by Anne Betts | Apr 7, 2024 | Other Travel Tips, Travel Stories, Travel Tips
Updated April 7, 2024 Recurring themes in travel groups are the inability to find a travel companion and reluctance to travel alone. Finding a ‘stranger buddy’ online is always a risk, and being paired with another traveller by a tour company doesn’t...
by Anne Betts | Dec 22, 2023 | Travel Stories
Updated December 22, 2023 Youthful misadventures abound in the Ernie Diaries motorcycle adventure 1973. From London to Iran , the book chronicles the travels of Ernie, an old Norton ES2 that took two ordinary people to extraordinary places in an earlier era. Ernie...
by Anne Betts | May 1, 2023 | Other Travel Tips, Travel Stories
Updated May 1, 2023 During the pandemic when travel as we knew it felt like a remnant of the past, I found myself reflecting on my early international travel experiences. Musing involved three questions. What was it like to travel in the 1970s? What’s better?...
by Anne Betts | Feb 3, 2018 | Other Travel Tips, Travel Stories
Scouring book lists of stories set in various countries will invariably uncover examples of travel that has inspired books, and books that have inspired travel. In my case, doing so reminded me of the book that changed my life. Setting the scene I’ll try not to be too...