by Anne Betts | Nov 21, 2024 | Other Travel Tips, Travel Stories
Updated November 21, 2024 What was it like to travel in the 1970s? The following 44 features capture some sense of what it was like, especially for young twenty-somethings with limited budgets. Did you travel in that era? Or were you regaled with stories of those who...
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 | 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...