Inspiring Travel Writing from Peter Carty
Peter Carty was travel editor of London's Time Out magazine and contributes to The Guardian. His travel experiences include: challenging a New York mugger to a game of Russian roulette, teaching quadratic equations to African township children, ingesting an hallucinogenic jungle vine with a Brazilian religious cult and getting drunk in a castle near Vienna with an Austrian artist who stages mass orgies and paints in blood.
Peter runs regular travel writing workshops in central London (for more details see www.travelwritingworkshop.co.uk).
Peter runs regular travel writing workshops in central London (for more details see www.travelwritingworkshop.co.uk).
Articles by Peter Carty
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Holiday from Hell: Mid West USA
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Peter Carty
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United States
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Illinois
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Chicago
I shall refer to our guide on the tour to learn about the Native Americans of the mid-west plains as 'Arthur'. Despite having been born and raised in Leeds he appeared to possess yearnings to become Native American, similar to the Afro-Caribbean...
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Himalayan Trek
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Peter Carty
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Nepal
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Kathmandu Region
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Kathmandu
The Himalayan trek was the culmination of our two months in India and Nepal. Sitting in Kathmandu we reasoned that because we had maps we could dispense with a guide. We set off on the Annapurna trail with hired sleeping bags and, for emergencies,...
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Copenhagen
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Peter Carty
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Denmark
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Zealand
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Copenhagen
Copenhagen is Europe's best weekend break. “Hang on,” you're thinking, “what about Paris, Barcelona, Dublin or Amsterdam?” Think again. Copenhagen's advantages extend a long way beyond the Little Mermaid. To start, it has a large anarchist community...