Inspiring Travel Writing About History: Page 10 of 47

Faraway Bay | Belinda Jackson | Australia | Western Australia | Kununurra

"Incredibly, this strip of coastline has never been officially surveyed. All place-names are whatever the locals call them. The bush camp generates its own electricity and takes its water from a freshwater spring"

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Diwali | Justine Hardy | India | Delhi Region | Delhi

"To fly into this Festival of Light is to enter Indian culture by many doors at the same time. This is not a festival of just one religion but of three; Hindus, Sikhs and Jains celebrate simultaneously in late autumn"

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Finding Judas in Halki | Ben Mallalieu | Greece | Dodecanese (south east) | Rhodes

"A Greek island of less than 300 people, Halki's deeply scarred psyche resulting from 2,000 years of abuse has made for some strange rituals"

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Gran Canaria | Maxine Jones | Spain | Canary Islands | Maspalomas

"What I didn’t expect when I booked four days in Spain’s biggest holiday resort was to have 250 hectares of rolling, deserted sand dunes on my doorstep. "

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Dark Arts of Bologna | Rebecca Ford | Italy | Emilia-Romagna | Bologna

"Inside the Archiginnasio is the Teatro Anatomico, where dissection of corpses would take place in front of an audience of medical students. Members of the Inquisition would watch through a panel in the wall"

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Do Oar Die: The Venice Regatta | Marc Zakian | Italy | Veneto Region | Venice

"Nobody does boats like the Venetians. Rome has Popes, Florence the Renaissance, but Venice"

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Barcelona: An Architectural & Artistic Guide | Fiona Dunlop | Spain | Catalunya | Barcelona

"Famously proud, culturally dynamic and economically self-sufficient, Barcelona is a city which pulls out all the stops architecturally..."

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Echoes of Glory | Philip Sen | Vietnam | North West | Dien Bien Phu

"Handfuls of middle aged men, perhaps the sons of the fallen, kneel before the graveyard's understated shrine and light fragrant incense sticks, thousands more of which are clustered in the birdtable-like burner stands"

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Finistère: Land of legends | Solange Hando | France | Brittany Region | Brest

"On this most northerly point, the Celtic monk St Pol defeated the dragon to become one of Brittany"

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Discovering Little America | Clive Tully | United Kingdom | East Anglia | Norfolk

"As I stand at the top of the control tower, the air vibrates with the sound of aero engines. But it’s the sound of only one aircraft, when there should be many more. I scan the skies, desperate to pick him out. I can see him now, a B17 Flying..."

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