Peter Carty runs short travel writing courses online and in London. For the last three decades he has been a contributor to The Guardian, The Independent, The Financial Times, The Telegraph, Conde Nast Traveller, Esquire and numerous other publications. As…
Having enjoyed an uninhabited stillness for most of human history, Sharm el-Sheikh is now a lively tourist town that dances with the desert. Its clear waters and extensive coral reefs line a host of luxurious accommodations, steeped in cultural…
Travel can be like picking up a new language through the experience of the senses. Many of us holiday, but comparatively few of us find ourselves with the tools and resources needed to go deeper, and to create lasting…
Wyrd is a concept in Anglo-Saxon culture roughly corresponding to fate or personal destiny. The word is ancestral to the Modern English ‘weird’, whose meaning has drifted towards an adjectival use with a more general sense of ‘supernatural’, ‘uncanny’,…
If the Camera Obscura is a darkened room that renders complex reality into something 2-dimensional and discrete through a pin-hole, we might conceive of an Atlas Obscura as a collection of maps that pinpoint the obscure and turn it…
As restrictions lift and the dregs of the pandemic seem to be washing away, the tide is turning and ushering in a remote new world, where digital is the new detox and homeless is now wholesome. It’s never been…
Unplugged are a weekend ‘Digital Detox Retreat’ that help you to recharge – by disconnecting to reconnect. Here’s what happened when I locked my phone away in an off-grid cabin, in order to escape from everyone and everything. …
I first met Suzie just as she was leaving life as an investment banker in London and heading for the beaches of Bali. Ahead of the game, she had cottoned onto the fact that in an increasingly digital world,…
The Fiat Tribute Campervan is a traveller not a tourist. She doesn’t believe in ticking boxes or visiting sites that are simply ‘the thing to do’. She prefers taking chances, going off grid, uncovering hidden gems and bathing in…
One of my favourite extracts about Bali comes from the Author David Abram: Late one evening I stepped out of my little hut in the rice paddies of eastern Bali and found myself falling through space. Over my head the…
There’s something uniquely wholesome about the British Countryside, a holistic quality that renders it incomparable. The Peak District is one of our many treasured expanses; originally England’s first ever National Park thanks to its awe-inspiring raw beauty. Amongst the…
