Category: Travel Writing
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Extract from “Slow Travels in Unsung Spain”
Slow Travels in Unsung Spain eBook and Paperback Contents 1 To Zaragoza – a local train not actually on strike – The Distress Jazz Club – a public scolding – “Ah, Cricket!” – “Hoy, Mañana” – top mantas and ‘poor quality’ sperm – the river Ebro – “here there are no tourists” – but George Orwell was…
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Steinbeck, Scuppers and trains
[This article was first published in Catalonia Today magazine, February 2016.] As a child, the great American author John Steinbeck was inspired by a scene with a bird in it: a stork. He cherished a toy ‘Easter looking-egg’ which he loved to peer into through a tiny hole, seeing “a lovely little farm,…
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The Zanzibar Zone
[First published in Japan’s Kansai Scene magazine, unknown month, 2000.] A small island off the coast of Tanzania in central-eastern Africa, Zanzibar has a colourful history as a stop-off along the slave and spice trades of past centuries. Kansai Scene writer Brett Hetherington attempts to see how modern day realities have met the past. Arriving…
Brett Hetherington 