Inspiring Travel Writing from Maxine Jones: Page 3 of 4
Articles by Maxine Jones: Page 3 of 4
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Going North: The Other Ireland
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Maxine Jones
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United Kingdom
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Northern Ireland
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Castlewellan Forest Park
An e-mail I sent one evening to a forest park manager in the Mourne mountains was replied to at 8.30am the following day. He directed me to the person who would best be able to help. On the dot of nine, I received a phone call from a Northern Irish...
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Lanzarote
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Maxine Jones
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Spain
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Canary Islands
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Lanzarote
The year-round warmth of Lanzarote - always about 22 degrees - coupled with cheap fares - £269 for a week's self catering in early December - overcame my prejudice about a place I imagined to be as tourist-blighted as Torremolinos. As Santas set...
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Lyon
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Maxine Jones
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France
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Beaujolais
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Lyon
Lyon is France’s biggest city after Paris, but you would never think so. The city centre, crossed by the rivers Saone and Rhone, is backed by two hills complete with Roman ruins - this was, after all, once Lugdunum, the capital of Gaul. Its streets...
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Rain, roof-racks and pirates: a family holiday in France
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Maxine Jones
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France
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Brittany Region
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Roscoff
Half the value of a family holiday is the expectation that mounts in the months leading up to it. When the car was fitted with a roof-box, clinging crustacean-like to the luggage-rack, departure day was imminent. I had no trouble spotting the car in...
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One Day in Istanbul
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Maxine Jones
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Turkey
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Marmara
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Istanbul
One day in Istanbul - an alluring, tantalising, frustrating prospect. From the 11th floor of the swish Polat Renaissance Hotel I looked across the Sea of Marmara. Ships glided up to the Bosphorus which cuts through the city dividing east from west,...
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Fashionable Lisbon
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Maxine Jones
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Portugal
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Lisbon Region
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Lisbon
Lisbon was a mystery city to me. I had no idea what to expect. Portugal I only vaguely differentiated from Spain, recalling that (pre-Celtic Tiger) it always came below Ireland in the poverty stakes. I had heard rumblings about Lisbon becoming...
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New York
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Maxine Jones
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United States
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New York State
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New York
It was 9.30am mid-February and my three sons and I were practically alone at the Top of the Rock, the observation deck at the Rockefeller Centre, 850 feet above sea level. Below, under a perfect blue sky and glittering with the snow that had closed...
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Gran Canaria
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Maxine Jones
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Spain
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Canary Islands
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Maspalomas
What I didn’t expect when I booked four days in Spain’s biggest holiday resort was to have 250 hectares of rolling, deserted sand dunes on my doorstep. The dunes of Maspalomas in Gran Canaria stretch for six kilometres, linking Playa del Ingles with...
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Lagos and (Praia da) Luz
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Maxine Jones
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Portugal
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Algarve Region
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Tavira
‘Don’t be ashamed of your prosperity,’ said compere Derek Davis addressing the Irish in the audience at the Estrela da Luz resort in the western Algarve. ‘Think back to when we raised our children for export;’ some of the English laughed, not...
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Summer in the Tirol
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Maxine Jones
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Austria
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Tyrol Region
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Westendorf
There’s a feel-good factor about being in an Alpine meadow in summertime that is hard to beat – bobbing wild flowers, circle of craggy peaks, occasional glisten of snow and the haphazard church-bell chime of cow bells. I could almost do a Julie...
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