Escape from Alcatraz (Sunday Times)
A mile and a half across the bay, lies the prize of San Francisco – a thicket of skyscrapers shimmering in the early morning haze.
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Posts filed under 'Travel'
The new way to island-hop? (Sunday Times)
Beneath me is the deep blue abyss of the Aegean.
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Liquid pleasure (New Statesman)
It takes 114 strokes of front crawl to swim from one end to the other.
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Dog days in Roman’s empire (Daily Telegraph)
The publisher’s blurb would have us believe that as the author and his team of huskies plunged over a Siberian precipice ‘into the abyss’, Allen asked himself: ‘why do explorers put themselves in such dangerous situations? And – once the worst possible situation occurs – how do they find the resources to survive?’
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Mesmerised by all the right spots (Financial Times)
Panthera pardus, Africa’s most secretive and intriguing wild animal, drew us to Namibia. The leopard eludes most visitors as well as most Africans. The other pull was the desert, which makes up the majority of this huge empty land of only 2m people.
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