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Full of Life

Full of Life
Crocodilians have done rather well for themselves. Alligators, crocs, caiman – for 83.5 million years they’ve been waddling the Earth and lurking in its waters. A great many other species have come and gone in that time, but the crocodilians have endured, their design virtually unchanged over the millennia. The..
Travel
  • 13 Aug
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The World’s End

The World’s End
It is a question that barely needs asking, and one that is met with wild affirmation when it comes: “Ladies and gentlemen, we have received a radio communication saying that there are favourable ice conditions on the eastern side of the Antarctic Peninsula. That means we can try to reach..
Polar Writing
  • 11 Aug
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Virgin White

Virgin White
I first meet Malinga Gunaratne in his capacity as manager of Mirissa Hills, an upmarket hotel on the outskirts of Weligama in the extreme south of Sri Lanka. The place was never meant to be a hotel and Malinga, or Herman as he insists on being called, was never meant..
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  • 11 Aug
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Costa Del Kill

Costa Del Kill
It’s 1991 and I am shivering on the deck of a small fishing boat, bobbing around in the Firth of Clyde. I am knee deep in mackerel, fish so stupid that they are hooked by nothing more than fluorescent tape; fish so weak that even I, an eight-year-old, can pull..
Travel
  • 9 Aug
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Broadly Eking

Broadly Eking
There’s a scene in Austin Powers where the psychedelic spy attempts a quick getaway in a steamroller. “I’m gonna floor it!” He shouts, before setting off at about 5mph, trundling inexorably towards an unfortunate guard trying to block his path. I’m suppressing a smile at the memory of that scene..
Travel
  • 9 Aug
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A Ryokan On Rails

A Ryokan On Rails
Kuniko is nervous. It’s not her smile that betrays her, nor her steady English, but her hand, which trembles as she pours me a coffee in the newly-constructed Kinsei Lounge at Hakata Station. I don’t think I’m responsible for her nervousness and after a year or so of training, you..
Travel
  • 9 Aug
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Reel Rivals

Reel Rivals
Si Si is unwell, but I’ve got little sympathy for her. We’re on board the Catch 22, bouncing across an unusually tumultuous Gulf of Mexico, south of the Florida Keys, and somehow she fell asleep. As I watch her head loll around, I know she’s made a amateurish mistake. I..
Travel
  • 9 Aug
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The Height of Luxury

The Height of Luxury
Purpose-built resort – is there another phrase in travel that so efficiently lowers expectations? Hasty construction, soulless architecture, forgettable food… when I hear “purpose-built resort” I think of the colour beige and down-trodden labourers and a million balconies offering the same views, hanging out the front of the same bland,..
Travel
  • 9 Aug
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Around The World in 80 Minutes

Around The World in 80 Minutes
An Irishman, a Mexican and a Chinaman get on a train. They’re joined by a bickering French couple; a black man with a shock of snow-white hair; a handful of very Caucasian ravers en route to a daytime party; a woman – I’d guess Somali – in a long, flowing..
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  • 9 Aug
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Be Careful What You Piss For

Be Careful What You Piss For

Other
  • 8 Aug
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South Georgia On My Mind

South Georgia On My Mind

Polar Writing
  • 18 Jan
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Salt, Stars and Survival

Salt, Stars and Survival

Travel
  • 21 Dec
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Land of the Faroes

Land of the Faroes

Travel
  • 26 Jun
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The Deep Mani

The Deep Mani

Travel
  • 26 Jun
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Latest Comments

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Jamie Lafferty on 19 Jul
Land of the Faroes

I'd still recommend going. Just don't eat whale when you're there – it's on plenty of menus.

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Jamie Lafferty on 19 Jul
The Teeth of Navarino Island

Hi Trev, nah I doubt it – it's just a bit too remote and the infrastructure isn't there.

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