Inspiring Travel Writing from John Borthwick: Page 9 of 14
Articles by John Borthwick: Page 9 of 14
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Some Like it Hot
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John Borthwick
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New Zealand
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North Island
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Rotorua
The mud of Rotorua boils like killer porridge while geysers vent their steamy spleen. This might be a magical landscape of dragons exhaling, even down to the pervasive, sulphurous aroma - the term "last one in is a rotten egg" certainly comes to...
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Wild at Heart Wyoming
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John Borthwick
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United States
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Wyoming
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Cody
Wyoming, "the Cowboy State", looks like the Nullarbor Plain on a Himalayan holiday. Its name comes from a Delaware Indian word meaning "on the great plain" and its 253,500 sq. kilometres range from Rocky snow peaks to hot springs to truly great...
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My Perfect Day in Bali
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John Borthwick
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Indonesia
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Nusa Tenggara/ Southeast Islands
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Bali
DawnLovina Beach, north coast. It’s dolphin hour and I’m up early, stumbling into an outrigger canoe; the boatman jerks its outboard to life and, along with a score of other boats, we set off in pursuit of the pods of small grey dolphins that cruise...
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The Silk Road
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John Borthwick
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China
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Shaanxi
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Xi'an
Pliny the Elder, that relentless chronicler of the foibles of ancient Rome, was struck by the huge sums his fellow citizens were splurging on silk. He might have been equally struck by the tortuous path that the exotic fabric had to travel to reach...
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The Island of Romance
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John Borthwick
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United States
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California
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Santa Catalina
In 1846 Pio Pico, the last Mexican Governor of Upper California, found himself in desperate straits; he was in a sense, up the creek without a horse. The Union Army was advancing, about to confiscate yet another vast slab of Mexican territory and...
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San Diego
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John Borthwick
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United States
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California
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San Diego
"We apologise if you are inconvenienced by the solicitors outside the gate. The Zoo does not endorse their activity," warns a sign displayed at the exit of San Diego Zoo. Few British visitors fail to laugh at the sign, and many snap photographs....
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The Great Ocean Road
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John Borthwick
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Australia
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Victoria
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Melbourne
If the Great Ocean Road were a symphony, it might be an al fresco blast of Dvorak's "New World" alternating with Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" - such is its span of mood and images. This road that loops like a roller coaster along the...
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New Zealand Thrills
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John Borthwick
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New Zealand
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South Island
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Queenstown
New Zealand, once thought of as a somnolent English suburb in the South Seas, has reinvented itself as the adrenaline capital of the Southern Hemisphere. For those visitors interested in more than cannoning down ski slopes, the South Island in...
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Dales and Ales
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John Borthwick
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United Kingdom
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Midlands
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Oakham
"The M1 ain't much fun, unless you're doin' the ton," claimed a 1960s English pop song. Not so. The M1, England's best-known motorway, offers plenty, especially to the traveler who pulls off the motorway and turns straight into, say, the 15th...
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Kiwi Coach Potato Syndrome
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John Borthwick
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New Zealand
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North Island
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Rotorua
Clutching his old plastic travel bag Norman Gunston, that one-man Aussie razor gang, used to swear he suffered not from jet lag but bus lag. I know the feeling. It strikes on day two of our six-day coach tour of the North Island of New Zealand. Each...
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