November novelties.

[Bierzo Baggie]

Hi Andy!
Don’t you think running is conducive to writing because it really stimulates the senses..all of them, especially if you get off road? I suppose William Burroughs would have said the same about drugs! Personally I prefer the running…

About bears. Eastern European countries still have loads apparently. Read Nicholas Crane’s book “Clear Waters Rising” (someone mentioned it on the forum a while back). He bumped into one! North West Spain is the only place in Western Europe where a native brown bear population exists although they’re in constant danger of extinction despite heroic efforts of individuals like the two bear-spotters we met last week. The world today is rather bear-unfriendly and with new motorways, ski stations, short sighted hunters who mistake small bears for large wild boars, mines and quarries and looming land speculation, it’s difficult to see how the bears who’ve inhabited these mountains for centuries are going to survive this one. A shame, but there you go. I suppose there were bears in the UK once upon a time.