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Catfish, no Mandala 15 Jan 2013 | 09:01 pm
Short-changed, shoo-ed out of shops and extorted by taxi drivers: Vietnam can be hard to like, but why should that matter? Catfish, no Mandala is an Overland travel stories » Old World Wandering orig...
In Ulan Bator, with just five days to go 5 Oct 2012 | 02:53 pm
Sanbanor! We’re finding our feet in Ulan Bator, where we arrived on the Trans-Mongolian two days ago. It’s a surprising city, where dirt roads, ger slums and decrepit, Soviet-era apartment complexes a...
Where to for travel writing 1 Oct 2012 | 11:51 pm
The three interviews connected to our Kickstarter project started with Graham Boynton, a magazine and newspaper editor. My second subject was Rolf Potts, whose career has spanned both print and the up...
Where to for travel writing? 24 Sep 2012 | 08:45 pm
As part of Old World Wandering’s Kickstarter project, I’m interviewing three people about travel, writing and how they intersect in the topsy-turvy present. Last week I spoke to Graham Boynton who was...
Where to for travel writing? 17 Sep 2012 | 10:07 pm
Editor at Conde Nast Traveler and Group Travel Editor at the Daily Telegraph, Graham Boynton says "the greatest crisis facing travel writing [is] the dumbing down of the genre." Where to for travel w...
Part II: The Mzo Trail 10 Sep 2012 | 12:35 pm
Tsepak had been a refugee in India. He learnt to speak English where Claire and I first taught it: in McLeod Ganj, the seat of Tibet’s Government in Exile. Refugee was the word used to describe the me...
Reinventing the travelogue 4 Sep 2012 | 10:40 am
Yesterday morning, Claire and I stepped groggily off a bus after 25 hours of travelling feet first through Laos and China. The bus had flame-licked Chinese characters down its sides; inside, there wer...
Along the Map’s Torn Edge 29 Aug 2012 | 11:14 am
Part I: Song of Shambala Dusk gently settled over Shangri-La. A mist rose off the grassland at the town’s edges, shot through by the day’s last beams of sunlight, while in its handful of squares, musi...
Ancient Angkor: Stories in the Stone 12 Aug 2012 | 12:52 pm
The history of the Khmer Empire is written in the ruins at Angkor, from ancient Roluos to Hindu Angkor Wat & the Buddhist Bayon Ancient Angkor: Stories in the Stone is an Overland travel stories » Ol...
Atrocity Tourism in Phnom Penh 9 Jul 2012 | 08:09 pm
It is a tree like many others. Neither old nor distinctively tall, it has rough, brittle bark and a pile of bricks at its base. Sticks of incense left unlit between the bricks might mark the tree out ...
