Inspiring Travel Writing from Ben Mallalieu: Page 4 of 4
Articles by Ben Mallalieu: Page 4 of 4
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Dorset
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Ben Mallalieu
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United Kingdom
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South West England
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Dorset
Just before Christmas 1943, the people of Tyneham were evicted from their homes when the army suddenly requisitioned the village to extend its firing range. As they left, one of the villagers pinned a note to the church door: “Please treat the...
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Icaria
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Ben Mallalieu
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Greece
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Aegean Islands
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Icaria
People don’t like high fliers who come unstuck. “Got above himself,” they say. Few see Icarus as a romantic hero, a rebel against the conformity of the middle way; or, like Yeats’s Irish airman, driven by a lonely impulse of delight to his tumult in...
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Shabbington
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Ben Mallalieu
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United Kingdom
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South East England
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Buckinghamshire
One afternoon in the summer of 1962, my mother drove into the pub. The car was a 10-year-old Daimler and the pub was The Old Fisherman in Shabbington on the border of Buckinghamshire and Oxford. A narrow road lead straight down from the top of the...
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Where the Wild Things Aren't: Wolf Watching in Eastern Poland
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Ben Mallalieu
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Poland
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Eastern Poland
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Warsaw
I am sitting in a high seat in a dark East European forest in the snow, waiting for the wolves - very cold it is too, and these words are forming like snowflakes in my head largely because there is not a lot else to do. It’s like being in a...
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My Island in the Rain
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Ben Mallalieu
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United Kingdom
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Isle of Wight
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Isle of Wight
There isn’t a new Wight. Like the old joke about “where do you find a tortoise with no legs?” the island is pretty much where you last left it, which in most people’s case was a long time ago in the days before cheap flights when family holidays...
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A Guide to Matala, Crete
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Ben Mallalieu
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Greece
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Crete Island
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Crete Town
I always regretted not going to Matala. One night in the early 70s, I was sleeping on a park bench in Munich in the snow, but the police woke me up: "If you cannot afford a hotel, you should go home," they said in that very sensible Germanic way,...
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Slovenian Dumps: A Trip to Lake Bohinj
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Ben Mallalieu
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Slovenia
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Ljubljana Region
Lake Bohinj is an odd choice for a dump, not least because it both beautiful and unspoilt. The water is very deep and still, and the lake is surrounded by fir and alder forests, alpine meadows, mountains, knobbly churches, wooden hayracks, wild...
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