Inspiring Travel Writing from Jess Hill
Articles by Jess Hill
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Burgundy with the Countess
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Jess Hill
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France
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Burgundy Region
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Burgundy
“That is the Queen of Sheba. She has a fickle heart.” The drawing room glowed warm in the presence of an open fire, in front of which lay the accused: a corpulent tabby squinting tightly against the heat. The Countess took off her coat...
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Heaven can wait
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Jess Hill
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Mauritius
The rain started in small spills on the windscreen. Six retirees heaved into the Club Med mini-bus, followed gingerly by umbilical young newlyweds. Evening was slowly claiming Mauritius as we turned onto the country’s only highway, a gift from...
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21st-Century Devotee
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Jess Hill
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India
I was just shy of my 12th birthday when I found out I was going to hell. My two best friends broke the news to me as the odour of a perfect Sunday's barbecue watered our mouths, assuring me my accommodation there was confirmed because I hadn't been...
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Places that inspired
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Jess Hill
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Switzerland
1. Château de Chillon, Lake Geneva, Switzerland Inspired Lord Byron’s The Prisoner of Chillon It was 1816, and the violent eruptions of Indonesia’s Mount Tambora the year before had engulfed the world in a volcanic winter. On Lake...
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Never trust a vegetarian
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Jess Hill
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France
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Ile-de-France
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Paris
Most English dictionaries define gourmand as someone who is gluttonous, and enjoys overeating. The diminutive, energetic woman that was waving to me by the Oberkampf Metro in the Marais district was, like the majority of Parisians, tiny, and if...