Oh I did enjoy the book; I often read his books on holiday when I was doing something similar at the time [Neither Here nor There when we were travelling round Europe and AWITW's when we walked the Samaria Gorge]. He was meant to be 44 when he actually did the walk; I know he tends to describe himself as old, fat and unfit in most of his books but to be portrayed by someone in their [probably] 70's is taking it a bit too far. Teetime; please still see the film...it may have just been me...quite a few people laughed out loud several times and no one got up and left as soon as the film ended [usually the sign of a rubbish film] except us. I guess it was loosely 'based' on the book and not a true reflection of it [although he did, on a couple of occasions launch into the interesting facts that Bryson scatters throughout his books with regularity].I too am a bit 'Brysoned out' these days but when I did first start reading them I loved them.