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 spectator sports, have a look through the articles listed below...
Articles in Spectator Sports
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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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Mallory Park
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Marc Zakian
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United Kingdom
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Midlands
"My inner action man was about to be liberated. Early on a brittle winter morning, my hands clutching a steaming cup of builders brew, I stood with fifteen wanabee boy racers in a mud swamped field in Leicester. Our mission: to throttle up as many..."
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European Festivals
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Kamin Mohammadi
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Italy
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Sardinia
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Sedilo
"It is hard to believe that a race that lasts all of two minutes can inspire so many weeks’ of eager anticipation and rivalry as Siena’s Palio."
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A Rebel City with Culinary Clout
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Gillian Ivory
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Ireland
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Southwest (Kerry & Cork)
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County Cork
"The "Great Marsh of Munster" celebrates the party of all parties each year with a huge "ceili" in the main street. Mix it with the lilt of the locals, a penchant for dangerous games and some great fish cappuccinos and you've got The People's..."
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A Two-Horse Race
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Jasper Winn
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Argentina
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Argentine Lakes
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Cholila
"Argentine gaucho racing is very, very simple. There's a quarter-mile dirt track with two - just two, so that’s easy - horses running head to head"
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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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A Sip of Southern Spain
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Barbara Erasmus
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Spain
"The windmills of Don Quixote turn slowly against the backdrop of a blue, cloud-free sky as we drive through a flat, thirsty landscape en route from Madrid to Seville"
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How to Ride an Elephant
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Julie Miller
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Thailand
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The North
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Chiang Saen
"There really is no graceful way to mount an elephant. And to make matters worse, there are cameras poised ready to capture me in all my lumbering inelegance"
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Out with the Old, In with the Nudes
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Mark Eveleigh
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Spain
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Navarra
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Pamplona
"“Pamplona is changed of course,” wrote Hemingway, during one of his last visits to the fiestas of San Fermin, “but not as much as we are older. I found that if you took a drink it got very much the same as it always was”"
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The World's Fastest Ballgame
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Mark Eveleigh
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Spain
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Catalunya
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Pamplona
"With his beret clamped under his arm and a cigar and a glass of patxaran liquor lodged in his thick fingers, Asensio seems to be the archetypical Jai Alai spectator..."