If
you want to rent a house in rural Spain then
come to La
Fresneda a beautiful Spanish village set amongst the olive plantations
of sunny Spain well away from the Costa del Sol and McDonalds. The
village has a great community with three fiestas each year and is in
excellent walking and cycling country. The house has grand mountain
views and is South and inland of Barcelona. Nearest airport is Reus.
If
you want to be shown the delights of Oxford by a qualified
tour guide then Rob Walters is your man. He lives in the centre
and organises tours of the
Oxford Colleges and Oxford University. The tours can be focused on the
famous graduates of Oxford from Richard Burton to Bill Clinton and
including Howard Marks, Graham Greene, William Morris, J R R Tolkien, C
S Lewis, Phillip Pullman, Gladstone, Margaret Thatcher, John Fowles,
John Betjman to name just a few. Alternatively you can take a walking
tour along the River Thames through Oxford's Castle, or you
can join
Rob on a pub tour or ghost tour of Oxford. This is the city of
Inspector Morse and Alice in Wonderland, often called the city of
dreaming spires.
If
you wish to visit the delightful rolling hills and pretty villages of
the Cotswolds
in combination with an Oxford tour or separately then Rob Walters is
your man. He is a Gloucestershire man and lives part of his life in
Stow-on-the-Wold - his tours often focus on that town and its
neighbours in the Cotswolds such as Bourton-on-the-Water, The
Slaughters, Northleach, etc. His patch is the North Cotswolds including
the gateway towns of Burford, Cheltenham, Woodstock and
Broadway. |
Rob Walters is
a writer. One of his latest book is Oxford
Rogues: Their City, Their Lives,
an intriguing tour through Oxford and through the lives of -
The Libertine: Lord Rochester
The Actor: Richard Burton
The Explorer and Pornographer: Sir Richard Burton
The Author: Graham Greene
The Drug Dealer: Howard Marks
The Rogue Writer: Richard Head
The Poet Laureate: Sir William Davenant
The Media Mogul: Robert Maxwell
The President of the USA: Bill Clinton
The Atheist and Poet: Percy Shelly
Prior to this he published Haunted
Oxford
(stories of the ghosts of Oxford)
and Spread
Spectrum: Hedy
Lamarr and the mobile phone.
The latter is about the invention and patent of
frequency hopping as a means of torpedo control, a technique which has
developed into spread spectrum technology used in the third generation
of mobile phones. It covers Hedy Lamarr’s work with George
Antheil and the early work of Edwin Armstrong and Claude Shannon. Hedy
was the first woman to appear naked on the movie screen in a film
called Ecstasy, later becoming a Hollywood star and inventor. The book
is published by Booksurge, an Amazon.com company. Rob has
also written three novels, a travel guide on rural Spain, a number of
short stories on Turkey and book on Sir Richard Burton - explorer,
Richard Burton - actor and Howard Marks – cannabis smuggler.
His five earlier books are technical books on Computer Telephony
Integration, voice systems and telecommunications. His current work is
called Being
Down, Looking Up
which records his experiences as a
shoeshine 'boy' cycling through middle England and the recently
published The
Battle for Stow, a
book on the old battle and currrent ones in the Cotswold town of Stow
on the Wold. |
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