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Category: Travel Journals
Every entry filed here, newest first: the places, the meals, and the small mishaps that go with them.
Personal narrative dispatches from the road.
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Beach Walks at Findhorn: One of Our Favourite Places in the UK
Findhorn Beach on the North Sea is one of our favourite places in the whole UK: miles of near-empty sand, a bright row of…
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James Watt Dock, Greenock: An Unexpectedly Wonderful Place to Wake Up on the Water
James Watt Dock in Greenock turned out to be one of the loveliest places we have parked all year, a historic Victorian marina on…
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The Other Birmingham: A Stay High Above Broad Street
A native of Birmingham, Alabama checks into the Hyatt Regency in Birmingham, England, and falls for a city of industrial bones, self-made barons, and…
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The Cows Run the Show
One night on Minchinhampton Common near Stroud, where open-range cattle sleep on the golf greens and fish and chips taste better shared with friends.
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A Quiet High Place in the Sibillini
High in the Apennines, our favourite high-altitude pitch in Italy’s Monti Sibillini, a plateau most foreign visitors never think to look for.
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Snow, a Castle, and the Luck of the Road
A snow squall cleared at exactly the right moment and gave us the castle to ourselves, blanketed and untouched, before the tour buses arrived.…
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A Week on the Edge of Dartmoor
We meant to pass through Devon and stayed almost a week. A slow-travel week on the edge of Dartmoor: hiking the tors, crossing the…