Muggled thinking about Budleigh Salterton
Should Budleigh be on the Harry Potter trail? Budleigh Salterton has achieved fame or notoriety in many ways. It was gently mocked by Noel Coward in Blithe Spirit for what he saw as its stuffiness. For motoring journalist Jeremy Clarkson, so the story goes - it was a typical name for a Bentley driver, leading the presenter of BBC television's Top Gear to stage an ill-fated episode of the show when he drove that £110,000 Bentley Continental GT onto our pebble beach. Understandably, perhaps, he thought that its four-wheel-drive system would get him off again. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/driving/jeremy_clarkson/article824064.ece I think the association I'm happiest with - and it's a sort of literary link which the Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival organisers may like to be aware of - is with the J.K. Rowling books. In a scene which the Tourist Information Centre people did not know about when I asked them, Rowling's character Professor Dumbledore brings Harry Pot...