WORDS HANNAH
Chipps is away. He’s off on sabbatical to what he calls ‘his favourite place in the world’: Moab, Utah. Now, I’m not going to argue with him – Moab is probably wonderful, and there are some ancient petroglyphs there that I’d really like to see, and I definitely want to feel the texture of slickrock under my fingers and tyres before I die.
But for all that I’m sure Moab is lovely, I’m not sure it’s wise to call anywhere your favourite place in the world. Move to Moab and perhaps the more moist offerings of Todmorden might start to have their attractions. Well, maybe not Todmorden… the Paciffic North West, perhaps.