RUSS JONES RETURNS WITH A SECOND ACCOUNT OF INDIAN TRAVELS. Our driver, Om (yes we all made the ‘meditation’ joke), recommended a flash visit to Jaipur, Rajasthan’s largest city. Jaipur was famed for its nearby tourist attraction, the Amber Fort: a 16th century palace-cum-battle arena that consisted primarily of pretty wall patterns and a mass of [...]
CHARLIE BRITTEN OFFERS A BRIEF INFORMATION GUIDE TO POLAND If the best things in life are free, the most interesting attractions in Poland cost nothing, or very little. The various Polish governments believe that everyone should be able to see the abomination of the death camps free of charge. Whilst this is not exactly a fun day out, [...]
DEAN CODY CASSADY OFFERS A SECOND EXCERPT FROM HIS USA TRIP. On the Greyhound, halfway to New York City, south on Interstate 95. Crystal blue sky over the Smalltownvilles of America: railroad complex hunkered flat, low, wide; billboard signs like jungle flowers high over telegraph poles and wires; roadside eateries like scattered stones, flat [...]
DEAN CODY CASSADY OFFERS AN EXCERPT FROM A TRIP TO THE EAST COAST OF THE STATES. I finally made it to the USA, after years of sucking up the place through childhood TV. Outside Boston, MA., in an old timber frame house, it’s like stepping into that TV screen! Lightblue and white, cream and [...]
R. L. TILLEY WALKS IN HEMINGWAY’S SHOES, IN CUBA. In Santiago de Paula we walk up to Finca Vigia, Hemingway’s old home, now a museum. A leafy driveway leads to the place, which is surrounded by gardens. It is pretty much as he left it in 1960, when he left for Spain and then [...]
IDA JONES RECOUNTS AN EXCURSION INTO RUSSIA. A Baltic sea cruise, 2001 - seven countries in fourteen days. Next stop St. Petersburg. We had attended the talk the previous evening and were advised we should stay with our tour guide and not go off on our own. It was the only city that welcomed us [...]
DEAN CODY CASSADY WRITES AN INDIVIDUAL TAKE ON A SPANISH CULTURAL EVENT. Midnight. We fall off the bus: dirty, dishevelled. Fernando meets us, escorting us to an apartment on Avenida de Goya. We talk over beer, tired. He buzzes, but we agree to sleep, meet in the afternoon. Zaragoza, laid out along long avenidas, connected [...]
RUSS JONES OFFERS HIS OWN PERSPECTIVE ON RECENT TRAVELS IN INDIA. India: a country famous for its rich history, its tapestry of cultures, religions and classes; a land of mystery, mystique and revelation. I was nervous that it couldn’t possibly live up to the hype. Nervous and hungry. We were staying just off the [...]
OUR TRAVEL TALES SERIES CONTINUES, as Valerie Cameron exposes the very modern times of Alexandria. There is no pleasure in beating down the price of something when the bottom has so disastrously dropped out of the tourist market. Four Bedu rugs bound with string for £35, but how much for the weavers? I give [...]
IN THE FIRST OF A PLANNED SERIES OF TRAVEL TALES (by various writers), Golden Langur recounts a journey across northern India by rail. New Jalpaiguri, in North Bengal, the nearest broad gauge railway station on the Indo-Bhutan border is a tangle of steel frames over platforms and footbridges. It spreads out like the [...]
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