two decades, but I still recall the wonderful freedom of that first solo journey. I had borrowed my parents' car and the ink on the driving test pass was barely dry. I didn't go far, just a few miles up the road with Sinead O'Connor blarbing from the tape deck. It was Universal Mother. I remember it all.
My love affair with Great Britain had begun years before. But that was reliant upon literature or other people taking me places. I could use public transport of course, but even back then it was unreliable and prone to be over-priced. My car took me wherever I wanted to go; and I explored.
Britain has always been overlaid with some kind of earthly magic for me. It could be the legends in those old folk-tales or the history superimposed upon the landscape. I count myself lucky that I was born here; not through any disdain for any other nation's terrain, but because I know and love my own.
I'm a writer; but I've only ever written about a fraction of those journeys. I'm now a photographer; but only the tiniest number of the pictures that I take make it into the public eye. Mostly I'm just out there, enjoying what I see, learning, exploring, being there. It's not a bad place to be.
My love affair with Great Britain had begun years before. But that was reliant upon literature or other people taking me places. I could use public transport of course, but even back then it was unreliable and prone to be over-priced. My car took me wherever I wanted to go; and I explored.
Britain has always been overlaid with some kind of earthly magic for me. It could be the legends in those old folk-tales or the history superimposed upon the landscape. I count myself lucky that I was born here; not through any disdain for any other nation's terrain, but because I know and love my own.
I'm a writer; but I've only ever written about a fraction of those journeys. I'm now a photographer; but only the tiniest number of the pictures that I take make it into the public eye. Mostly I'm just out there, enjoying what I see, learning, exploring, being there. It's not a bad place to be.
