Two books by Tom Coote

I first stumbled across the travel writer Tom Coote on Twitter a couple of years or so back, though I’d file him under “people who don’t tweet much but ought to as they’re interesting”.

That led me to his two books, both of which I enjoyed and would like to share a few thoughts on just now (there is a third book forthcoming, and that looks very interesting indeed).

The two books are quite different, though share the same spirit of adventurousness and travel to countries that aren’t necessaril...