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SEEKING DR LIVINGSTONE
Nine million litres of angry river race past my ankles and roar over the cliff. The lip of the world’s greatest waterfall is twenty feet away. A single slip and I’m gone… Read
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IN LAURIE LEE
COUNTRY
As I walked out one
midsummer morning
I found myself in Laurie Lee’s Gloucestershire… Read
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BESIDE THE
SUMMER SEA
“Look out for whales!” yelled my teenage son as our bicycles rattled onto a twisting path above a cliff…
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JUDGING THE TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD
Like Mark Twain, reports of the death of travel writing have been greatly exaggerated…
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SAILING THE SWEDISH
ISLANDS
“You eat it with a knife and fork,” smiles Jane, my Swedish cousin, as I peer into a bowl of Summer Meadow Soup…
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WE’LL ALWAYS HAVE PARIS
Gliding between the fashion models and millionaires, kissing hands and patting shoulders, the barman pauses at a photo above my chair… Read
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FOR STEVE WATKINS
1965-2019
I’m raising a glass to you tonight amigo / A glass of our Pedro Ximenez / Recalling…
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WINDMILLS IN SPAIN
From up here you can see all the windmills in La Mancha,” says Jose, peering to the rust-red plain below. “This is the crossroads of Spain…” Read
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FOLLOWING NEW ZEALAND’S RAINBOW GOD
As darkness fell on the olive trees and the grazing deer, I slipped into the jacuzzi in my treehouse and listened to the Pacific breakers rolling in… Read
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INTO JORDAN’S HIDDEN CITY
“Cousin, do you remember me from two thousand years ago, when I sold you a shipload of ivory from Africa?”… Read
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CHASING GHOSTS IN CRETE
Disguised as dockers, two men darted across the harbour and cut their way through the wire… Read
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SCANDI NOIR
I’m driving through central Denmark in search of dead bodies… Read
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PINTXOS ON PICASSO STREET
Chef Alija leans across the counter. “This food is our culture,” he growls, “our identity, our place…” Read
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RENDEZ-VOUS IN PARIS
The first place I ever tasted freedom was Paris. I remember the day it happened… Read
“I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.” – Paul Theroux