Travel
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Chicken Telly
My laptop’s on. I’ve chucked another log on the stove. Outside on the windowsill two chickens dibble amongst their feathers, pause, press against the window, extend their necks and stare in, pecking at spots of dirt on the glass. Tap. tap, tap, tap… My inbox proffers a couple of press trip invitations. Both are vaguely…
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Planes, trains and automobiles…
Perhaps in the hope that it’d be buried beneath the kind of trite tosh that surfaces when most folks are taking a break, BA recently announced a revised sequential boarding procedure. Nothing new in that, save that this process is allegedly based on what you pay rather than where you sit. I said then that…
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Travel Journalism WTF?
Having cleared my desk before Christmas – all commissioned pieces filed – I find myself inhabiting the un-festive season of oh-bloody-hell-now-what? A few loose ideas dangle in the uncertain future but that’s about it. Although I know I’m doing it, writing instead of writing and pitching inevitably leads to this abyss. Like Wile E Coyote,…
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Return to Tunisia… again
Last month I flew to Tunis and spent a week exploring Roman, pre-Roman and pre-historic sites across Tunisia. I’ve been ‘back to Tunisia’ before, after the Jasmine Revolution, the first and most effective popular revolt of the Arab Spring. This time it was the murder in 2015 of 30 British tourists and eight others on…
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Sinai – Dahab’s other story…
I’ve separated this post from the last one. The story is the kind thing that doesn’t make it into travel copy – ‘Social commentary, we don’t have the word count…etc…’ As I described, for visitors Dahab is a funky beach stay – excellent dives sites (the Blue Hole and others) and, even for those packing…
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Sinai – the other Egypt
I’m just back from another Sinai trip. A few days in Cairo then 10 1/2-hours by bus to Dahab. In Cairo I stayed at the same $10 Downtown hotel I’ve briefly called home on numerous occasions since my first visit to the city in the late 1980s. I’ve seen the place buzzing, filled by young Israelis…
The Irresponsible Traveller 