Inspiring Travel Writing from Lucretia Stewart: Page 2 of 3
Articles by Lucretia Stewart: Page 2 of 3
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Among the Cao Dai
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Lucretia Stewart
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Vietnam
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Southern Vietnam
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Tay Ninh
In a small, octagonal pavilion, a group of elderly woman dressed in long, white robes are arranging their hair. It has to be very smooth, not a hair out of place, and twisted into a neat, round bun at the nape of the neck. Some of them also cover...
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Cambodia
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Lucretia Stewart
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Cambodia
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Phnom Penh Region
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Phnom Penh
In his memoir, River of Time, Jon Swain recalls, from the early months of 1975, a group of journalists in Phnom Penh sitting round the pool of the Hôtel le Phnom and singing a ditty composed by James Fenton, who was then writing for the New...
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Lotus Season
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Lucretia Stewart
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Cambodia
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Phnom Penh Region
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Phnom Penh
The day before I arrived in Phnom Penh, there was an attack outside the National Assembly. Four grenades had been thrown into a demonstration organized by the Khmer Nation Party; the demonstrators were protesting against judicial corruption. As my...
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Barbados
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Lucretia Stewart
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Barbados
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Central Barbados
For many, Barbados is the paradise island, the embodiment of the Caribbean dream. In the early 1990s, an ad on London’s Capital Radio would urge listeners to ‘Reach out for blue skies, Reach out for paradise, Reach out for Barbados.’ In reality, by...
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Malaysia
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Lucretia Stewart
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Malaysia
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West Coast
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Perak
In Malaysia, it was the season for durian. As we drove up the west coast away from Kuala Lumpur and into the countryside, the rich, rotten reek of South East Asia's most prized fruit scented the air from the roadside stalls where great piles of the...
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Sicily
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Lucretia Stewart
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Italy
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Sicily
Sicily's best-known export is the Mafia, which, despite the best efforts of certain brave and incorruptible judges, continues to flourish. Fortunately, though it is impossible to pretend that the Mafia doesn't exist, its activities rarely affect the...
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Notes from Morocco
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Lucretia Stewart
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Morocco
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Atlantic Coast
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Essaouira
In the foothills of the western High Atlas Mountains, the great mountain chain that stretches across Morocco to Algeria and the Sahara, there is place called Immouzer des Ida Outanane (there is another Immouzer, Immouzer du Kandar just south of Fes...
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Greek Easter
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Lucretia Stewart
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Greece
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Cyclades (south)
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Naxos
It’s Easter Sunday. At last. We seem to have been waiting forever. Easter is late in Greece this year; Orthodox Easter falls, as it does every four years, over a month after the rest of the Christian world has celebrated Christ’s resurrection....
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Dalat
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Lucretia Stewart
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Vietnam
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Central Highlands
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Dalat
When Norman Lewis, the veteran British travel writer, visited Dalat in 1950, he described it as “the playground of Indo-China.” Today, over fifty years later, as Vietnam’s premier resort, it still merits the description, though it presents something...
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Penang
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Lucretia Stewart
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Malaysia
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West Coast
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Penang
I had forgotten how green Penang was. I had forgotten, in the ten years I hadn’t been there, the way that the island always seemed drenched in greenness, in vegetation, which sprang recklessly from every nook and cranny. There is an air of careless...
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