‘For Lust Of Knowing What Should Not Be Known, We Take The Golden Road To Samarkand’- James Elroy Flecker. The Silk Road city of Samarkand has long lured travellers and conquerors in search of wealth and the exotic in Central Asia. In 1913 British poet...
Bukhara, the beautiful Silk Road City with a dark history. Bukhara is majestic. It’s beautiful. Sand stone buildings, tall minarets and vast mosques greet the traveller who arrives in what is one of Uzbekistan’s, and Central Asia’s finest...
The Old Man of Sheki was staring at me with a mad look in his eyes. He beckoned me over with a frantic gesture as he sat crossed legged on a ragged sheep skin on the floor. The greying, dishevelled Azerbaijani man had a crazy glint in eyes, and something...
It had taken weeks to reach the old city of Khiva. I’d crossed the Caspian Sea, travelled through the endless desert of Kazakhstan and then down into the boundless waste of Uzbekistan’s remote and arid Karakalpakstan province, past the rusting...
The North Korean DMZ: The World’s Most Volatile Divide It was the morning after the night before. I woke up in my hotel room in Pyongyang. What the hell happened? Mr Han- my North Korean tour guide- had beaten me at Ping Pong, and then he’d destroyed my...
Travel Tramp’s 2017 Travel Update! It’s a New Year! A little late I know, what with it being well into 2017 and that already, but I’m back to tell you what’s been happening and what’s planned with the Travel Tramp Blog! And I guess if you...
Along the Borders chronicles my multi-year journey along Britain's borders, boundaries and frontiers. Published by Penguin Random House, and available now!
