Category: Travel Writing
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An Unlikely Love Affair
Published in MMM magazine 2019 We called her Cecilia, for no better reason than that her number plate began with the letters CEC. She was a supremely graceless white plastic box, perched on top of four preposterously small and narrow wheels, and welded to a van cab. There was a double bed over the cab…
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Eid in Siwa
Winner of The Daily Telegraph ‘Just Back’ travel Writing competition, 2011 No-one mentioned the donkey, or the nearby mosque, when we booked our rooms for the Eid weekend. The Imam, his voice amplified by a loudspeaker attached to the wall beneath our window, and his four-legged chorister tethered in a stable across the narrow alley,…
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