First-person memoir and travel writing from a woman who spent 35 years in Mexico's tourism industry, much of it in Akumal and Cancun. Issues tell vivid, anecdotal stories about diving, cave exploration, ayahuasca, and daily life on the Yucatan coast from the 1990s onward.
Website: https://stories.kaywalten.com
A personal blog-style newsletter mixing first-person travel writing and photography from rural Vietnam with detailed investigations of Chinese porcelain bought at auction and from collectors. Readers get close observation and worked examples of how to test an attribution using marks, measurements, magnification and UV light.
A daily pilgrim's journal written from the Hutsul Carpathians in Ukraine, mixing personal reflection, mountain landscape and local folk custom. Readers get short, contemplative entries that tie the seasons, the old and new church calendars and village lore to the writer's walk.
A personal blog of long-form essays linking travel, literature, history and natural history, with subjects ranging from the Epic of Gilgamesh to black walnut trees and medieval itinerary maps. Readers get reflective, well-researched writing that treats places and texts together.
Long-form personal essays and travel writing by a former Metropolitan Police officer, mixing firsthand experience of London policing with writing about places like Charleston. Readers get vivid, narrative-driven pieces that tie lived experience to policy and place.
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