Bridget Ashton is an explorer, mother, writer and photographer. Her writing has been described as “Travel writing which is utterly authentic and restlessly curious”. Cold War, Warm Hearts published in 2023 is an account of a year’s solo travelling, on foot, behind the Iron Curtain in 1966. Hit the Road, Gals published 2024, talks about travelling in the sixties.
Details of this year’s festival programme can be found elsewhere on this website.
