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A Welsh Tipi Weekend | Rory MacLean | United Kingdom, Wales, Llandeilo
As the shadows lengthen and horizons contract, we move inside to layer sheepskins on the futons, later falling asleep by candlelight in the snuggest beds in the country
All Roads Lead to Mickey | Rory MacLean | United States, Florida, Disneyworld
I had planned to get through life without visiting Disney World. But during my last visit to Florida, its magnetic attraction could not be ignored. The 'World's Favourite Vacation Destination' drew me in to its orbit
Aussies? Sophisticated? | Rory MacLean | Australia, New South Wales, Byron Bay
Australians have become sensualists; bodies bronzing in the sun, sipping vibrant wines, savouring innovative Mod Oz cuisine, indulging in the sweet physicality of life in their remarkable country
Beyond Superior | Rory MacLean | Canada, Ontario, Lake Superior
We grilled the fish over the embers, then hung our food pack in the trees out of reach of any curious black bears, and waited for the stars. There wasn’t a soul on the water, no sounds of man or machine
Byron Bay: From Hippie to Chichi | Rory MacLean | Australia, New South Wales, Byron Bay
"The only trouble with paradise,” a ‘blow-in’ Sydney surfie told me as she picked up her longboard, “is that everyone wants a piece of it”
City of Mermaids | Rory MacLean | United States, Florida, St. Petersburg
In America if you want to meet a mermaid you can. Just up the coast from St. Petersburg on U.S. 19. For $14.95...
Fear is a Habit | Rory MacLean | Burma (Myanmar), Rangoon, Rangoon
Twelve years ago, on the auspicious eighth day of the eighth month of 1988, the Burmese people rose up against their military government. Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets
Gay Abandon | Rory MacLean | United States, Florida, Miami
If Florida is among the world's most hedonistic destinations, then Miami beach is its erogenous zone. During my last visit to the Sunshine State, I fell into the arms of loved-up uber-babes, red-lipped queens
If Pigs Could Fly | Rory MacLean | Germany, Berlin, Berlin
In 1989 I began to write a sensible book on eastern Europe. Then a revolution tore down the Berlin Wall. Fifty years of totalitarianism -first under fascism and then communism - ended almost overnight
Islands among Islands | Rory MacLean | United Kingdom, Hebrides, Western Isles
No place on earth moves me like the Hebrides. I was born six thousand miles away from Scotland, yet these wind-wracked, wave-tossed islands always feel like home
Lawnmower in Paradise | Rory MacLean | Canada, British Columbia, Vancouver
I was born in Vancouver, when the city still looked east back toward the Atlantic and Europe. Today it is the most beautiful trading city on the Pacific Rim, with its orientation firmly set on the Orient
Magic Bus: On the Hippie Trail from Istanbul to India (an extract) | Rory MacLean
The Asia Overland 'hippie' trail was the great journey for young, independent travellers during the 1960s and 1970s. In his new book, Magic Bus, the award-winning author Rory Maclean retraces the route from Istanbul to India, through a region transformed since the Summer of Love, seeing how the original journey changed forever the way we travel the world.
In Afghanistan he tells the story of deciding to fly over a particularly dangerous stretch of the trail after a Western aid worker is killed by 'remnant Taliban elements'. Unexpectedly his United Nations aircraft is diverted to Bagram, a central hub in the US military's five global commands. Because of security concerns, Rory and his fellow passengers - all of whom are UN or NGO employees - are forced to spend the night at the sprawling air base, along with 15,000 of the one million Americans maintained at arms on four continents...
May Day Parody | Rory MacLean | Poland, Eastern Poland, Warsaw
In 1989 I began to write a sensible book on eastern Europe. Then a revolution tore down the Berlin Wall. Fifty years of totalitarianism - first under fascism and then communism - ended almost overnight
Morocco and the positive force of change | Rory MacLean | Morocco, Marrakech, Marrakech
The bohemians, the Beats and the designers, among them Bill Willis, Charles Boccara and Meryanne Loum-Martin -- popularised the country, propelling it into our collective conscious and sowing the seeds for its transformation
Mosquito Fleet | Rory MacLean | Canada, Ontario, Toronto
I spent the summer days of my Canadian childhood on the Muskoka Lakes, a popular 'cottage country' 130 miles north of Toronto. Only a century ago it was a land of untamed maple hills and clear blue-black waters
Multi-Culti Capital | Rory MacLean | Canada, Ontario, Toronto
Toronto is the most ethnically diverse city in the world, and every year it celebrates its multi-culturalism with a week-long party, Caravan. But for all its thrills and virtues, I discovered on my last visit
Near-death experience | Rory MacLean | Russian Federation, Central Russia, Moscow
In 1989 I began to write a sensible book on eastern Europe. Then a revolution tore down the Berlin Wall. Fifty years of totalitarianism - first under fascism and then communism - ended almost overnight
Portofino | Rory MacLean | Italy, Italian Riviera, Portofino
Only God could have made Portofino, the exquisite flick of stone and affluence on Italy’s Riviera di Levante. And only the rich and the spendthrift could afford to sleep here
Stalin's Nose (An extract) | Rory MacLean | Russian Federation, Central Russia, Moscow
They embalmed Lenin the day after he died, Styopa told us, "with disinfecting liquid - a mixture of formalin and medical spirit - via the aeorta. His brain was removed and preserved in the Lenin Museum
Stalin's Nose (An extract) | Rory MacLean | Germany, Berlin, Berlin
It's your uncle, she shouted. The line was bad. I couldn't hear. "He's finally kicked buckets." My aunt had learnt her English after the war, while the allies remained allied, from the British military attache in Budapest
Swinging back to Sixties London | Rory MacLean | United Kingdom, London, London
Alongside New York and San Francisco, London was the herald and harbinger of the Sixties, the place and time where the women’s movement, gay lib, the environment and pop music became mainstream
The Garden of Eden, Florida | Rory MacLean | United States, Florida, Bristol
Forget what they taught you in Sunday school. The Garden of Eden isn’t in Mesopotamia. It’s off Highway 20, in northern Florida.
Time on Naxos | Rory MacLean | Greece, Cyclades (south), Naxos
The Cyclades spread across the Aegean like God's footsteps. Between creating Asia and Europe, He paused to dabble in the warm waters and left sparkling jewels in His wake
Tourism in Burma | Rory MacLean | Burma (Myanmar), other regions of Myanmar, Bagan
At the height of the uprising, in a gesture at once callous and surreal, the government announced a number of co-operative ventures with Western firms to build tourist hotels