Inspiring Travel Writing from Vitali Vitaliev: Page 5 of 7
Articles by Vitali Vitaliev: Page 5 of 7
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Scottish Borders
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Vitali Vitaliev
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United Kingdom
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Northumbria
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Berwick-upon-Tweed
“There was no such thing as a ‘Union of the Crowns’. The king of Scots merely inherited an additional office that paid better than his old one. The two kingdoms were in no sense united, and Scotland was left in the hands of managers while her king...
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The Shetlands
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Vitali Vitaliev
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United Kingdom
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Southern Scotland
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Lerwick
The painfully familiar Cyrillic letters were crabbed and uneven – as if battered by gales. A Russian sign was the last thing I had expected to see in Lerwick – the wind-swept “capital” of the Shetland Islands. Yet there it was: “DOM NADEZHDI”, and...
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Leaf-Peeping in New Hampshire
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Vitali Vitaliev
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United States
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New Hampshire
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Concord
I once found myself in New England during the so-called Fall Foliage season, normally occurring between mid-September and mid-October. On a bus from Boston airport to Concord, New Hampshire, I was glued to the window. Mouth agape, I was trying to...
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Not a Pretty Face
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Vitali Vitaliev
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Ireland
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East Coast Ireland
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Dublin
The old chimney, with me inside, was trembling, as if swinging ever so slightly to the accompaniment of the wind’s hooligan whistles. With some exalted American tourists, I stood on what our guide called “the best viewing platform in Dublin” – at...
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Newry: Don't Mention the War
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Vitali Vitaliev
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United Kingdom
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Northern Ireland
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Newry
As I was preparing for my first foray to Northern Ireland, the advice of my omniscient Dublin friends was categorical: “Don’t poke your nose into politics, and you’ll be OK!” Well, to be honest, my poor nose was not in a condition to be poked...
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London
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Vitali Vitaliev
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United Kingdom
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Greater London
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London
A 19th century Russian literary critic once remarked that to write a good book about Russia, one had to leave it first. I think this can be applied not just to Russia, but to any place one had felt attached to before having to leave it. I have left...
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Venice
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Vitali Vitaliev
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Italy
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Veneto Region
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Venice
“When I went to Venice – my dream became my address,” Marcel Proust wrote famously in one of his letters. To write about Venice is banal. But it is even more banal not to write about it. After my many visits to this amazing city, I came to regard...
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Prague
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Vitali Vitaliev
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Czech Republic
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Prague Region
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Prague
A rather reluctant beer drinker (I always preferred wine), I made sure I memorised one useful Czech expression before flying to Prague: “Uz nepiju” (“I don’t drink any more”). It was the best I could do, for visiting Prague without getting the feel...
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Santa Fe
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Vitali Vitaliev
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United States
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New Mexico
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Santa Fe
And, although the ancient couple seated behind me on my way to Santa Fe, New Mexico, was not very garrulous (after 50 odd years of marriage, they must have exhausted all subjects for conversation), they stubbornly took turns reading aloud every...
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Football on the Faroe Islands
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Vitali Vitaliev
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Denmark
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other areas of Denmark
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Faroe Islands
For me, the World Cup largely lost its attraction the moment I found out that the world's most admirable football squad did not make it into the finals and was not going to be represented in South Africa. I am speaking about the national team of the...
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