From Slough to North Korea via Tripoli, Tehran, the Maldives and Hull
‘People don’t take trips – trips take people’ – John Steinbeck
Books
Slow Trains to Istanbul …And Back: A 4,570-Mile Adventure on 55 Rides…plus Lost in the Lakes: Notes from a 379-mile hike around the Lake District, and others.
Book Reviews
Reviews of travel books written from time to time, including a piece on travel writing about the UK and Charles Dickens’ surprisingly wide-ranging adventures.
Articles
A selection of stories covering ‘tooth tourism’ in Poland, tornado chasing in the States, the best curry in Bradford and many other serious matters.
Gallery
A selection of pictures from trips, starting with shots taken during the research for Ticket to Ride: Around the World on 49 Unusual Train Journeys; plus a Maldives gallery.
‘I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move’
– Robert Louis Stevenson
‘There are a lot of mysterious things about boats, such as why would anyone get on one voluntarily’
– PJ O’Rourke