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National Stereotypes
National Stereotypes
Some 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…
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Mar 16, 2020
Terminal Confusion
Terminal Confusion
This 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…
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Mar 16, 2020
My Colleagues and Other Animals
My Colleagues and Other Animals
Anybody who regularly travels abroad with colleagues will tell you that nearly every trip generates a running joke. Something happens at…
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Mar 16, 2020
Lights, Camera, Action!
Lights, 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…
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Mar 16, 2020
The Burgundy Jacket: a ‘faction’
The 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…
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Mar 13, 2020
Algarve Interlude
Algarve Interlude
After I began my travel writing career in 1961, I spent several months finding my feet and, literally, finding my way about. Accepting an…
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Mar 13, 2020
Adrenalin Rush
Adrenalin Rush
A 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…
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Mar 13, 2020
Ben le Vay’s top ten rail journeys
Ben le Vay’s top ten rail journeys
1. The West Highland Line
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Sep 25, 2019
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