Inspiring Travel Writing from Mark Eveleigh: Page 6 of 7
Articles by Mark Eveleigh: Page 6 of 7
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Turkish Delight
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Mark Eveleigh
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Turkey
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Marmara
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Buyukada
With a guttural command and a flick of the whip Dimitri spurred his horses into first gear. “I’ve been driving a fayton since I was fourteen years old,” he said, “but I’ve never in my life learned to drive a car.” Since Dimitri has lived all his...
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Saving the Rhino
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Mark Eveleigh
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Kenya
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Nairobi Region
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Nairobi
‘Even as the rhino charged I knew that I should be climbing a tree. But the wispy acacia trees around me were all too insubstantial to take my weight and there was no escape. Luckily, as rhino charges go, this was also a fairly insubstantial one so...
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Part of the Stampede
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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, 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."- Ernest Hemingway At noon on the sixth of July the chupinazo (rocket) explodes above Pamplona's baroque...
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Voyage of the Toftevaag
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Mark Eveleigh
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Spain
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Costa de la Luz
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Puerto de Santa Maria
“Cetacean soup at two o’clock!” was the traditional call to action-stations from spotters in the crow’s nest of the Toftevaag. It would signify that the sea was ‘boiling’ with a herd of anything up to eight hundred dolphins. Then a group of...
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Overland Uncovered: South America
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Mark Eveleigh
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Peru
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Sacred Valley & Machu Picchu
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Cuzco
Having backpacked through the region almost a decade ago, I was particularly excited about returning to South America, to see how an organised overland trip would compare to those days of footloose (if often undirected) solo wandering. We would be...
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The Donkey's Advocate
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Mark Eveleigh
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Spain
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Andalucia (Cordoba)
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Rute
“I can fore-see a time when the donkey will take its place alongside the dove as an icon of peace,” says Pascual Rovira. “This is an animal that has been unjustly maligned and mistreated throughout history and it’s time that serious respect was paid...
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Hi-Tech Old-town
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Mark Eveleigh
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Spain
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Andalucia (Cordoba)
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Cordoba
Walking around Cordoba’s sleepy alleyways these days it can be hard to imagine that this was once one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world, a centre of learning and trade that was rivalled only by Damascus and Baghdad. This Andalusian city...
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Surfing the Golden Triangle
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Mark Eveleigh
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Portugal
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Algarve Region
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Ericeira
The pale turquoise of the reef shimmered under my board as I paddled towards a perfect A-frame peak that was peeling off the edge of a submarine rock-slab. The first heat of the spring sun was just beginning to build but already the water was warm...
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A Guide to Marrakech: The Nearest Orient
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Mark Eveleigh
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Morocco
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Marrakech Region
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Marrakech
The swaying date-palms and soaring blood-red walls of Marrakech were said to bring tears to the eyes even of tough Tuareg traders as their caravans arrived from the Sahara with cargos of salt, spices and slaves. Berber nomads came here to gaze in...
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A Zimbabwe Dispatch
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Mark Eveleigh
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Zimbabwe
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Zambezi National Park Region
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Harare
At a traffic island on the edge of Harare a single crippled beggar is lying by the road. Across the front of his ragged t-shirt the print is still legible: ‘Vote Zanu PF – Robert Mugabe for Students.’ He is clearly oblivious to the irony as he holds...
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