Inspiring Travel Writing from Andrew Eames
Andrew Eames started in journalism in Southeast Asia as a contributor to the Straits Times. In the UK, he edited magazines Frontier and Business Traveller and was Executive Editor of guidebook publisher Insight Guides before going freelance. He writes regularly for travel sections of the Times, Evening Standard, Daily Express, and for magazines such as High Life and Sunday Times Travel. He also contributes non-travel human-interest features to several publications.
His latest book, The 8.55 to Baghdad (Transworld/Corgi) was serialised on BBC Radio Four and won the Guild of Travel Writers award for Narrative Travel Book of 2004. Previous books are Crossing the Shadow Line and Four Scottish Journeys. Television work includes consultancy for BBC's Great Railway Journeys and script writing for On the Horizon.
Eames is married, has two very well-travelled children and lives in London.
His latest book, The 8.55 to Baghdad (Transworld/Corgi) was serialised on BBC Radio Four and won the Guild of Travel Writers award for Narrative Travel Book of 2004. Previous books are Crossing the Shadow Line and Four Scottish Journeys. Television work includes consultancy for BBC's Great Railway Journeys and script writing for On the Horizon.
Eames is married, has two very well-travelled children and lives in London.
Articles by Andrew Eames
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Canoeing on the Charente River
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Andrew Eames
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France
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Poitou-Charentes
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La Rochelle
Somewhere just west of Jarnac, southwest France, Thomas (aged four) and I came up with a new song. It was sung to the tune of “She'll be coming round the Mountain”, with lyrics that had been specially created for the occasion: “We're coming down the...
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Bed & Breakfasting with the French Aristocracy
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Andrew Eames
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France
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Brittany Region
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Hillion
The Comte Bernard de Jouffroy Gonsans, sallow, stooped and deeply courteous, had the air of someone who knew his Baudelaire; he may have been born with the proverbial silver spoon, but his back had been bent by life's ups and downs. He commiserated...
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The West Coast of India by Train
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Andrew Eames
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India
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Maharashtra
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Mumbai (Bombay)
It was still dark when the train left Bombay, and in a way I was grateful. Railways take you through peoples' back yards, and Bombay's back yard is a parade of slum-dwellings and naked fly-bothered children, streaked with dried tears. As it was,...
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Before You Die: Visit a Samburu Village
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Andrew Eames
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Kenya
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Samburi National Park
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Samburu
Kenya: Take a child into a Samburu village in Northern Kenya and witness his/her amazement at mud and wattle huts, Samburu clothing and weapons. Andrew Eames
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Before You Die: Charter a Houseboat
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Andrew Eames
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United States
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Arizona
United States: Charter a houseboat on Lake Powell, which straddles Arizona and Utah. The lake is effectively a Grand Canyon filled with water; there is no greenery, just yellow and red rock rising from deep blue water. An extraordinary visual...
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Before You Die: Sleep in Hay Barns
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Andrew Eames
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Germany
Germany: Cycle between the so-called "hay hotels" of northern Germany, sleeping in hay barns and feeling fully justified in tucking in to huge farmhouse breakfasts.
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Before You Die: Wake Up in a Banyan Tree
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Andrew Eames
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India
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Kerala Region
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Kerala City
India: Wake up to the dawn birdsong in a four poster bed 80ft up a banyan tree in the mountainous rainforest of Kerala. The Green Magic resort has three such treehouses, all with their own en suite bathrooms. Andrew Eames
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Arizona & Utah
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Andrew Eames
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United States
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Arizona
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Grand Canyon
The Four Corners states are the high and dry lands of Southwestern America, savagely beautiful arrangements of rock, cactus, heat and snow, and home to cougar, bear and scorpion. Averaging 6,000ft above sea level - 50 percent higher than Britain's...
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Ontario Resorts
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Andrew Eames
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Canada
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Ontario
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Algonquin Provincial Park
We were paddling up the Oxtongue towards Ragged Falls, through a canyon of spruce and sugar maple under a deep blue sky. A resting tortoise raised a watchful head from an abandoned beaver lodge to make sure we kept our distance. Small-mouthed bass...
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Oasis Holidays in Tunisia
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Andrew Eames
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Tunisia
In the tourism business, holidays in the desert are something of a final frontier. The ocean floor and Outer Space apart, this is practically the only as-nature-intended environment that has yet to be extensively featured in the brochures. Sun, sea...