Inspiring Travel Writing from Mark Eveleigh: Page 5 of 7
Articles by Mark Eveleigh: Page 5 of 7
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Jousting With Giants
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Mark Eveleigh
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Botswana
As we saddled up for our four-day ‘patrol,’ I felt like a raw recruit preparing for a Boer war skirmish. Trailmaster Steve Rufus’s pre-ride briefing enhanced the feeling that we were about to enter hostile terrain: “I’m...
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Ship of Stone
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Mark Eveleigh
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Spain
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Castilla-Leon
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Segovia
Legend has it that, way back in days of yore, the Devil fell in love with a beautiful girl from the Spanish town of Segovia. He watched her every morning as she made the long walk down from her home to collect water into the valley and - as is often...
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Spain: Interview with a Bullfighter
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Mark Eveleigh
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Spain
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Madrid Region
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Madrid
“Si hombre, she’s truly a good dog." The young man was explaining to me the history of the dog’s breed. “She’s an Alano Español – a Spanish bull-herding dog” - sleek and agile, and as far removed from a British bulldog as a fighting bull is from a...
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Granada: Europe's most African City
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Mark Eveleigh
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Spain
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Andalucia (Granada)
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Granada
‘An African paradise set under the Sierras like a rose preserved in snow’ is possibly the best description that Granada will ever be awarded. The writer Laurie Lee had already hiked the length of the country when he fell in love with this intensely...
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Fez: The Imperial Beehive
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Mark Eveleigh
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Morocco
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Northern Morocco
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Fez
Bab Boujeloud is the main gateway into Old Fez. Tiled blue on the outside and green facing inward, it could represent the two facets in the character of the ‘Fassi’ people. The blue - the colour of Islam - declares the city’s faith and reasserts its...
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Let it Rain Down: Zimbabwe
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Mark Eveleigh
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Zimbabwe
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Zambezi National Park Region
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Victoria Falls
Alistair Coulson, his wife and a handful of frightened workers had been surrounded by war vets for three days when I arrived on their Esigodini farm, near Bulawayo. The vets had been brought in and re-supplied with government vehicles and though the...
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Waterworld
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Mark Eveleigh
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Brunei Darussalam
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Brunei Region
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Brunei City
‘Life moves a lot faster around Kampong Ayer than it did in the old days. Just arriving in Asia’s largest stilted water-village can be an exhilarating experience. There are taxi-boats in cities all over South East Asia but even the ‘longtails’ of...
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In the Hoof-prints of El Cid
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Mark Eveleigh
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Spain
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Castilla-La Mancha
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Toledo
“Viva la Virgen de Guadalupe!” And six shot glasses were obediently raised heavenwards for the umpteenth time in honour of the guardian of a remote Spanish province that few of my fellow travellers had ever even seen. “Viva José Manuel’s mum!”...
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Buffalo Soldiers
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Mark Eveleigh
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Indonesia
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Nusa Tenggara/ Southeast Islands
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Bali
It is a typically peaceful and picturesque Balinese dawn. Mist clings to the hills of western Bali and, still further to westward, the peaks of Java are already reflecting the first golden heat of the day. The sound of birdsong carries clearly...
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Don Justo and the Home-made Cathedral
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Mark Eveleigh
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Spain
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Madrid Region
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Madrid
Eighty-year-old Justo Gallego Martínez has spent the last forty-four years building a ‘home-made cathedral,’ single-handed, in a village near Madrid. The locals of Mejorada del Campo have traditionally known the building as ‘la catedral del loco’...
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