Bradt GuidesThe Light FantasticA major hazard in a travel writer’s life, as I have mentioned before, is the inescapable local ‘folkloric’ performance. I touched on folk…Mar 16, 2020Mar 16, 2020
Bradt GuidesinBradt GuidesNational StereotypesSome while back I mentioned that we’d be returning to the Hotel Les Orangers, in the Tunisian resort of Hammamet. And here we are. Well…Mar 16, 2020Mar 16, 2020
Bradt GuidesinBradt GuidesTerminal ConfusionThis tale is intended to be the literary equivalent of one of those little sorbets they give you when you are having a meal in a posh…Mar 16, 2020Mar 16, 2020
Bradt GuidesinBradt GuidesMy Colleagues and Other AnimalsAnybody who regularly travels abroad with colleagues will tell you that nearly every trip generates a running joke. Something happens at…Mar 16, 2020Mar 16, 2020
Bradt GuidesinBradt GuidesLights, Camera, Action!Throughout the 1960s I travelled extensively around Eastern Europe. Though the Iron Curtain was firmly in place and the Cold War at its…Mar 16, 2020Mar 16, 2020
Bradt GuidesinBradt GuidesThe Burgundy Jacket: a ‘faction’Wilfred and Gloria Taylor did not seem to be in any way out of the ordinary when I met them on the first evening of a Mediterranean cruise…Mar 13, 2020Mar 13, 2020
Bradt GuidesinBradt GuidesAlgarve InterludeAfter I began my travel writing career in 1961, I spent several months finding my feet and, literally, finding my way about. Accepting an…Mar 13, 2020Mar 13, 2020
Bradt GuidesinBradt GuidesAdrenalin RushA couple of minutes before seven o’clock on the morning of 8th July in the early days of my career, I stood at the western end of the…Mar 13, 2020Mar 13, 2020
Bradt GuidesinBradt GuidesBen le Vay’s top ten rail journeys1. The West Highland LineSep 25, 2019Sep 25, 2019
