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    • THE STORY BEHIND THE WEBSITE:
      • From Parchment to Digital – Creating Our Travel Website
      • 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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Category: 01.About Our Website
  • HOME
  • THE ANCIENT HIGHWAY BLOG.
  • WEBSITE BASICS
  • From Parchment to Digital – Creating Our Travel Website
  • The truth, the whole truth …..
  • ANCIENT HIGHWAY STORIES – ABOUT THE TALES BELOW
  • 1. Orkney – A Pagan Place
  • 2. Lessons in contraband
  • 3. An Addictive Foe
  • Our India Travel Tales – Interactive Map
  • 4. (India) Mumbai: A Deathly Deception
  • 5. (India) An Innings Amongst the Dead
  • 6. (India) Lucknow: Educating Braj
  • 7. (India) Nainital – A Himalayan Winter’s Journey
  • 8. (India) Dharamsala and Simla
  • 9. (India) Tales From The Tracks
  • 10. (India) Fatehpur Sikri – City of Dreams
  • 11. (India) Mohan, Mohan who?
  • 12. (India) The Silence of Mandu
  • 13 . (Ecuador) The Virgin of Quito and Proof of Life
  • 14. (Ecuador) A Night at Sutra’s
  • 15. (Thailand) A Lift in Chiang Mai
  • 16. (Thailand) Tales of the Unexpected in Chiang Mai
  • 17. (Thailand) Bullets or Tranquility
  • 18. Mexico : A nonfiction novella
  • 19. My Pretty Peggy Sue – USA & UK (New)
  • 20. Living With Clive (New)
  • 21. In Defence of Travel Writing
  • 22. Ode to Travel Blogging
  • OUR TRAVEL BOOK REVIEWS
  • Just Across the Border Line – Book in progress (Pass protected)
    • I. INTRODUCTION
    • ii. YUGOSLAVIA – TWILIGHT ON THE ADRIATIC
    • iii. TOUCHING THE WALL – IN THE SHADOWS OF WARS (1)
    • iii. TOUCHING THE WALL – IN THE SHADOWS OF WARS (2)
    • iii. TOUCHING THE WALL – IN THE SHADOWS OF WARS (3)
    • iv. A REVOLUTION FROM THE SOFA
    • v. MIND GAMES IN BARCELONA
    • vi. CAIRO AND COURIERING
    • vii. BETWEEN MINARETS AND MISSILES
    • viii. THE LONELY HEART OF DARKNESS – A MOROCCAN ODYSSEY
    • ix. GERMANY – THROUGH EASTERN EUROPE – AUSTRIA 
    • x. BALTIC STATES & SAINT PETERSBURG
    • xi. MANITOBA: THE BEARS OF CHURCHILL
    • xii. ARRIVING IN MUMBAI
    • xiii. PAINTING THE WALL – ECHOES FROM A FAULT LINE 
    • xiv. A REFLECTION
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