Travel Intelligence isn’t just about hotels, hotels, hotels; it’s also packed with some of the finest travel writing on the web. To see a selection of top-class travel writing about country sports, have a look through the articles listed below...
Articles in Country Sports
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Things to Do in the Algarve this Easter
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Paul Rouse
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Portugal
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Algarve Region
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Algarve
"If you thought there was only one Algarve, prepare to be inspired, says Paul Rouse."
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Texas: Shooting in the Badlands
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Rowena Carr-Allinson
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United States
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Texas
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Dallas
"‘Nice Shooting, Miss!’ I heard though my muffling blue earplugs. Our host smiled at me encouragingly. This was not, I thought, a phrase I was expecting to hear during my lifetime."
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Melbourne in Style
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Daniel Scott
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Australia
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Victoria
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Melbourne
"To me, Melbourne is Australia’s most civilised city. Perhaps it’s the trams and those well-preserved Victorian buildings that summon up a more refined era. Nothing, though, is more refined than a day at Caulfield races..."
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Friesland Ice Sleighs
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Jasper Winn
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The Netherlands
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other areas of the Netherlands
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Friesland
"Skating for the Dutch is the equivalent of Guinness and traditional music for the Irish - a symbol of who they are and where they've come from"
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Silent Runnings
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Roger Moss
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Canada
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Quebec
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Quebec City
"Outside it’s struggling to make -15ºC and there’s an added wind-chill factor we don’t even want to think about as our rented 4x4 rolls reassuringly through the whiter-than-white landscapes of a Quèbec winter"
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Flight of the Reindeer
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Jasper Winn
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Finland
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other areas of Finland
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Levi
""You know about animals...you drive," Senja suggested. Then voiced an underlying fear: "How do we stop the thing if it takes off?""
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Australian Bush Racing
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Jasper Winn
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Australia
"Just to get to Innamincka for its annual 'picnic races' entailed flying by bush plane for a fair few hours, skirting the Simpson desert in a 4X4 jeep for a day and bobbing around in a boat for half an hour on Cooper Creek"
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To the Manure Born
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AA Gill
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United Kingdom
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South West England
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Stoneleigh
"Here, no equinity is left unworshipped: hitching, harnessing, plaiting, braiding, contests by age, height, breed and sex; they skitter past for three days, like Genghis Khan’s Girl Guides"
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A Caribbean Primer
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Lucretia Stewart
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United States
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California
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Palm Springs
"A 1978 New Yorker cartoon depicted a middle-aged couple talking over drinks: it bore the caption: 'Let's go to the Caribbean or someplace and give our brains a rest'"
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Husky Sledging from Finland to Russia
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Dea Birkett
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Finland
"It was a little like riding a roller coaster blindfold. The track dashed through the thick forest, and even the weak headlamp only cast up strange shadows. You had to put all your faith in the dogs"