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Travel prize winner: New York (Trip No 5) Dec 4–8
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How far can a man go with £10,000? This really does make the world an oyster. Saturday, 19 January 2008. New York (Trip No 5) Dec 4–8. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A very big cheque. Where shall I go with it? I am looking cheerful because I have won the £10,000 Dorling Kindersley Travel. I'll pass on tips along the way. It's time for some fun. New York (Trip No 5) Dec 4–8. High Times at the Hotel Bristol. Lunch With Elizabeth David.
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Travel prize winner: March 2008
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How far can a man go with £10,000? This really does make the world an oyster. Monday, 31 March 2008. Northern Greece (Trip No.6). And from enjoying Rembetika music – how do I upload an audio clip? Then off to Thrace to see the Pomaks and the surrounding region, looking for signs of Philip of Macedonia and Alexander the Great. Finally to Ali Pasha's Ioannina, and the Pindos hills, where spring should look fantastic. A full report will follow on my return on May 4. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Travel prize winner: August 2007
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How far can a man go with £10,000? This really does make the world an oyster. Thursday, 30 August 2007. Sunday, 19 August 2007. Things I've thought and talked about since getting back:. 1 How useful the BBC Active. Language course had been (book and 2 CDs). Though I didn't get far with it, it made an excellent, easy start. 2, How lucky we are, with our ease of travel. Many Russians don't seem to grasp tourists' needs because they have never been tourists themselves. We'll kiss, grow old, walk around.
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Travel prize winner: July 2007
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How far can a man go with £10,000? This really does make the world an oyster. Sunday, 29 July 2007. Hotel Bristol, St Petersburg. A SIGN OF THE TIMES IN RUSSIA: THE BOMB EXPLOSION AT THE HOTEL BRISTOL, ST. PETERSBURG". This was a story in the Daily Graphic. Wednesday, 25 July 2007. Moscow and St Petersburg, July 7–14, 2007. Disappointing not to hear any music in this land of towering composers, but in high summer cities are often emptied of their orchestras. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). A very big cheque.
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Travel prize winner: May 2008
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How far can a man go with £10,000? This really does make the world an oyster. Tuesday, 6 May 2008. From Thessaloniki I drove some 1200km, first east to Thrace and Xanthi, where, on Easter Sunday, the muezzins. The only black spot was losing my camera while roaming the hills, hence no pics here (and also discovering on my return home that my annual insurance had expired). But being without a camera was also liberating. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). A very big cheque. Where shall I go with it?
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Travel prize winner: The Ultimate Trip
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How far can a man go with £10,000? This really does make the world an oyster. Tuesday, 6 May 2008. From Thessaloniki I drove some 1200km, first east to Thrace and Xanthi, where, on Easter Sunday, the muezzins. The only black spot was losing my camera while roaming the hills, hence no pics here (and also discovering on my return home that my annual insurance had expired). But being without a camera was also liberating. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A very big cheque. Where shall I go with it?
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Travel prize winner: Post Script from Turkey
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How far can a man go with £10,000? This really does make the world an oyster. Monday, 14 July 2008. Post Script from Turkey. After my return from Greece I did not mean to go away again for a while but I had an unexpected invitation to board a beautiful Turkish gulet, the Randa. Above), and sail along the Lycian coast of Anatolia. At the airport on the way out, I came across a copy of Herodotus's Histories. O, and this is what it was like to sail in the sublime Mediterranean. Click here. A very big cheque.
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A-Z TRavel Snapshots: AACHEN to AVEIRO
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Monday, 16 March 2009. When I saw the road sign – Achen/Aix-La-Chapelle – I immediately wanted to pull off the motorway and go in search of Charlemagne’s city. But it was dark, it was late, and I was on my way somewhere else. For so long it was a forbidden place, just a purple stripe, like dawn on the horizon, seen on the ferry from Italy to Greece. Ismail Kadare is one of my favourite writers: a paragraph about a boy smoking his first cigar in Chronicle in Stone. Here, for the first time, I learned you ...
