...festival season hangs up her wellies for another year and we wave a sad goodbye to those long ...

"I always look forward to a Gone Fishing press trip because I know from experience I'll be well-looked after from the airport onwards. Whether it's ferrying clueless journalists from London to Mayrhofen via four other counties or sorting me out with an ambulance when I was taken ill, they've always been highly professional and highly efficient. And they're fun to hang out with too, which is equally important but not always a given"