Timothysalmon's Blog

Here is a selection from the  travel articles I have written over the last twenty years. I have chosen the ones I find most interesting or most enjoyed writing. I have provided links, where possible, to the publication in which they appeared. One or two never actually made it into print; these are linked to my own sources, as are those I wrote for The Sunday Times, whose online archive stops, for the moment, at 1985. Just clink on the link to bring up the text. To identify the photographs, hang your cursor over each one.

FRANCE

Corsica: walking the GR20. High times on a hard road; The Independent, Saturday 23 April 1994.

Paris:Belleville. Last refuge of the proletaires; The Independent, Saturday 22 October 1994.

Pyrenees: walking the GR10.Fat marmots whistled from the surrounding rocks; The Independent, Saturday 16 March 1996.

The Canal du Midi. Going straight; The Sunday Times, 15 March 1998.The

GR65: the way of St James. Cross Country; The Sunday Times, 25 July 1999.

Vineyards of south-west France. Round-up and Resurrection; written for The Sunday Times, 1999.

Walking across France. Sea to Sea: Dunkirk to the Mediterranean; ActivPursuits, 8 May 2002.

The plight of France’s small farmers. The Empty Quarter; written for The Guardian, 2004.

GREECE

Crete 1963. Fresh to the university of life; The Independent, Saturday 23 July 1994.
The demise of Europe’s peasantry. Flocking to the Future; The Guardian, Wednesday August 25 1999.
Mount Athos. Men Only; The Sunday Times, 16 August 1998.

Pilion. Greece; The Sunday Times, 18 April 1999.

The islands of the Cyclades. The Aegean: A Magic Circle; The Sunday Times, 23 May 1999.

Athens. Acropolis Now; The Sunday Times, 26 September 1999.

Damming the river Achelöos. Waters of Life; The Guardian, Wednesday December 6 2000.

Climbing Mt Olympus. Mountain of the Gods; The Independent, 5 September 2004.

TURKEY

Walking the Lycian Way with its creator, Kate Clow. All the World Beneath Your Feet; The Sunday Times, July 23 2000.

Walking the Kaçkar mountains of north-west Turkey with Kate Clow, author of The Kaçkar: Trekking in Turkey’s Black Sea mountains (with Terry Richardson; ISBN 978-0-9539218-5-0; £13.pp; , see Lycian Way website above). High-level research, The Independent, Saturday 8 March 2008.

Yusufeli: damming the river Coruh. The Coruh river: an indefinable asset; written for The Guardian, 2007.

MISCELLANEOUS

Ireland. The Aran Islands; written for The Sunday Times, 1999.

Bun Ghabla

Dun Duchathair

Mweeleenareeava

Cliffs at Dun Aonghasa

Central Asia. Uzbekistan: written for The Sunday Times, 2000.

Trekking to Everest Base Camp. On top of the world (almost); The Independent, 21 May 2005.

Schizophrenia: the weakness and failings of the care system. My son has schizophrenia. Why can’t the system cope?; The Observer, Focus, 19 November 2006.