Chloe Hadjimatheou

A strange thing at midday.

What's going on?

So dizzy.

Every time I look at the computer screen, it feels as if I'm travel sick.

I just had to lie down.

You can't do that.

You've got to get up and do some exercise.

Don't you care?

Get up.

Don't let this happen.

Just get up.

So the couple decided to go on another long walk, in Iceland this time.

And it really helped.

Perhaps making cider at Hay was keeping Moth's symptoms at bay.

Raina had told Bill that after the success of The Salt Path, she'd signed a three-book deal with Penguin, her publisher.

So in the summer of 2021, Raina and Moth went on yet another walk.

This one would form the basis for her third book.

It made the south-west coastal path look like a little stroll.

1,000 miles from the Cape of Wrath Trail in Scotland, one of the UK's toughest hikes, all the way down home to Cornwall.

Bill told me he'd wanted to meet up with them along the way and he contacted them, suggesting several points he could have joined them for the walk for a day or two.