Travel Writing Library

I suppose I should have known I was going to be in trouble when the bottle of water arrived at my dinner table without the cap on, but the waiter was such a nice man. Surely he wouldn't play Russian roulette with my innards...

Traveling cheap, on a shoestring, is truly a balancing act, requiring trapeze-like skills. Every cent saved comes at a price, a trade-off with one of the finer elements in life. But every adventurer taking the economical route...

Flip flops. They’re not really that practical in the summer, let alone in winds strong enough to blow a house down. But we were Brits abroad and we were going to wear them even if it killed us, which in a way, it nearly did.

“Wakka wakka eh eh, This time for Africa”, I unconsciously drummed my fingers on the steering wheel as I drove my white BMW through the uninhabited suburbs of Bahawalpur, Pakistan. I slowed down the car’s AC since the car...

It wasn’t so much that it was the complete journey from hell, more that it was a journey not in the least what we expected it would be; it was long, dangerous for anyone with a heart condition, smelly, and uncomfortable...

Having travelled to India on my last visa run, I seek an alternative destination. What have I been craving in Bangladesh, that I may be able to experience elsewhere? The answer - the opportunity to swim.

On my four-day trip to Guadeloupe, a French Island in the Caribbean, I didn’t want to waste one second. Knowing that public transportation can be unreliable I decided to rent a small car to get to the surf school...

It was 11:00pm when the clouds parted and I saw Athens, Greece for the first time glistening through my window. “I Have a Dream” from the Mamma Mia soundtrack, was playing softly in my ear, and my boyfriend...

When Robert Louis Stevenson said “It is a better thing to travel hopefully than to arrive”, he had clearly never travelled on the road I was on. Had he done so, the “arriving” part might suddenly have...

Keeping aside spiritualism, heaven can have a deep physical presence . According to human knowledge, heaven is an abysmal void situated towards the upper reaches of the sky. Hence people often look up - ‘heavenwards’!!!