Martin Hesp
All in Travel
Schnitzel is one of the great dishes to be found in countries like Germany and Austria - simple but delicious - it’s the sort of food you sample at least once while on a visit
Curry-wurst is a great favourite in Germany so we thought we’d give it a try in an ancient town in Lower Saxony
German food is delicious and very filling. Here’s one typical dish - Schweinshaxe is very much for meat eaters only - a large pork knuckle cooked slowly and served with sauerkraut and potatoes
We explore another hidden corner - this time on the Cornish coast - a craggy valley full of rocks and legends
A day back in school - Salcombe Distilling Co’s new Rum School, to be exact
In the second of our series on unknown out-of-the-way places, Martin Hesp recalls a time when he joined climber and artist, the late David ‘Kester’ Webb, an adventure to explore North Devon’s Secret Canyon
In the first of a short series we look at some of the secret corners of the South West - and we do so without naming them! We begin somewhere in central Exmoor…
A tour around Porthleven, first written 20 years ago when that Cornish harbour village was a different place
August 15 and 16 seem to be fateful days in the West Country where some of the worst weather events on record have occurred on those dates - including the Lynmouth Food Disaster exactly 70 years ago and the terrible flood at Boscastle 18 years past… the rains nearly caused havoc again this year…
My sound recording made at Helwell Bay for BBC Radio Four’s Today programme Best Beaches feature - but it was messed up by them and broadcast under someone else’s name
