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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 [...]

How to bag the cheapest accommodation in Hong Kong

If you’re looking for accommodation and you’re looking for cheap, there’s only one place in Hong Kong that you’re likely to start. [...]

The complete Jane Bown: a lifetime in photographs

Following on from the mini gallery in the Observer last Sunday, the Guardian now has online a complete interactive guide of Jane Bown’s work, including biography [...]

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 [...]

This was supposed to be the future

The fruits of a brief session of private perusal earlier this afternoon, does this not sum up everything about the paradoxical nature of human endeavour and the desperate [...]

Even More Graffiti Humour

Is this latest dose of graffiti humour possibly the best yet?

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How to bag the cheapest accommodation in Hong Kong

October 25, 2009 • No Comments

If you’re looking for accommodation and you’re looking for cheap, there’s only one place in Hong Kong that you’re likely to start. [...]

The complete Jane Bown: a lifetime in photographs

October 23, 2009 • No Comments

Following on from the mini gallery in the Observer last Sunday, the Guardian now has online a complete interactive guide of Jane Bown’s work, including biography [...]

National Geographic Image Collection

October 22, 2009 • No Comments

A new book collects the work of National Geographic photographers from the earliest photographs collected in the late 19th century to the cutting edge work of today. [...]

How to Shoot Killer Travel Photographs

October 21, 2009 • No Comments

Confession time: I have taken some bad travel photographs. Imagine the transgressions of pulling wonderful people into my post-adventure show-and-tell, with such comments as [...]

Landscape Photographer of the Year 2009

October 20, 2009 • No Comments

Thousands of people aimed their cameras at our varied and beautiful countryside in the third annual Take a View Landscape Photographer of the Year competition. [...]

Jane Bown’s Portraits

October 18, 2009 • No Comments

Since her first, brilliant portrait of Bertrand Russell appeared in the Observer 60 years ago, Jane Bown has photographed some of the world’s most famous faces. [...]

Two nights in Chungking Mansions

October 17, 2009 • No Comments

I’m trying to work out whether something hasn’t had to have gone fundamentally wrong in a person’s life if they have just finished having a shower at three o’clock in the morning [...]

North Point Ferry Pier, Hong Kong

October 13, 2009 • No Comments

After slinking away from that incongruous little scene I’d stumbled upon after being shooed off the bus at North Point Ferry Pier the other day, I had a wander round [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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If you’re looking for accommodation and you’re looking for cheap, there’s only one place in Hong Kong that you’re likely to start. [...]

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Following on from the mini gallery in the Observer last Sunday, the Guardian now has online a complete interactive guide of Jane Bown’s work, including biography [...]

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

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A new book collects the work of National Geographic photographers from the earliest photographs collected in the late 19th century to the cutting edge work of today. [...]

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Confession time: I have taken some bad travel photographs. Imagine the transgressions of pulling wonderful people into my post-adventure show-and-tell, with such comments as [...]

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Thousands of people aimed their cameras at our varied and beautiful countryside in the third annual Take a View Landscape Photographer of the Year competition. [...]

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The 50 Most Inspiring Travel Quotes Of All Time

Review: The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein

How To Plan Your Trans-Siberian Railway Trip

Review: Behind the Wall by Colin Thubron

Twelve in a bus to Snowdonia

Why Travel?

Schmap Prague Sixth Edition: Photo Inclusion

Other posts in News

How to bag the cheapest accommodation in Hong Kong

Other posts in Travel

The complete Jane Bown: a lifetime in photographs

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Tiananmen: The Legacy

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Review: The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein

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This was supposed to be the future

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Even More Graffiti Humour

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How to bag the cheapest accommodation in Hong Kong

The complete Jane Bown: a lifetime in photographs

National Geographic Image Collection

How to Shoot Killer Travel Photographs

Landscape Photographer of the Year 2009

Jane Bown’s Portraits

Two nights in Chungking Mansions

North Point Ferry Pier, Hong Kong

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