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Allahabad

By Christopher Richardson Posted on 5th July 2016 Posted in Travel Writing Tagged with Allahabad, India, Travel

Final morn­ing in Varanasi. With sor­row, I bid farewell to my new friends in the guest­house, and to that view from the leg­endary Room Twelve. Soon I take a final walk along the ghats, and dis­ap­pear into the smoke-wreathed city. …

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Varanasi

By Christopher Richardson Posted on 7th March 2016 Posted in Travel Writing Tagged with Benares, India, Travel, Varanasi

This train feels less hos­pitable than the last, and some­one warns me to watch my bags. There seem a lot more twitch­ing stares than smiles, and I start to see thieves every­where. In fact, there are almost cer­tain­ly noth­ing of …

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From Calcutta to Bodh Gaya

By Christopher Richardson Posted on 4th March 2016 Posted in Travel Writing Tagged with Bodhgaya, Buddha, India, Travel

In Cal­cut­ta, I wake to the news that my teacher and friend Rod­er­ick West has died, tear­ing a hole in my heart. Yet such was the man’s intel­lect and spir­it that he always seemed eter­nal, so it is not so …

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Sa Pa

By Christopher Richardson Posted on 24th March 2015 Posted in Travel Writing Tagged with Sapa, Travel, Vietnam

The promise of a rail jour­ney fills the heart with the true spir­it of trav­el. Fly­ing always feels like cheat­ing. And so it was that full of the trav­el­ling spir­it I depart­ed on a sleep­er train from Hanoi to Lao …

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Hanoi

By Christopher Richardson Posted on 21st March 2015 Posted in Travel Writing Tagged with Hanoi, Travel, Vietnam

After a late depar­ture fol­low­ing fero­cious storms, I depart for a sky trem­bling with tur­bu­lence in an almost emp­ty Chi­nese plane. The Viet­namese sci­en­tist I befriend­ed in the long wait in Bei­jing keeps me com­pa­ny, and wor­ries as I become …

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The Hugging Mother of Kerala

By Christopher Richardson Posted on 1st January 2015 Posted in Travel Writing Tagged with Amma, India, Kerala, Travel

The back­wa­ters of Ker­ala are beau­ti­ful, a deluxe labyrinth of canals — some cool, coconut lined and qui­et, oth­ers as packed and pol­lut­ed as a Bom­bay fly­over. Depend­ing on your ten­den­cy to wor­ry, it is either Venice among the palms, …

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Lake Como

By Christopher Richardson Posted on 20th August 2014 Posted in Travel Writing Tagged with Italy, Lake Como, Travel

After the sexy excess­es of Milan, where could I go but up? Lake Como is the shim­mer­ing jew­el of the Ital­ian lakes dis­trict, and the Swiss Alps rise majes­ti­cal­ly on the hori­zon, like Clau­dia Car­di­nale reclin­ing in a blue satin …

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Milan

By Christopher Richardson Posted on 15th August 2014 Posted in Travel Writing Tagged with Italy, Milan, Travel

Strad­dling the north of Italy like a ruby-lipped suc­cubus, Milano is a city of dreams. More specif­i­cal­ly, the dreams of a strange cabal of mani­acs whose mil­lion­aire mis­sion in life is to dic­tate what you and I should wear, find attractive, …

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Istanbul

By Christopher Richardson Posted on 10th July 2014 Posted in Travel Writing Tagged with Istanbul, Travel, Turkey

Any­body who knows me well will know if there’s one thing I don’t under­stand above all else, it’s sport. Except, of course, for crick­et, which isn’t actu­al­ly a sport, is it? More of a real­ly big board game. And so …

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Cappadocia

By Christopher Richardson Posted on 8th July 2014 Posted in Travel Writing Tagged with Cappadocia, Travel, Turkey

The night bus to Cap­pado­cia was well enough, but we should have caught a rock­et ship. Cap­pado­cia is home to one of the most incred­i­ble land­scapes I have ever seen … almost as if God called up Dali, Gau­di and Giger …

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