Travel as a Way of Life

I first posted this article in 2016, but it's so useful for anyone who wants to go travelling that I'm re-posting it again now. In the interim, Darmon Richter has published a book that is well worth getting: Chernobyl: A Stalker's Guide

By Darmon Richter

People go travelling for all sorts of different reasons. I was having a coffee with a travel blogger friend not so long ago, and he was talking about a conference he’d just got back from. It was an industry thing, a huge international meeting of tour operators, hoteliers, travel guides and bloggers.

“All those famous travel bloggers,” he told me, “with the websites that get tens of thousands of hits every day – none of them just do it because they love it. They’re all running from something.” 1467