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An Incomparable Inertia: Skopje to Saloniki by Rail | Christopher Deliso | Macedonia, Skopje, Skopje

Unless you take the other one, in the dead of night, the train arrives in late afternoon and by that time you just want to sit down and sleep against the window

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Driving the Red Centre | John Borthwick | Australia, Northern Territories, Alice Springs

The highway from Alice Springs to Ayers Rock is no longer the infamous track of yore, but its perspectives are still a humbling reminder of being a mere dot amid all this space, all this time

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Karakoram Highway: The High Road to China | John Borthwick

A brief night in this crumbling, colonnaded ghost is a fitting start for a Karakoram Highway journey, from Pakistan to China, that's much about seeing time - both cultural and geological - in rewind

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Perfect Day | Vitali Vitaliev | Greece, Mainland Greece, Mount Athos

Having visited over 60 countries of the world in the last seven or eight years, I often fantasise about an ideal day, spent in the places that I liked most of all

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Pilgrim Route to the Birthplace of the Incas | Martin Li

The moon’s reflection rippled over the calm lake surface, joining the Islands of the Sun and Moon in a shimmering bridge of light. Occasional flashes of lightning danced over the distant peaks of the Cordillera Real

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Road Trip Morocco | David Atkinson | Morocco, Southern Morocco, Ouarzazate

The instructions were simple. I was to meet a man called Mustapha in a café in the Marrakesh medina. There, the deal was struck over glasses of mint tea

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Road-Tripping in India | Sue Carpenter

Night had fallen and Simi was sleeping in my lap by the time we crossed from Madhya Pradesh into Gujarat. It was like crossing from Mexico to the USA

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Round the World in Twelve Days | Arnie Wilson

In our case if it was Monday so it must have been Indonesia - Day 10 in our round-the-world-in 12 days “Great Escapade” odyssey

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Take a Long, Long Walk | Jasper Winn

Travel is a strange preoccupation. It's not a money making proposition, this journeying lark; airport taxes alone turn any foreign journey into an immediate fiscal loss, even before the nose wheel leaves the ground.

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The Chicken Bus to Antigua | Brendan Sainsbury

In Guatemala a ride on a chicken bus is a veritable, if painful glimpse into the essence of life itself - a harsh and uncomfortable cultural treat, but a treat worth tasting all the same

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