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Couchsurfing South America: The Safe Sandbox of Santiago
Our traveling columnist, David Hargreaves, takes a look around Santiago with low expectations.
The Litro Blog, Travel&Lifestyle
Once and Once Only: the Finished #Litrostory
Last week over at Litro UK, the team in London ran the latest in our series of literary experiments on Twitter. We asked our UK followers to write a collective ...
Digital Subscriptions, Litro #141: Myths and Legends, Travel&Lifestyle
Land of Fire and Ice
Couchsurfing South America: Over the Andes Mountains
In his latest Couchsurfing column, David Hargreaves braves the stark white snowfields of the Andes.
Arts & Culture, Travel&Lifestyle
Literary London: A Recommended Reading List
For your next trip to this cosmopolitan labyrinth, pack your bags (or load your e-reader) with this quintessential London reading list from Jamie Leigh.
Couchsurfing South America: A Nymphomaniac in Buenos Aires
“There’s two things you should know about me before you stay at my place. One: I sleep a lot. Two: I’m kind of a Nympho.” In the latest of his ...
Couchsurfing South America: A Locked Door in Cusco
In the first of a new travel series, David Hargreaves begins his Couchsurfing trek across South America – only to find a locked door in Cusco, Peru.
Feature Film: Enemy
Infidelity is at the ground floor of many a narrative structure and for the characters, more often than not, it’s all about the sex. What happens to the ...
Notes on Fear
What stayed with me was the guy’s face. His mouth was curved with mirth—he was about to make a funny comment—but his eyes widened slightly with surprise. He simply didn’t ...
Diary of a Laptop Hobo: Scranton, PA
You’ll see us around town. Staring intently into screens, passably dressed, tipping fairly well to counter-balance our loitering.
Maha Kumbh Mela: The Largest Gathering on Earth
Photographer Kris Hariharan’s beautiful images of the largest peaceful human gathering on earth, the religious ritual of immersion in the Ganges.
God Rides the Bus in Sudan
The truck veers suddenly to the left and screeches to a halt. The driver’s door opens and he emerges with a shotgun in one hand, hitching his robes up with ...
Infinite Loop: Recording Ourselves
Diana J Wynne time travels into the past of her family through the recordings they left, from the 78 LPs of her great-grandfather, Kid Morris the boxer and his housekeeper ...
Tea and Tear Gas in Turkey
In her column Slow Travel Stories, Claire Harris witnesses the police using tear gas on demonstrators in Taksim Square, Istanbul.
Toy Guns and Pocket Knives in Beirut
“We have a joke in Shatila. The devil comes to take a man to hell. The man tells him, ‘I will be happy to go with you because anything must ...
Forget Paris. When in Rome…
Slow Travel Stories: Claire Harris is stranded in Paris and Rome, and discovers that midnight busking comes with some risks.
The English Slaughters
Claire Harris continues her Slow Travel column with a stint as a carer to an ageing English aristocrat with a penchant for whiskey and speeding disabled vans.
The Politics of Transgression: An Activist’s Story
What drives an individual to break the law or take on the might of a multinational corporation in the name of their political and social beliefs? Bella Reid talks to ...
Dancing Barefoot Under the Montana Sky
“If you folks aint got nothing to do this evening, you might wanna pull the chairs out onto the porch and sit watchin’ the cars go down the highway.” Claire ...
Slow Boat to Timbuktu
“Don’t look down the sides,” one of my fellow travellers says. Whatever you do, you do not wanna see what is underneath us,” Which naturally makes us rush to peel ...