Harry Bucknall, Tom Cheshyre, and and Nick Hunt at the Stanford’s Travel Writing Festival
In response to my request for ideas as to how to celebrate Paddy’s centenary this year we have had one or two ideas, but please come forward with more. So far we have the suggestion of a special page for your comments and quotes which we shall do, as well as a big Greek style party at my flat which appears to involve mass destruction of plates, furniture and ceilings with the unrestrained use of firearms in confined spaces. I am just checking the conditions of my lease and will come back on that one.
I have the idea of a one day event later in the autumn and shortly I will be asking you to vote for a couple of options via the wonderful Poll facility on WordPress.
Meanwhile, fresh from his successful debate with Blandford Forum’s leading travel writer, Harry Bucknall (author of Like a Tramp, Like A Pilgrim: On Foot, Across Europe to Rome
Patrick Leigh Fermor 
Thank you for the blog. I shall be in the Cotswolds next week and have planned to make a pilgrimage to Dumbleton on Wednesday and have lunch in the pub (if there is one). If any other Paddy fan plans to do the same, perhaps we could join up and at least toast his centenary? Does anyone know of a good pub nearby that Paddy might have frequented?
Elisabeth Whittaker
Love the idea of the one day event. It would be great to meet up with some other Paddy enthusiasts and maybe to put faces to a few of the names we see on this site!
Like-minded people might want to gather for a few drinks in Paddy’s memory on the day, in various locations. Particulary if Paddy himself had a favourite drinking place there.
I’ll be happy to stand a drink to anyone who shows up in Paris. Even better if you know of any bars where Paddy used to go (as he must have done).