Inspiring Travel Writing from Maureen Barry
Maureen Barry was a regular contributor of travel, food and wine features to British Airways Highlife magazine for many years. She also contributed to other titles in the Premier group, national magazines and newspapers. She was a partner in an Internet Information company and wrote regularly for the web.
Maureen was passionate about many things, among them travel, food and wine. She held a BA degree in Russian and French from London University and has one published novel, Brilliant.
Maureen was passionate about many things, among them travel, food and wine. She held a BA degree in Russian and French from London University and has one published novel, Brilliant.
Articles by Maureen Barry
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Bohemian Spas
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Maureen Barry
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Czech Republic
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Bohemia
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Karlovy Vary
Bohemia: a name that’s always tantalised and tugged at my imagination: evocative of fairy-tale castles perched on bosky crags, intimate beer houses filled with arguing intellectuals, and pervading it all, a frisson of the louche, an unbridled...
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Blue Mountain Country
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Maureen Barry
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Jamaica
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The Blue Mountains
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Blue Mountain Country
The tropics can play tricks with the senses ... Mandeville country in Middlesex, Jamaica, looks at first sight the quintessence of Englishness - ancient oak, elm and ash stand in stately isolation in upland pastures, and northern cattle munch...
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Bondi Beach
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Maureen Barry
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Australia
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New South Wales
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Sydney
Bondi Beach, Sydney, Christmas Day Rave. Head down to the beach in your minimal cozzie to prance and shout to the hypnotic beat - wear your plastic glass on a thong round your neck and hold it out for a refill of tepid beer or wine squirted from a...
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Dreams on the Grand Divan
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Maureen Barry
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India
It’s sticking your neck out in India, land of palaces sublime, to promote your revamped train tour as the Palace on Wheels. After all, anything on wheels is limited space-wise, and how royal can you feel when your loo is three foot by four?...
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Istanbul - Constantinople
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Maureen Barry
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Turkey
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Marmara
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Istanbul
Istanbul - Constantinople...! Constantinople — Istanbul...! I can remember jumping a skipping rope to this children’s rhyme and wondering about the significance of these two exotic names. Together with words like seraglio, harem and Turkish delight...
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Greek Island Odyssey
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Maureen Barry
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Greece
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Cyclades (south)
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Naxos
The Greeks invented hedonism, so maybe that’s why the quest to find the island of one’s dreams is about as random and elusive as finding the ideal man or woman: each has an individual character, charisma and emotional climate that might appeal to...
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Galicia of the Celts
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Maureen Barry
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Spain
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Mallorca
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Galilea
The melancholy skirl of the bagpipes echoing down a misty glen made my spine tingle with a strong sense of deja-vu. For Celtic Galicia, isolated on the rim of Europe in the far north-western corner of Spain, has more than the climate and an...
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The Road to Pinar del Rio
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Maureen Barry
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Cuba
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Havana Region
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Pinar del Rio
One of the advantages of renting a car in Cuba is the random distribution of the gas stations, if only for the ingenuity it brings out in you. Forget about a general map of the country, our tour company’s official guide to petrol outlets became a...
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Round the Bend in Bora Bora
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Maureen Barry
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French Polynesia
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Society Islands
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Bora Bora
A bike and a budget aren’t the first things that pop into the imagination along with the magic word Bora Bora. Honeymoons, escapism, lotus-eating maybe - but hardly roughing it. Not to be deterred by horror stories of ‘the most expensive...
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South Africa's Lost City
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Maureen Barry
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South Africa
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North West Province
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Sun City
Legend has it, boosted by a healthy dose of media inspiration, that a lost civilisation originating in the North of Africa migrated to Bophuthatswana and there, in a Shangri-la called the Valley of the Sun, they constructed their own spectacular...