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Your Orient Express Reading List: From Lonely Planet

Downhill on the Orient Express  Graham Greene likened the arrival of the Orient Express into a city station to the closing moments of an overture, when ‘all the rural and urban the...

Dispatches From the Departures Gate: No Passport, No Cry

A misplaced passport turns airports into existential obstacle courses where charm, luck and bureaucracy uneasily coexist.

‘Taiwan Travelogue’ shortlisted for final of Booker Prize

What Happened in Vegas

An impulsive trip to America’s “idiot Disneyland” thrust John Gregory Dunne among characters who, like him, sought distraction from their private miseries.

Quebec Novelist Shines a Harsh Spotlight on Migration, and on Trump’s America

Thélyson Orélien, a Haitian-born, previously unknown writer, submitted an unsolicited manuscript. Its rights were sold in 23 countries before publication.

7 Amtrak Trains That Make the Slow Way Worth It

The Acela gets the headlines, but these seven slow trains get the country.

Paul Charles: The Irish impresario on his new novel, and the chances of Tom Waits touring again  

Paul Charles' new novel takes its title from a song by his old comrade Van Morrison

Richard Hogan: A seven-hour road trip where I saw the two sides of Ireland

An unplanned diversion through the back roads of his home country provided an insight into rundown rural Ireland — but for Richard Hogan, the final destination was paradise

Steves: The Zen of travel journaling

When I travel, I make it a habit to collect only one thing: memories. The most treasured keepsake of any trip I take is the journal I bring home, filled with descriptions and obser...

The long way home: Navigating broken shrouds and fickle trades on the road to Polynesia

Sailing from Chile to Polynesia’s legendary shores was an adventure across the less travelled routes of the Pacific for Lauric ThiaultThe Río Valdivia was glassy when we slipped ou...

For travellers who’ve seen it all, this is what comes next

At a certain point, travel stops being about checking places off a list. You’ve done the five-star resorts. The Euro summers. The perfectly curated itineraries. You’ve seen the lan...

Uncovering Deeper Meaning across Our World’s Far-flung Places

— While I was raised in the UK, my life has been one of extensive travel and exposure to far-flung places. In my first few decades, I travelled around my home country and to Europe...

The Gentlemen’s Trip

THOMPSON EMATE: Alone

This time, I was travelling alone. Would see, know and relish alone. We had anticipated another sunny moment. I noticed her glow and blossoming after our last vacation, but then sh...

AMERICAN RAMBLER

Fitzgerald, a devotee of tattoos and booze, might have been tempted to go gonzo in this rollicking travelogue, but he plays it reasonably straight. The author of Dirtbag, Massachus...

A South African literary tour

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From the Amazon to the Serengeti: 8 Travel Companies Empowering Local Communities

These travel companies support the surrounding communities and preserve local culture and heritage, from the jungles of Nepal to the islands of French Polynesia.

From Sea to Shining Sea: 5 Journeys for America’s 250th

After visiting all 50 states, a travel writer considers the top places to experience America the Beautiful, from the evergreen isles of New England to the rugged cliffs and Redwood...

Americas Experience A Remarkable Regional Tourism Boom

The Americas are currently witnessing a vibrant and inspiring transformation in the way people explore the world. Nations such as Jamaica, Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina are at the...

The busiest place you've never seen

Photographer Julia Gunther and writer-filmmaker Nick Schönfeld chronicle the rhythms of daily life on Tristan da Cunha, the world's most remote inhabited island.

Europe’s Night Trains Are Picking Up Steam

New rolling stock, new routes and a carbon footprint that makes flying look reckless. These are the sleeper services worth planning a trip around.

Across Morocco’s Atlas Mountains, a Hotel That Changed My Sense of Luxury

The trip began with a windstorm crossing of the Atlas, and ended with a very different sense of luxury.

The Collapse of America’s Moral Passport

For decades, Americans traveling abroad benefited from a distinction that citizens of many powerful nations rarely receive: the assumption…Continue reading on Medium »