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Walter Pellow

629 pieces so far, page 25 of 27

Solo travel

Ubud without a group, and the waterfalls in between the yoga

3 min read

History

Venice, built on the water it never quite tamed

4 min read

Rail

The toy train to Shimla, and the summer capital it served

4 min read

Seasons

Where to go in February, the shortest and most underrated month

4 min read

Culture

Giza's pyramids, and the city that grew up around them

3 min read

Journeys

Porto to Lisbon by bicycle, the coast in between

3 min read

First time

Sri Lanka in a fortnight, and what a fortnight leaves out

4 min read

Wildlife

The bears and the rainforest at the edge of the Pacific

3 min read

History

Córdoba, Seville, Granada, and the long goodbye of al-Andalus

5 min read

History

The war fought above the snow line

4 min read

Journeys

From a houseboat on Dal Lake to the high desert of Ladakh

4 min read

History

The Sacred Valley, and the empire built in terraces

4 min read

Slow travel

The Annapurna foothills, a gentler kind of trekking

4 min read

Culture

The Riviera the British invented and the French perfected

4 min read

Cruise

The seven ports Britain still sails from

4 min read

History

The island that changed flags more than a dozen times

4 min read

Solo travel

Solo to Istanbul and Cappadocia without going alone

3 min read

Culture

Sardinia, older than Rome and in no hurry to say so

3 min read

History

Delphi, Olympia and the questions the Greeks asked their gods

4 min read

Rail

The railways a tour is built around

4 min read

Cruise

The Kiel Canal, the shortcut a Kaiser dug

4 min read

History

Valletta, and the siege it was built to survive

4 min read

Culture

Puglia, and the houses built to vanish overnight

4 min read

Food & drink

Champagne, Burgundy, and the France no ship reaches

4 min read