The Last Visit
by Caroline Mckenzie Third Place in the 2024 PureTravel Writing Competition We stand and look down over the Northumbrian wilderness, bleak and beautiful and flanked by forest. In the distance,…
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Stories for Survival: The 2025 PureTravel Writing Competition – Entry Details
**UPDATE: Due to the volume of entries received to this year’s competition, the shortlist will be published on 30 October 2025. ** We are delighted to host Stories for Survival,…
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2024 PureTravel Writing Competition – The Results
Many thanks to the hundreds of writers who entered our 2024 PureTravel Writing Competition. It’s been a tough job, initially narrowing the entries to just twelve for our head judge Jeremy Lazell…
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Climbing Mountains
by Kay Anderson Winner – PureTravel Writing Competition 2024 I did my first abseil when I was four years old. It was sixty feet. I did it because my father…
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The Hindu Kush: A Journey to the Rugged Heart of Central Asia
Robert Ferguson spend a summer traveling in the Hindu Kush in the late 1990’s, camping in poppy fields, experiencing the wonderful hositality of its inhabitants and entranced by its rugged…
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Discovery on the Inca Trail
by Murielle La Mont PureTravel Writing Competition 2024 As the first rays of dawn began to pierce the thick morning mist, I found myself standing at the entrance of a…
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Whimsical Transit
by Sanjana Rajaram Chandre PureTravel Writing Competition 2023 Traveling can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection; how true these words are! I am a resident of Nanded,…
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Interlude into the Past
by Anju Fernandes PureTravel Writing Competition 2023 How do you explain visiting your sister’s home in quaint little Hofstetten-Fluhin Switzerland and accidentally falling in love with a Chateau in France…
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The Dumplings of Triumph
by Sraddha Srikanth Pai Pure Travel Writing Competition 2023 “Why am I feeling so cold suddenly?” “Because it’s raining, idiot! I think we should head back to the hotel.” It…
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