Inspiring Travel Writing from John Borthwick: Page 10 of 14
Articles by John Borthwick: Page 10 of 14
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Of Art and War on Broken Hill
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John Borthwick
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Australia
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New South Wales
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Broken Hill
'Stinking rotten damn place!' You can tell Ron Schipanski's in love. After 37 years he's still enamoured of this tunnel 130 metres beneath Broken Hill. Ron's entitled to bad-mouth Delprat's Mine, having spent half his life down it, first as a miner...
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Wyoming: True West and Weird
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John Borthwick
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United States
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Wyoming
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Cody
‘Truckers out there,’ drawls the husky voice coming over our car CB radio, ‘Anyone wanna kill an hour or two, see where the deer and the antelope play?’ We’re in the Badlands of Wyoming on a ribbon of mountain highway. Not a soul to be seen. Just...
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Seychelles By the Sea Shore
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John Borthwick
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Seychelles
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La Digue Region
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La Digue
The original Garden of Eden? So thought General George Gordon when he reached the lush island of Praslin in the Seychelles. After seeing Praslin's most spectacular tree, the coco-de-mer, Gordon (who met a celebrated but sticky end at the siege of...
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The Land of Heart's Desire
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John Borthwick
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Ireland
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East Coast Ireland
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Dublin
“The health of the salmon to you — a sound heart and a wet mouth.” Ancient Irish toast Ireland. Land of saints and scholars, sinners and Guinness. Where else could you drive through a green-on-green landscape, looking for somewhere like Tubbercurry...
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Cool Grey City of Love
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John Borthwick
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United States
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California
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San Francisco
With a rather broad flourish, Rudyard Kipling described 19th century San Francisco as "a mad city, inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of remarkable beauty." I stand in pretty Huntington Park — it crowns this city’...
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Palawan: Nest of Dreams
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John Borthwick
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Philippines
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Visayas
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Palawan
In reality, no lagoon in Palawan is as intensely turquoise as the souvenir T-shirt I brought back from there. Yet every time I pull on that old shirt it's like slipping into a memory — Palawan floods my mind. I see its upstart isles that rise like...
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Life of Pai
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John Borthwick
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Thailand
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The North
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Chiang Mai
With 2073 bends in the tortuous road between the northern Thailand towns of Chiang Mai and Mae Hong Son, it is little wonder that many travellers leap off the bus off at Pai, mid-way along the 248-km route. “I stopped here for a day — three weeks...
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Pho Quoc Island
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John Borthwick
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Vietnam
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Southern Vietnam
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Phu Quoc
Phu Quoc is the classic “before” model of a tropical island. The kind of place you might find just before the forward scouts of “after” arrive — the schemers and avaricious dreamers for whom paradise is never enough. Shaped like a mini-South America...
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Vigan: A piece of Spain in Asia
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John Borthwick
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Philippines
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Luzon
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Vigan
"I have the highest-placed job in the country — but with the lowest pay," quipped Ruben Labugen, the keeper of the ornate old Spanish lighthouse whose seemingly endless spiral staircase I was climbing. It was clear that this tower, built in 1892 on...
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The Many-Hued Danube
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John Borthwick
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Hungary
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Budapest Region
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Budapest
The Blue Danube is brown — at least when I first see it in Budapest. According to romantics, the River Danube looks blue when you’re in love, but green if it’s a one-sided affair, grey when the passion’s gone and black when it’s all over. Brown...
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