AA Gill putting the most overrated person in the world ever in his place about his latest TV travel program. Utter genius.
Past experiences of this pensioner who dresses like an infant haven’t been elevating. There was all that zipping round on a motorised tricycle, flicking his thinning roadie’s hair, shouting me, me, me, like a Glaswegian seagull.
But contrary to my happiest expectations, his latest trip round the top of Canada was, despite the Big yappy Yin, rather elegiac. Warm people in cold places is an eternally winning formula for travellers’ tales, and this vast but relatively unvisited part of the world, with its transplanted communities of French Arcadians and Highland crofters, was entertaining and eccentric.
The landscape was so big and hard that it even managed to subdue Connolly’s self-regard, and I warmed to him a little, something I haven’t done since he married Michael Parkinson.
Past experiences of this pensioner who dresses like an infant haven’t been elevating. There was all that zipping round on a motorised tricycle, flicking his thinning roadie’s hair, shouting me, me, me, like a Glaswegian seagull.
But contrary to my happiest expectations, his latest trip round the top of Canada was, despite the Big yappy Yin, rather elegiac. Warm people in cold places is an eternally winning formula for travellers’ tales, and this vast but relatively unvisited part of the world, with its transplanted communities of French Arcadians and Highland crofters, was entertaining and eccentric.
The landscape was so big and hard that it even managed to subdue Connolly’s self-regard, and I warmed to him a little, something I haven’t done since he married Michael Parkinson.
