Archive - Marklands

These precious words

Why we, and the planet, are lucky to have Robert Macfarlane

Jun 25 •

This is what peace looks like

A visit to Austria gets me all dewy-eyed about the Europe that is, that was and where we might be heading

Jun 3 •

May 2025

When travel people take the blue pill

Why we choose an alternative, Barbie-style world over the real one

May 22 •

Meet one of the happiest people in the world

Does it matter if the people in the countries you're visiting are content with their lot?

May 7 •

March 2025

The Author v Ryanair

The result may not be what you’d expect as we look at the no-frills airline and its novel attitude to customer service

Mar 6 •

February 2025

Bombs and flowers

We continue to follow the Racing Club de Blackheath’s historic tours of a changing world with visits to Cuba and Lebanon as a new century dawns

Feb 21 •

January 2025

The world at our feet (sort of)

We thought it was all over – but it wasn't. How South London's most intrepid and senior parks football team rediscovered its wanderlust

Jan 16 •

December 2024

Postcard from the edge

The green valleys and hills of the Khasi are part of – yet somehow apart from – India. And they have a shared history with another marginal, poetic…

Dec 12, 2024 •

November 2024

Green hills, smoggy temples and English footballers

A report from Shillong (which is in India, but only just)

Nov 20, 2024 •

September 2024

Feeling better on an autumn day

There's nothing like a nasty illness to make you appreciate the world and get all travel writerly about it

Sep 26, 2024 •

How to read a place

Which books make you want to travel? Here's a story about one that changed the way I saw my destination

Sep 19, 2024 •

August 2024

The legend of the local

We are meant to eat and drink like them and visit places only they know about. Here's how travel writers and the travel business fell for the cult of…

Aug 13, 2024 •

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