Travel Writing Library

O dear, have I ever been in a place I didn’t want to be? Possibly while picnicking on yesterday’s cold parathas, heavy oily flannels of indigestible dough unwrapped from the car boot and three layers of foil on the...

Note to self. Next time you go to Hong Kong for new years, book a room in advance. After hours of walking I finally found a hotel with a vacancy. The owner called his wife to show me to my room.

Who knew a 45 second encounter with a girl no more than 12, could have such an impact? It’s been 3 years, and I still think of her often. I wonder if she feels the same.

This is the first time I have ever gone to Istanbul and what a mystical, place it is with so many sights and sounds to see. Stepping back in time to the 6th century the underground dark remains of the Palace Cistern...

Even as I took in the hot summer weather and gorgeous green scenery, I still couldn't help feeling a bit homesick. I had recently experienced a major disillusionment with someone I considered a good friend;

A cold autumn sun is kissing yellow leaves that are dancing in the wind. A squirrel is looking for something to eat on the ground. It does not scare people. The grass and tree trunks break through asphalt and concrete walls.

Before I meet my gruesome and untimely end, I have a few moments to ponder my predicament and reflect on how I came to be perched on a slat of wood in the Alaskan outback, pants round my ankles and about to be...

Our plan was to walk up the east side of the hill, over the top and down towards the sunset, to meet Daudi, our driver. Jamie carried a rifle and a radio, and I had binoculars. Our clients were bedecked with an assortment...

Travelling across Italy to get home because of a difficultly named volcano in Iceland wasn't the perfect end to my honeymoon.

We were at the last stretch of our journey. A nine hundred forty kilometer train ride through the Sahara. The train must have been at least fifty years old. It was a fittingly beige color, blending in nicely with the endless...