Home › Travel Writing › Writers › Mark Jolly › Page 2 of 2

Inspiring Travel Writing from Mark Jolly: Page 2 of 2

Articles by Mark Jolly: Page 2 of 2

  • The Far Side | Mark Jolly | Argentina | Patagonia | El Calafate
    “Is that brown or is that green?” inquired a voice a few rows back as our flight came in to land at El Calafate. Like most things Patagonian, even the color of the mud-olive steppe was elusive. Loosely defined as the vast windswept wilderness...
    Read article
  • Samoa Comes of Age | Mark Jolly | Samoa
    The sun is already slipping away as we race toward the end of the world, where the last hour of every day ends. From the dirt track, I can see the skeletal remains of the old Catholic church, the only man-made thing left standing eight years after...
    Read article
  • Song of Brazil | Mark Jolly | Brazil | Rio and the Southeast | Rio de Janeiro
    It's an average Wednesday night in January at the Portela samba school. Three thousand people are dancing, singing, and drumming under a sweltering summer sky in preparation for Carnaval. A 300-strong bateria, the drum-and-percussion section, drives...
    Read article
  • Sea Change: Cornwall | Mark Jolly | United Kingdom | Devon and Cornwall | Cornwall
    What's the first thing you think of when you hear the following four words: Chic English Seaside Vacation? You might be forgiven for assuming that this is some sort of trick question. Until recently, even the Brits themselves would have thought you...
    Read article
  • Buenos Aires | Mark Jolly | Argentina | Buenos Aires and the Pampas | Buenos Aires
    Wedged amid the backstreets of La Boca, the working-class Italian district of Buenos Aires, El Obrero is the kind of steakhouse even streetwise locals make a point of visiting by taxi. Outside, it’s all abandoned factories and decaying dockyards....
    Read article

  • Reviews by Mark Jolly: Page 2 of 2

    Plaza Athenee | Mark Jolly
    The Plaza Athenee is the sort of luxury hotel that can - and often does - run at full occupancy, yet you don't even know it. A short stroll from Central Park in New York, the 80-year-old property morphed from a residential into a commercial luxury...
    More
  • Hotel Grace | Mark Jolly
    Entering the Hotel Grace in New York for the first time, you could be forgiven for mistaking it for a sweet shop. That's because the front desk of this budget boutique hotel is dressed in the guise of - and actually doubles as - a kiosk, selling...
    More
See Mark Jolly biography | See all travel writers | Browse all travel writing