tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post5526750976616263692..comments2024-03-23T12:38:46.260+00:00Comments on The History Girls: Adventures in Europe with Patrick Leigh Fermor: by Sue PurkissMary Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06241989732624913706noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-44409705001538311212015-10-21T17:55:08.132+01:002015-10-21T17:55:08.132+01:00I really enjoyed this post, Sue. Leigh Fermor was ...I really enjoyed this post, Sue. Leigh Fermor was a most interesting man and obviously had a great deal of charm. However, a pound a week wasn't nothing - it was more than the average miner's weekly wage in the 1930s. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16949657441934825128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-59158171881983515462015-08-17T08:34:09.416+01:002015-08-17T08:34:09.416+01:00Carol, thank you; yes, I think that's the thin...Carol, thank you; yes, I think that's the thing that most appeals about him - that he's so full of life. Very bouncy, very curious, very friendly - a bit of a Tigger!Sue Purkisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09084528571944803477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-40343584090679195002015-08-17T07:16:40.081+01:002015-08-17T07:16:40.081+01:00I loved this post. He is one of my heroes and when...I loved this post. He is one of my heroes and when I first started travelling in my very early twenties, sleeping rough, ending up in fields full of goats , getting arrested in Yugoslavia (as it was then) etc, I always liked to fancy I was on the path of Paddy. I rarely ate with the aristocrats though! His writing is wonderful, so full of life.Thank you for a post that has really lifted me.Carol Drinkwaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05837854482139736944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-29605770151503095022015-08-16T10:58:44.275+01:002015-08-16T10:58:44.275+01:00Thank you for this!Thank you for this!Joan Lennonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15763862159032836768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-24328302927496551332015-08-16T08:43:42.438+01:002015-08-16T08:43:42.438+01:00Mean poems! Yes - I think Paddy was a consultant t...Mean poems! Yes - I think Paddy was a consultant to the film. Must have been odd! Mani sounds like a wonderful place.Sue Purkisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09084528571944803477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-77010638672834906372015-08-16T08:30:12.297+01:002015-08-16T08:30:12.297+01:00Brilliant post, Sue! Thanks for reminding me about...Brilliant post, Sue! Thanks for reminding me about him. I read his book <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0047DVHQW/theromanmyste-21" rel="nofollow">Mani</a> several years ago. <br /><br />Two fun trivia facts. The Richard Linklater film Before Midnight features a character called Patrick who is based on Paddy. They even filmed this movie at his famous seaside villa in <a href="http://nyrbclassics.tumblr.com/post/56535820218/paddy-leigh-fermor-in-before-midnight" rel="nofollow">Kalamitsi</a>, Greece. Another fun thing I discovered just last week was that the Classicist CM Bowra wrote two rude poems about playboy Paddy which were published after his death. Of course you wouldn't want to read them, but if you did you could find them <a href="http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/dugdale/bowra/websiteplf.pdf" rel="nofollow">HERE</a>Caroline Lawrencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07249424644829463560noreply@blogger.com