The rush hour had long finished and I stood sweating at the roadside clutching the address of my hotel. I had set out this morning and seemed to have forgotten ...
“What do you do when your world shrinks? I go to the river.” Today’s #FlashFriday piece is “Hope Pier is a Real Place” by Tavia Allan.
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“I have one eye trained on the volcanic mountain…” Today’s #EssaySaturday is “The Current Unrest” by Kaitlin Solimine.
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“I like looking out over the expanse of this city…” Today’s #StorySunday is “Alyssa in Budapest” by Áine Travers.
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A native Brit living in Berlin experiences Russia.
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Tea and travel, a privileged friend gives up both.
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Leaving to find yourself.
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Walking the Camino, learning the lessons
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A traveller meditates on destinations unknown
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A tourist has a one-night-stand in Central Park
A traveller in Athens finds his way to the city on the hill.
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To wash away the blood of bulls and heretics, a trio of Hispano-Bretones draw six tons of bronze from the Casa de Campo.
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Towards the end of our time in Mozambique, my wife and I had arranged to meet a friend in Metangula, a small strip of a town on the shores of ...
Best known for her food writing, in Map of Another Town the American writer M.F.K. Fisher takes us on a virtual tour of the French town of Aix-en-Provence.
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Now I am standing before this timelessly powerful monument, breathing the cold air in awe, remembering the House of David and the crusades, thinking that this is the source, this ...
A stolen summer holiday in France.
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One beer down, but more drunk on the charming bookstore I’m sitting in, this stark difference between a world long gone (Lisbon in the 1930s) and a world very much ...
So this is East Germany, 1972. We scramble for our passports, watching passengers exit under machine guns aimed at our train from atop nineteenth-century iron catwalks arching above the tracks. ...
The creator of the hit musical Five Guys Named Moe, Clarke Peters, conjures up a vibrant and colourful picture for us to dive in, giving us glimpses of not just ...
The cop climbs in the back seat and introduces himself, Naim. Like many Afghans he has just one name.
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