Inspiring Travel Writing About Memorable Journeys: Page 10 of 18

Take a Long, Long Walk | Jasper Winn | France | Provence | --

"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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Vienna's Horse-Drawn Cabs | Jasper Winn | Austria | Vienna | Vienna

"In Vienna, horse-drawn carriages, fiakers, still ply for hire in the city’s centre, continuing a history that goes back to the mid-17th century and making them one of the oldest organised taxi systems in Europe"

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The Savannah Way | Liz Johnston | Australia

"Travel the Savannah Way from Cairns on the east coast of northern Australia to Broome on the west. Stop at rock-fringed waterholes, visit wondrously beautiful gorges in the midst of desert country and call into indigenous communities to buy art..."

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Via Francigena | Rebecca Ford | Italy

"I was on a pilgrimage – although I was looking for the hidden Italy rather than purification. I was following part of the Via Francigena, an important pilgrim route that once ran from Canterbury to Rome"

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Too Chicken | Yvonne Van Dongen | Guatemala

"No no no no no. We are not going to travel by chicken bus. Even though they’re the cheapest and fastest form of transport in all Guatemala"

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Virgin Atlantic's Upper Class Suite | Daniel Scott | France | Provence | --

"The best thing about the Virgin suite is simply its size. At 56cm wide and 208cm long, the seat is the largest “fully-flat bed in business class” as well as being broader than most First Class seats on other airlines"

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Road-Tripping in India | Sue Carpenter | India

"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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The Best Worst Job in the World | John Borthwick | France | Provence | --

"Any travel writer who stays home long enough to actually converse might tell you that they would be wealthy if they had a dollar for every time someone insisted, 'You've got the best job in the world'"

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Magic Bus: On the Hippie Trail from Istanbul to India (an extract) | Rory MacLean | Turkey | Marmara | Istanbul

"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..."

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Sumatra: On a Wing and a Prayer | Mark Eveleigh | Indonesia | Sumatra

"Tattooed Dayak sailors from Borneo and swarthy Acehnese from the jungle towns of northern Sumatra offload endless cargos of hewn wood"

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