Jack Montgomery Writer & Slow Travel Specialist

From learning to live with rejection to too much yapping, ten things I learnt from the London Festival of Writing #LFOW #writing #JerichoWriters jackmontgomery.co.uk/2025/07/21/lon…

I love finding strange things in the woods (except after dark). It's easy to believe magical creatures could dwell in enchanting forests, like this wonderful sleeping #MudMaid at #TheLostGardensofHeligan. Sssh, she’s not so serene if her slumbers are disturbed. #cornwall

I almost felt like dropping to my knees to worship Infinity Blue at the Eden Project. It had that Indiana Jones deep-in-the-jungle idol vibe going on. #EdenProject #Cornwall

My creative writing time is in the morning. A couple of afternoons a week, we walk an 8km circuit across the fields surrounding our village. As well as being good for keeping the leg muscles limbered up for longer hikes, it frees up the mind. #walking #hiking #writing #Somerset

The closing stretch of the annual duck race in our village. Despite having six entries between us, none of our ducks even made it through the two qualifying rounds. #Somerset

Which of these statements are true? Within a fortnight of moving to the island, I became Tenerife’s ambassador to Ireland. I accompanied a gorilla into the Houses of Parliament. After The Salt Path, can we trust #memoirs? Here's why I do. jackmontgomery.co.uk/2025/07/22/can… #writing

Err, I’m not sure. But that doesn’t matter as I like the idea. #eden

Once upon a time, in the deep heart of an enchanted wood, a curious leaf detached itself from a tree and ventured into an area of the forest where there lived a dragon with a fierce breath which could turn things to bronze… #edenproject #enchantedforest #MythandFolklore

Two kilos of tomatoes, and 36 hours of straining them through muslin, and all for this. The bowls of gazpacho we were planning to serve our neighbours turned into shot glasses. #gazpacho #soup

This is Amol Rajan on @BBCr4today interviewing John Healey about the super-injunction – ‘Grrr, snarl, grrr.’ And then him interviewing Grant Shapps a couple of days later about the same subject – ‘Purr, purr, purr, purr.’ Impartiality fail.

Sorry Cornwall, Devon's way just seems to make more sense to me. #creamtea #scones #jam #cream #Cornwall

The folk harvesting grain in the field behind our house are using a far less fancy contraption than the behemoth which rolled through the village yesterday. #somerset #harvest

I received a press release about #walking in the #CanaryIslands in summer. It included a statement stating summer temperatures were no hotter than winter ones. This isn’t accurate. I'd give different advice for each island. This is for #Tenerife walkingtenerife.co.uk/walking-condit…

It’s that time of the year again. The street through the village isn’t really wide enough for this, especially with cars parked outside houses. But somehow, they manage to manoeuvre their way through. #rural #Somerset #village

My July writing newsletter includes toxic books, a cool city, someone from my school who sang with Frank Sinatra, and lost gardens. It’s going out at lunchtime (UK hours), so still time left to subscribe #writing #newsletter jackmontgomery.co.uk

Our village postbox must be feeling awfie hot in this weather.

Two scenes from #TowerHill in #London from the Friday before Jericho Writers’ London Festival of Writing. We only got to see the inside of a couple of pubs. Once the festival started, we hardly saw daylight till it was over. Incidentally, both pubs were really good. #LFOW25

Although I’ve been a travel writer for over twenty years, I don’t read a lot of travel articles. This is why. #Travelwriting #writing jackmontgomery.co.uk/2025/06/23/dif…

Chuffed to learn I was longlisted in an annual flash fiction competition (1000 words). This is an extract from Inquisition Three Zero, the short story I submitted. #writing #shortstories #shortstorycompetitions #dystopian #scifi

That was intense, informative, illuminating - enough of the alliteration – educational, enjoyable (oops), thought-provoking, and motivating @JerichoWriters #LFOW25