Inspiring Travel Writing from Jim Keeble
Jim Keeble is 36 and writes regularly for the travel pages of the UK's Daily and Sunday Telegraph, the Times and Sunday Times and the London Evening Standard. His travel book, Independence Day - Travels Around America with a Broken Heart, is published by Abacus, and his two novels, My Fat Brother and The A-Z of Us, are published by Penguin. He writes about anywhere that offers strange stories and frothy cocktails, in particular the Mediterranean, Middle East and the Americas.
Articles by Jim Keeble
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Tangier Island
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Jim Keeble
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United States
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Virginia
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Tangier Island
I needed to get away from America. From all-you-can-eat shrimp buffets, drive-in dry cleaners and most of all, adverts for hemorrhoid creams on daytime TV. The only problem was, my ticket home wasn’t for another week, and I hadn’t enough cash to get...
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Islands
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Jim Keeble
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Croatia
As the small boat chugs away, we stand on a slender quay with two bags of clothes, a bag of food and seven bottles of wine, watching its wake. ‘A week,’ she says. ‘A week,’ I confirm. We watch until the boat disappears and...
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Home on the range - Dude ranching in Arizona
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Jim Keeble
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United States
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Arizona
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Phoenix
Lucky looks at me. I look at Lucky. The age old eye-balling of horse and human, beast and man sizing each other up. ‘Good horse,’ I say. ‘Nice horse.’ Lucky whinnies and paws the ground. He’s already decided who’s boss on this trail. And it isn’t...
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Holiday Romance
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Jim Keeble
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France
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Provence
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If you’re single (and maybe if you’re not) and you’re heading off on your summer holidays in the next few weeks, chances are at the back of your mind is the possibility of a Cretan cuddle, a Sardinian snog, a Benidorm love-bite, or...
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Iles d’Hyeres
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Jim Keeble
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France
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Riviera Cote d'Azur
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Iles d'Hyeres
Romance was called for. We’d argued in the midst of bustling Cannes. We’d argued in the tour-bus busy streets of St. Tropez. The Riviera was filling up for its summer invasion of eight million tourists and Liz was in the process of hating them all....
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Riding in Spain
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Jim Keeble
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Spain
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Catalunya
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Pyrenees
‘Imagine you’re having sex,’ shouts Mick. I try not to think too deeply about this, given that my partner is a large brown horse. But I do start to rise and fall in time with the trotting. It’s not exactly sex, more survival, but it is a lot more...
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Draa Valley Drive
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Jim Keeble
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Morocco
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Southern Morocco
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Ouarzazate
It’s probably my favourite drive in the world. You begin in scorched Ouarzazate in southern Morocco, more accessible than it sounds and full of tour buses, and end in the first sands of the Sahara. In between are burned mountains, red-clay villages...
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Why Go To New York?
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Jim Keeble
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United States
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New York State
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New York
New York is the world’s greatest city, a celebration of all that is exhilarating about urban living. It’s also noisy, dirty, hectic, rude and expensive, but it possesses an electricity found nowhere else on earth. There are few greater...
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Solid as a Rock
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Jim Keeble
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Gibraltar
“Solid as the Rock of Gibraltar!” my Gran liked to exclaim, referring to anything from her back to the state of the British economy. As Gibraltar prepares to celebrate Trafalgar Day on Monday and gears up for a referendum on power-...
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Barefoot Luxury in the Maldives
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Jim Keeble
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Maldives
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Maldives Region
They’ve stolen my shoes. After thirteen hours on a plane, a smiling man has placed them firmly into a bag labelled “No News, No Shoes” and pulled the draw-string tight. I am now barefoot in the Maldives. I feel distinctly uncomfortable. Some people...