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Motoring in Mitteleuropa consists of extracts from the author’s travel diaries to various central European countries: the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland. It focuses on castles and châteaux but also touches on towns, churches and restaurants. It does not pretend to be a modern Leigh Fermor or Pevsner. The author is a linguist and the work contains a number of linguistic jokes (some hidden). The word ‘motoring’ is slightly misleading: the author likes driving long distances but has no interest in cars and in fact cannot tell one from another. The friends with whom he travelled have, perhaps surprisingly, remained friends.

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Born in Gloucester, the author spent his entire working career as a translator, the last 25 years of which were at the European Parliament in Luxembourg where he was Head of English and Irish Translation and, for about a year, Head of Romanian Translation. His main interests are- unsurprisingly -  languages, castles, travel (he has an extensive collection of pre-war guidebooks), the EU and electoral reform. He was briefly a member of the Council of the Electoral Reform Society. He cofounded Cheltenham for Europe which won in the Brexit referendum. He is attempting to edit the diaries and correspondence of his father, a well-known genealogist. He is married with two children and three grandchildren. 

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