Weymouth, Adam

Weymouth, Adam

Adam Weymouth

28 August 2011Blog

Adam Weymouth on his walking from England to Istanbul, challenging xenophobia, the fear of strangers.

As I walked along the European bank of the Bosphorus, I stumbled upon a small group of fisherman who were coming to the end of their dinner. They called me over, offering me grapes and raki, and I explained in my smattering of Turkish what I was up to. “Londra, Istanbul,” slap legs, mime walking. “Sekiz ay” (“eight months”).

Throughout my whole journey I had been offered hospitality to an extent I could never have imagined before I left. I had been invited to sleep in peoples’ homes,…