Inspiring Travel Writing from John Borthwick: Page 4 of 14
Articles by John Borthwick: Page 4 of 14
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The Best Worst Job in the World
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John Borthwick
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France
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Provence
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After 16 years as a full-time travel journalist-photographer, my response to this is, well, absolute ambivalence. Travel writing is the best worst job in the world. Like most professional writing, good travel journalism hinges on research —...
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Tonga: Linger Longer
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John Borthwick
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Tonga
Think of Tonga as a low-rise Tahiti. Polynesia minus the volcanic peaks and randy Gauguin mystique. In place of these — not to mention Gallic pride and Parisian prices — Tonga gives you perfect sailing through water-maze archipelagos,...
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Sikkim: A Not-Quite Fairytale
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John Borthwick
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India
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Sikkim
Extreme hypergamy — the art of marrying radically upwards — involves vaulting from plebeian to princess in two easy syllables: "I do". Right royal levitations of note in the past half-century include Camilla to Charles, Grace to Rainier...
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New Caledonia's Loyalty Islands
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John Borthwick
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New Caledonia
James Cook was a stickler for the tradition of giving improbable, ‘Anglophoney’ names to South Pacific shores that bear scant resemblance to their northern hemisphere namesakes. in 1774 Cook proprietarily tagged New Caledonia and its...
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Lombok Rocks
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John Borthwick
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Indonesia
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Nusa Tenggara/ Southeast Islands
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Lombok
Lombok, a haven of calm compared to the hullabaloo of southern Bali, has relatively few tourists and no thumping party scene — although the dreaded karaoke virus is spreading. Its main tourism enclave, on the west coast around Senggigi Beach,...
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Bangkok's Timeless Island
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John Borthwick
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Thailand
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Bangkok Region
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Bangkok
With five other riders, I am cruising towards Koh Kret, an island that sits in a kink in the Chao Phraya River just 20 km north of Bangkok’s neutron accelerator CBD. Our guide on this easy, one-day ride (operated by Spice Roads cycle touring...
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Hotel Marquis Reforma
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John Borthwick
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Mexico
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Central Mexico
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Mexico City
Twenty million people surround you. Not that you'd know it when you're in the Hotel Marquis Reforma, on Paseo de la Reforma, at the heart of Mexico City, the most populous settlement on earth. A grand layer cake of civilisations, Mexico D.F. (as it...
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Kims Beachside Retreat
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John Borthwick
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Australia
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New South Wales
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Toowoon Bay
You've got the moonlight dialled-in just right on the sentinel pines that frame your beach-house. The shore break nocturne rolls up from the surf. Towoon Bay could be To-swoon Bay. Kims Beachside Retreat seems to have been here forever (in fact, it'...
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Lilianfels Blue Mountains Resort & Spa
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John Borthwick
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Australia
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New South Wales
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Katoomba
The Blue Mountains were already ancient when the Grand Canyon was just a wrinkle on Arizona's brow. Rather more recently, the Lilianfels mansion at Katoomba was built in the 1890s as the country residence of a former NSW Chief Justice at a time when...
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Cape Lodge
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John Borthwick
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Australia
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Western Australia
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Yallingup
The traveller seeking accommodation at Cape Lodge near Yallingup, can meander through cathedrals of karri forest at Borunup, stumble upon turquoise waters at Geographe Bay and cruise through old timber towns whose notable features range from banana...
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