It feels strange to write about travel plans for the year ahead, when the year itself has already begun with adventures. We welcomed 2024 on the edge of Zhongshan Park in Taipei, the Taiwanese capital, buzzing with excitement (and espresso…
2023: The Year in Review on Stories My Suitcase Could Tell
2022 might have been declared the year of “revenge travel” by the media, but 2023 was the year when travel really returned for me. In fact, I’d venture to say it was the busiest travel year I’ve had in a…
Cianalas: The Gaelic “Homesickness”
“A Lewis man would be homesick in heaven.” I’m not sure where I first heard it, but this phrase – about the island in the Outer Hebrides where I’m from – has stuck with me ever since. It felt particularly…
Celebrating 12 Years of Stories My Suitcase Could Tell
“Hunt for the un-Googleable.” Sophy Roberts, journalist and author of The Lost Pianos of Siberia, was sitting in front of packed bookshelves, talking about travel writing. I was sitting curled up on my living room couch with my laptop in…
The Perfect Autumn Weekend in Lisbon
From above, the terracotta rooftops of Lisbon looked as if they were flowing over the city’s hills, up and down the urban slopes towards the water in the distance. Portugal’s capital, one of the oldest in Europe, was built on…
Lisbon’s Tram 28: A Must-Have Experience in Portugal
Everywhere you go in Lisbon, there are trams. They’re chugging up steep hills in historic Alfama; slicing through public squares in Chiado; gliding along parallel to the river heading out to Belem. And everything you read about Lisbon will tell…
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