Inspiring Travel Writing from Mark Eveleigh: Page 3 of 7
Articles by Mark Eveleigh: Page 3 of 7
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The Big Wet Red
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Mark Eveleigh
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Australia
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South Australia
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Oodnadatta Track
Oodna-bloody-datta (anonymous) This bloody town’s a bloody cuss, No bloody trains, no bloody bus, And no one cares for bloody us, In Oodna-bloody-datta. Just bloody heat and bloody flies, The bloody sweat runs in your eyes, And when it...
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Secrets of the Lost World
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Mark Eveleigh
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Guatemala
A Guatemalan radio station once ran a brief news report on a team from a certain European museum who were, with full government approval, transporting artefacts from the ancient city of Tikal to the airport in the capital. The announcement excited...
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Morocco – The Northern Frontier
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Mark Eveleigh
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Morocco
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Northern Morocco
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Chefchaouen
Legend has it that Hercules once pulled the two continents of the Old World apart at the point where Djebal Tarik (now Gibraltar) and Djebal Musa, the two Pillars of Hercules, lie today. As you stand on the northern pinnacle of Africa on a clear day...
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Old Man of the Forest
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Mark Eveleigh
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Indonesia
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Sumatra
Gunung Leuser, in northern Sumatra, is one of the biggest national parks in the world. Its steep, rainforested valleys and hills are home to gibbons, monkeys, elephants and some of the Indonesia’s last tigers and rhinoceroses. I would be happy...
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Candy-Coated, Stream-Lined Rocket Ships
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Mark Eveleigh
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Spain
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Catalunya
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Barcelona
Vibrant, vivacious and vanguardista, Barcelona has become famous as one of Europe’s most exciting and cosmopolitan cities. Basking in the balmy Mediterranean breeze, yet within easy reach of the slopes of the high Pyrenees, it is not surprising that...
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Sumatra: On a Wing and a Prayer
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Mark Eveleigh
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Indonesia
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Sumatra
Jakarta’s Sunda Kelapa harbour is the perfect place for a first introduction to the span and diversity of one of the world’s most exciting countries. At this bustling Asian port you can see statuesque Bugis schooners, fresh from the...
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The World's Fastest Ballgame
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Mark Eveleigh
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Spain
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Catalunya
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Pamplona
The vicious slap of a leather ball on a stone wall is the ubiquitous soundtrack to Saturday afternoon in any Basque or Navarran village. It was a sound that once echoed around the world as the driving force for a multi-million dollar gambling...
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Overlanding Uncovered: Africa
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Mark Eveleigh
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Kenya
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Nairobi Region
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Nairobi
Apart from a bout of malaria, a box-jellyfish attack, a baboon raid, a lost passport, and one girl getting mauled by a lion, the trip went off with surprisingly few mishaps. No one was incarcerated for dealing with black-market money-changers, no...
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Out with the Old, In with the Nudes
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Mark Eveleigh
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Spain
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Navarra
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Pamplona
“Pamplona is changed of course,” wrote Hemingway, during one of his last visits to the fiestas of San Fermin, “but not as much as we are older. I found that if you took a drink it got very much the same as it always was.” In the 1950s the San...
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Spain’s Temples of Wine
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Mark Eveleigh
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Spain
You approach Elciego - as with most Riojan villages - across a corduroy patchwork of vines. Pilgrims travelling across this holy trail were once lured by the soaring sandstone towers of the village’s mighty church. But a new type of wayfarer is now...
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