The Ancient Highway

– Journeys from the edge

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      • THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH …..
    • ANCIENT HIGHWAY STORIES (1-3) – UK
      • 1. Orkney – A Pagan Place
      • 2. Lessons in contraband
      • 3. An Addictive Foe
    • ANCIENT HIGHWAY STORIES (4-13) – INDIA
      • Our India Travel Tales – Interactive Map
      • (4-5) Mumbai
        • 5. Mumbai: A Deathly Deception
      • 6. An Innings Amongst the Dead
      • 7. Lucknow – Educating Braj
      • (8-9) Himalaya
        • 8. Himalayan foothills – Nainital
        • 9. Himalayan foothills – Dharamsala and Simla
      • 10. India Rail – Tales From The Tracks
      • (11-12) Fatehpur
        • 11. Fatehpur Sikri – City of Dreams
        • 12. Fatehpur Sikri – Mohan, Mohan who?
      • 13. The Silence of Mandu
    • ANCIENT HIGHWAY STORIES (14-15) – ECUADOR ⛔️ ✋
      • 14. The Virgin of Quito
      • 15. A Night at Sutra’s ⛔️ ✋
    • ANCIENT HIGHWAY STORIES (16- 18) – THAILAND ⛔️ ✋
      • 16. Tales of the Unexpected in Chiang Mai
      • 17. A Lift in Chiang Mai
      • 18. Bullets or Tranquility
    • ANCIENT HIGHWAY STORIES (19-22) – EVEN BETTER
      • Mexico : A nonfiction novella
      • 23. MY Pretty Peggy Sue – USA & UK
      • 24. Living With Clive
    • 25. IN DEFENCE OF TRAVEL WRITING
    • WHEN TRAVEL WRITING STAYED HOME
      • Royal Air Force Museum – Cosford
      • Bob Dylan – Phoenix Festival, England, 1995
      • The word on the street – Adolescent wartime memories
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  • LIVING WITH CLIVE (new)
  • JUST ACROSS THE BORDER LINE (PASS PROTECTED)
    • INTRODUCTION
    • TWILIGHT ON THE ADRIATIC
    • TOUCHING THE WALL
      • TOUCHING THE WALL – IN THE SHADOWS OF WARS (1)
      • TOUCHING THE WALL – IN THE SHADOWS OF WARS (2)
      • TOUCHING THE WALL – IN THE SHADOWS OF WARS (3)
    • A REVOLUTION FROM THE SOFA
    • MIND GAMES IN BARCELONA
    • CAIRO AND COURIERING
    • BETWEEN MINARETS AND MISSILES
    • Into the Lonely Heart of Darkness – A Moroccan Odyssey
    • GERMANY – THROUGH EASTERN EUROPE – AUSTRIA 
    • Travel Notes from the Baltics & Saint Petersburg
    • A Manitoba journey: In the shadows of bears
    • Arriving in Mumbai – First encounters
    • PAINTING THE WALL – ECHOES FROM A FAULT LINE 
    • A REFLECTION
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A word to the wise!

The collection of stories I have chosen to upload to this website cover a fair period of time. Most of my writings go back over twenty years. If I were to only experience the events described yesterday, then I am sure my writing style would be noticeably different. For one, in places, I would certainly be less flippant and more politically correct. Indeed, if I had shared some of these writings with my senior managers at the time, I might well have been escorted from the building and suspended.

But the tales are what they are. They reflect events that happened to me in a certain location on a particular day and how my mind processed these. As such the stories are not for reinventing – and yes, everything they recount, is as it happened.

What this does mean is that there may be elements (language and circumstances) in these travel writing excerpts that some readers may find offensive. Where this may be the case, I have included a warning note at the start of the item.

So please tread carefully. The ancienthighway.com cannot be held responsible for any effects its content has on your mental health.

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