Tell us about your travel hero: readers’ travel tips
Dervla Murphy’s intrepid bike rides, Bruce Chatwin’s original storytelling or Freya Stark’s Arabian adventures … this week we’d like to hear about your travel hero. They may not be a …
Read More
Holiday
The imaginary American town that became a tourist attraction
In 2008, Argleton village in west Lancashire appeared on Google, complete with weather reports, a job site and an estate agent advertising houses for sale. Argleton vanished two years later. …
Read MoreRichard Francis Burton … dashing explorer of the exotic and erotic
Passport detailsSir Richard Francis Burton, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer and diplomat. Claim to fameIt says something about the shallowness of celebrity that a …
Read More