Southampton Spring Lovely springtime photos from Shirrell Heath in Southampton. Contains many daffodils!

First new post on the site in 6 years. Light read. Hope you like the photos!

#travel #uk #visitBritain #england #southampton #spring #springtime #flowers #daffodils #birdsong #travelBlog #travelWriting

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Travel Writing Reading Recommendations! 🧳 If you’re in need of some compelling storytelling this weekend, we have you covered!These new in this year paperbacks and hardbacks are flying off our staff picks shelves 📚

Which one will you pick?

#travel #travelwriting #readingrecommendations

God in the Museum On fountains, water, and the divine in ordinary things.

At a museum in Sukhothai today, something small turned into something spiritual.

I wrote about craft, impermanence, and what remains after the maker is gone:

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#Writing #Art #Impermanence #travelwriting #spirituality

A photograph of god. This is a Theyyam dancer from the Kannur region of northern Kerala. The dancers are from "low castes" but after days of meditation, a god enters each one and they become god while the Theyyam festival lasts. #indiatravel #india #kerala #theyyam #travelphotography #travelwriting

Almost on the Road Again Seeing Family

My first written stack is getting ready to go. I got some unexpected surprises in London and Windsor before I headed to Cancun, and here's me writing about them. open.substack.com/pub/joshuapa... #amwriting #travelwriting #familystuff

In northern waters Atlantic crossing: A voyage to the St Lawrence 50 years ago

Grey seas, icebergs, wrecks and whales.
A voyage to the St Lawrence over 50 years ago.
#TravelWriting #Ships #History

Plaza Premium First KLIA Review Ahead of our Oman Air flight home, we tried Plaza premium First KLIA. Definitely quieter and more premium – here’s the full lowdown…

Lounge Review: Plaza Premium First at KLIA: easy to find a seat, great airfield views, engaging staff and decent food. A clear step-up from the standard lounge next door — though pricier for walk-ins. Full review: windowseatpreferred.com/2026/03/plaz...
#KLIA #AirportLounge #TravelWriting

In 1992, New Island launched its publishing journey with Sea Legs: Hitch-Hiking the Coast of Ireland Alone by Rosita Boland — our very first book!

#travelwriting #irishwriters

10 Stunning Small Towns In New York From Hudson River villages to Adirondack lake towns, these 10 New York getaways pair walkable streets, scenery, and weekend appeal.

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Please check out my other latest @world-atlas.bsky.social article on some of the most stunning small towns in New York
#WorldAtlas #NewYork #ContentWriting #TravelWriting

8 Best Downtowns In Ireland With castles in the background and an Irish pub on every corner, these downtowns offer a vivid sense of place rooted in culture, craft, and tradition.

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Please give my latest article about Ireland for @world-atlas.bsky.social a read 🇮🇪
#WorldAtlas #Ireland #ContentWriting #TravelWriting

A cinematic illustration of Porto at sunset, showing the Douro River, Rabelo boats, and the Dom Luís I Bridge glowing in warm golden light.

Why every traveler should visit Porto at least once
Porto is a city built on stories whispered through the narrow alleys of Ribeira and others sung through the melancholic notes
#Porto #PortugalTravel #DouroRiver #VisitPortugal #TravelWriting #EuropeanCities

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Caroline Mills on 'Solastalgia' and Making Slow Travel Work as a Professional Travel Writer - Intrepid Times The Travel Writing Podcast Caroline Mills on 'Solastalgia' and Making Slow Travel Work as a Professional Travel Writer - Intrepid Times

Thrilled to have had the opportunity to chat to the Travel Writing Podcast at Intrepid Times about #slowtravel, 'solastalgia' and how that relates to my latest book, 'This Is Not My Land: 30 Years on a Small Cotswolds Farm'. You can listen here: intrepidtimes.com/2026/03/caro... #travelwriting

Why a Car is the Best Choice for a Cross-Country Trip Choosing a car for a cross-country trip offers freedom and adventure, allowing detours and stories that flights and trains can't provide.

Cross-country? I’d still take the car. Not because it’s romantic, but because it allows interruption. And interruption is where most worthwhile things begin. streetsoul.me/2026/03/17/r...
#StreetSoul #TravelWriting

Chimgan mountains Uzbekistan landscape

Being overseas long enough frees you. You stop trying to fit cultural expectations and start playing with them instead.

#TravelWriting

Just keeping an "eye" to the sky...

#Vegas #Sphere #travelwriting #travel #travelphotography

A Scottish Gael in the Romanian Vineyard : NEC NEC Institute for Advanced Study

Research paper next Thursday:
James Christian Brown (Univ. Bucharest) "A Scottish Gael in the Romanian Vineyard"
New Europe College, Thu 19 March, 15.00-17.00 (Bucharest time)
#travelwriting #gaelic #romania
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Somewhere in #Vegas

#travelphotography #travelwriting #travel

I’m in the middle of reading Diana Marcum’s book The Tenth Island - a semi-journalistic account of the Azores and the Azorean diaspora — and really sad to learn that she died a few years ago. What an interesting writer and what a sad loss. #azores #travelwriting #booksky

A spring treat in the Algarve. Join us for a travel writing retreat 18-21 May. Scan QR code for more information and to register.
#Algarve #Portugal #Writingretreat #travelwriting

Get lost with Edward Dodwell on Mount Lykaion in 1806, looking out for bandits and worse along the way...
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#MountainCulture #TravelWriting

Sometimes the road rewrites the plan.

We couldn’t take I-90 from Pasco to Poulsbo due to snow in the mountains, so we had to find another way.

Not the route we expected—but definitely a stop worth making.

That’s the spirit of taking the long way.

#TheLongWayMac #TravelWriting #ColumbiaRiverGorge

One for the #TravelWriting scholars. Samia Ounoughi and I seem to have been working on this book forever, but it's out at last! It features a great range of contributions. If you have access to an academic library and an interest in travel writing scholarship, please request a copy!

8 Most Breathtaking Towns In the UK The United Kingdom is full of breathtaking, fairy-tale-like communities across England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.

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Please check out my latest article for @world-atlas.bsky.social on the most breathtaking towns in the United Kingdom
#WorldAtlas #UnitedKingdom #ContentWriting #TravelWriting

The USSR Is Gone, the Story Isn’t: Joe Luc Barnes On the Road Across the Former Soviet Union - The Times Of Central Asia On a foggy but mild London evening, The Times of Central Asia joined journalist and contributor Joe Luc Barnes to celebrate the launch of his new book,

Latest from our Ola's Kool Kitchen Georgian wine Armenian brandy and the ghosts of empire Joe Luc Barnes travels the former USSR to tell the human story of life after Soviet rule https://ow.ly/pvhc50YqbSI #CentralAsia #USSR #TravelWriting #History #PostSoviet #TravelStories

The USSR Is Gone, the Story Isn’t: Joe Luc Barnes On the Road Across the Former Soviet Union - The Times Of Central Asia On a foggy but mild London evening, The Times of Central Asia joined journalist and contributor Joe Luc Barnes to celebrate the launch of his new book,  A

My latest for @timesca.com vodka, gulags, and Silk Road cities @joelucbarnes.bsky.social travels the former Soviet world to ask what happened after empire timesca.com/the-ussr-is-... #CentralAsia #USSR #PostSoviet #TravelWriting #Geopolitics #NewBook

📢 New out!

Nile Green shows how Meiji-era modern hotels served as mechanisms for an informal and amateur mode of learning about Japanese culture.

#tourism #inter-Asia #trans-imperial #travelwriting #arthistory #Japonisme #Shinto #Buddhism #Urdu #Persian

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Very excited to discover two of my features about #camping in UK destinations - #Shropshire and the Borders Historic Route in #Scotland - have been shortlisted for positive impact storytelling in the Inspire Global Media Awards 2026. #travelwriting #writingawards

This flip board was great, kept track of every piece of Strudel sold. We kept trying to take a short video of how the board worked, but we were not fast enough.

Delicious coffee at the Strudel House in Budapest!

Fantastic apple strudel and hot coffee at the Strudel House, where I actually learned how to stretch strudel with the chef! So much fun.

The most served strudel, their popular apple strudel. Was amazing!

Just joined. This is my 1st post - I hope it's okay. Went to the Strudel House in Budapest - it was a lovely visit! Family-owned, and they had both sweet and savory ones to try. My favorite was the sour cherry. #travel #visitbudapest #strudel #strudelstretching #hungary #travelwriting

TRAVEL FOOD & WINE MAGAZINE - Feb 2026 Experience the world through the eyes of the experts. This interactive digital podcast magazine, a collaboration between Big Blend Radio and the International Food Wine & Travel Writers Association (I...

Check out the new issue of our "Travel, Food & Wine" Digital Podcast Magazine with IFWTWA covering travel writing, the spirit of Louisiana’s River Parishes with Kat Anderson, and more: online.fliphtml5.com/yhwzg/ekxy/#...
#Travelwriting #Louisiana #BigBlendRadio #IFWTWA

TRAVEL FOOD & WINE MAGAZINE - Feb 2026 Experience the world through the eyes of the experts. This interactive digital podcast magazine, a collaboration between Big Blend Radio and the International Food Wine & Travel Writers Association (I...

Check out the new issue of our "Travel, Food & Wine" Digital Podcast Magazine with IFWTWA covering travel writing, the spirit of Louisiana’s River Parishes with Kat Anderson, and more: online.fliphtml5.com/yhwzg/ekxy/#...
#Travelwriting #Louisiana #BigBlendRadio #IFWTWA