early 21st Century – t r a v e l without moving

Article & book: The Camino de Santiago & travel snobbery

We live in a world of systems and safety nets, and we learn at an early age how to navigate

A voice in the haze ruminated about “the financial terrorism” that led to Greece’s economic crisis. An elegant old woman

The islands are almost eerily void of man-made sound. The wind whistles, the sheep bellow, the waves crash against the

Thanks to a caffeine break at Kioskafe near Paddington while cycling to work one morning last week, I stumbled across

The road makes me happy,” she says, “as it will greatly improve my family’s living conditions and make life easier.

And as I rose up and knew I was tired and I continued my journey. (Edward Thomas) Two contrasting pieces

What is interesting is to find, in that continuity, the less-obvious differences of texture: the signs, the markings, the assemblages,

I chose a bike instead of a partner, the road instead of a basecamp. I chose Krygyzstan. Its intriguing network

As a four-year-old in Oxford, I had scant chance of knowing what the Himalayas looked like….All we could do was

As we rolled out of the city, tracing the Danube back towards its source, a man served coffee and handed

The conversation was always about ‘help, help, help,’ but nobody ever asked if what we were doing was needed. With

When you plan an adventure some will tell you that you are mad, and nearly all will say, “What is

But a part of me admires the candor. I’ve been led to understand that, when traveling, one does not generally

The world demands payment sooner or later, which is how we arrived at this uneasy nexus of reportage and promotion

Incarnations by Sunil Khilnani Allen Lane (2016) India’s past is an arena of ferocious contest, its dead heroes continually springing