This dog was dressed to the nines and ready to go shopping at the weekend market to end all markets, the Chatuchak Market in Bangkok, Thailand. Its owner was an equally interesting character — a local “ladyboy” wearing high heels, a mini skirt and white face makeup. — Heather Knight Heather Knight is a Portland, …
Towering basalt cliffs, striated and turfed, punished by the wroth sea and roaring hysterics of the wind, stand in monolithic acceptance of the rain pounding from the anvil sky. Beneath the glacial waters of the Little Minch and through the Sea of the Hebrides, the causeway of the giants extends southwest to County Antrim. Birds …
With everything shiny and new around here, I thought it a good time to invite you over. Bring something to share. Seriously. Show up in my in-box, with a good story, there’s nothing else to it.
As I unpack and repack in preparation for Book Passage, a travel writing conference in California, I’m delighted to have a guest post from Eva Holland on why such events are worth the money and the bother. In 2007, I bet it all on Book Passage. I was an aspiring travel writer fresh off a …
My friend Ciaran put himself through all kinds of crappy travel so he could hang out with me in central Austria for about 36 hours. He sent me this email about the train portion of his return trip and I liked it so much I asked him if I could share it with you. He …
Mike Sowden writes an excellent blog called Fevered Mutterings. He flew down from York, England to visit the temporarily relocated world headquarters of Nerd’s Eye View in Aigen, Austria. While he was here, we visited the baroque Benedictine library at Admont, wandered the aggressively picturesque streets of Hallstatt, vanquished several servings of epic cake (with …