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The 50 Most Inspiring Travel Quotes Of All Time

Brave New Traveler has a list of 50 of the most inspiring travel quotations of all time. The list includes quotations from writers, poets, philosophers and others; quotations [...]

Review: The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein

Subtitled The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Naomi Klein’s latest assault on free market economics and its ills, begins by stating its objective as one which seeks to [...]

How To Plan Your Trans-Siberian Railway Trip

Planning a trip on the trans-Siberian Railway is not difficult in itself. There are, however, certain aspects of the journey that one must weigh up before heading to Moscow [...]

Review: Behind the Wall by Colin Thubron

Since the publishing of his first travel book, Mirror to Damascus, in 1967, Colin Thubron has travelled and written extensively about Eurasia and its great expanse [...]

Twelve in a bus to Snowdonia

Tommy eats razorblades or so people say. Tommy also drinks meths - diluted with White Lightning, naturally, in order to make its drinking marginally more palatable but no less likely to reduce your [...]

Why Travel?

The answer to our titular question may seem self-evident. It is certainly a question that has been posed many times before, and as such, its asking may seem largely redundant. Why travel? Why not [...]

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Schmap Prague Sixth Edition: Photo Inclusion

Further to my previous post regarding my making the photo short list for the sixth edition of the Schmap Prague Guide, my little photo has only gone and bloody [...]

The 50 Most Inspiring Travel Quotes Of All Time

Brave New Traveler has a list of 50 of the most inspiring travel quotations of all time. The list includes quotations from writers, poets, philosophers and others; quotations [...]

Winners of 2009 Sony World Photography Awards announced

Fighting off stiff competition from a worldwide shortlist of 186 photographers, the winners of the 2009 Sony World Photography Awards were revealed today. Each of the photographers on the list, along with the [...]

Tiananmen: The Legacy

Twenty years ago tanks rolled into Beijing’s Tiananmen Square to crush the biggest pro-democracy movement in history. Hundreds were killed [...]

Review: The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein

Subtitled The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Naomi Klein’s latest assault on free market economics and its ills, begins by stating its objective as one which seeks to [...]

Waiting for Godot’s history of double acts

When the Royal Court was casting David Storey’s play Home in 1970, it secured Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud despite the fact that neither actor had any idea [...]

This much I know: Mark E Smith

If I could change one law I would reverse the smoking ban immediately. I was in a pub last Saturday night, just having a quiet pint, and this fella gets his baby out [...]