Inspiring Travel Writing from AA Gill: Page 3 of 4
Articles by AA Gill: Page 3 of 4
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Cuba
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AA Gill
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Cuba
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Havana Region
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Havana
December 31, 1958, the National Hotel: the great stone good-time fortress on a rock overlooking Havana’s harbour. A New Year’s party is in full swing. Cuba’s upper crust, rich on sugar and spice and all things nice, and the backs of peasant labour,...
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Why Go To Edinburgh?
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AA Gill
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United Kingdom
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Edinburgh Region
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Edinburgh
Things to do in Edinburgh
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Ethiopia
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AA Gill
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Ethiopia
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Addis Ababa Region
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Addis Ababa
Ethiopia. Named ‘land of the sunburnt people’ by the Greeks and Abassinya, ‘land of the mixed people’, by the Arabs. Ethiopians don’t like being called Abassinyans; they think ‘mix’ sounds pejorative, though naturally they do sometimes say they eat...
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Before You Die: Rajvilas
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AA Gill
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India
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Rajasthan
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Jaipur
Phenomenal place, very luxurious.
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Phoenix, Arizona
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AA Gill
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United States
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Arizona
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Phoenix
America is a great place for names. The country that invented modern advertising knew the value of a hard-selling moniker with all the right connotations. But New Jersey couldn't be less like the Channel Islands, thank god, and Philadelphia, city of...
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Game Boy
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AA Gill
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Tanzania
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Northern Tanzania
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Serengeti
Tanzania, January 1998. The Serengeti: under the lowering anvil nimbus, electric storms stutter on the horizon. The shimmering burnt-orange African sun plummets; a hot wind sways the social weavers’ intricately constructed nests in the whistling...
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Selassie Come Home
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AA Gill
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Ethiopia
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Addis Ababa Region
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Addis Ababa
Ethiopa, December 2000. First the good news. The long rains have finished and they were long enough, deep, thick and wet enough. Ethiopia is expecting a beneficent harvest, so that’s a relief, or an absence of relief. You won’t have to wear the T–...
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The Town that Russia Forgot
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AA Gill
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Russia
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Baltic Coast
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Kaliningrad
Kaliningrad, June 2001. “Hello, I’m Victor, Special Forces frogman, I’m your driver for today.” Victor is a poppet. He coaxes his hyperventilating Volkswagen, with its flag of the Baltic fleet hanging from the rear-view mirror as a warning to...
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Born to be Riled
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AA Gill
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United States
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California
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Los Angeles
Looking over the balcony of my hotel room, directly beneath me, 12 floors down, is the swimming pool, a patent medicinal blue, not quite kidney-shaped, more spleen with attached gall bladder. There’s a man swimming slow, curvy lengths; it’s 6.30am,...
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Ride'em, Chowboy
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AA Gill
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Chile
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Patagonia
Argentina, January 2001. A publisher once told me that the best way to absolutely guarantee never to sell a book was to write one about South America. “It’s amazing,” he said, “It’s the great remaindered continent....
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