Travel Writing Index

[Glaurung]

Jubal and others have contributed a lot of travel writing over the last few years, and I thought it might be useful to have an index page to provide a quick reference to it all. So here it is. If you think there's anything else that should be included, please post to say so.

Jubal
The Cantons That Weren't: A Trip To Konstanz and Liechtenstein (April 2024)
Of Tesserae Discarded: A Trip to Ravenna and San Marino (February 2024)
A City for a Changing World: A Trip to Varna (October 2023)
In The Shadows of Mountains: A Trip to Yerevan (July 2023)
Old Vines and Swallows' Tails: A Trip to Maribor (August 2022)
The Lion, the Lagoon, and the Lovers: A Trip To Venice (April 2022)
Stones, Stories, and Wasted Salt: A Visit to Carthage (March 2020)
Wine of the Sun, Port of the Moon: A Trip to Bordeaux (December 2019)
Stories and histories: A Trip to Tbilisi (July 2019)
Amid the Building of Europe: A Trip to Limburg and Aachen (May 2019)
Lindworms and Sparrows: A Trip to Klagenfurt (spring 2019)
Of regrown leaves: three months in Frankfurt (April - July 2019)
Leaning in the Wind: A Trip to Galway (December 2018)
Gold and Salt: A Visit to Salzburg (November 2018)
Jubal in Vienna: Learnings And Suchlike (August 2017 onward)

Glaurung
Not in Nargothrond, or, Glaurung's travels (various trips, August 2014 onward)

rbuxton
The Edge of the Edge of the World (posted July 2024)
Beyond the Wall (Mexico, 2023): Part One (posted March 2024), Part Two (posted April 2024)
Three Accidents in Andalucía (February 2023)

[Jubal]

Thanks for compiling this

[Glaurung]

Updated to include Jubal's visit to Venice last month.

[Jubal]

I'm considering doing a short & impromptu (two nights or something) trip this week, either Maribor or Brno but not sure which. Any thoughts on either?

[Glaurung]

Brno is a lot larger than Maribor, if I'm not mistaken, so more likely to have museums and other attractions. It's also nearer to Vienna and with a rather better train service (a through train every 2 hours, plus connections).

I've only had a brief visit to Maribor, but as I recall it has a pleasant historic city centre, with a range of big hills immediately to the north and west, so probably opportunities for more outdoor activities. The rail service is two through trains a day, plus sporadic connections with a change at Graz and Spielfeld Strass (the Austrian border station).

[Jubal]

I decided on Maribor in the end, in part because it's fairly small so should be possible to see a good amount of in the time. I'm doing the janky two-changes route out tomorrow, and coming back on a direct train on Thursday evening.

Will report back once I've been, of course

[Glaurung]

I hope all goes well, and I look forward to the report.

[Jubal]

I have duly been and returned: report will be forthcoming when I have the time and energy to write it up (and do the additional research - they often involve quite a lot of Wiki trawls at the very least).

[Glaurung]

Thanks for the report, which I enjoyed - Maribor sounds like somewhere I'd like to go back to. I've updated the list in the OP.

[Jubal]

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

I'm just wondering, would it make more sense for the order to be reverse-chronological rather than chronological in the list? That way people see the most recent things first rather than heading through all the older stuff.

Edit 26/03: added Three Accidents in Andalucía and reverse-chronologied the order (this is partly pettiness on my part because I think I've got marginally better at writing these coherently so I'd rather people didn't just pick my Vienna ramble first).

[Glaurung]

OP updated to include the Yerevan trip - another enjoyable and highly evocative read.

[Jubal]

Thank you, I'm glad you liked it!

I've been wondering about sometime doing audio versions of these and putting them on the Exilian YouTube. I don't know if they'd get enough listeners to be worth the time spent though.

[Glaurung]

I've added the Ravenna and San Marino trip to the list. As one of the other participants, I should say that in addition to (once again) being an engaging write-up, it's also given me some insights that I missed at the time.

[Jubal]

Thank you! And yes, I likewise added a lot to my knowledge post-hoc with additional reading, but it definitely paid off in terms of feeling I was fitting things together better in my head.

[Glaurung]

I've added Jubal's trip to Konstanz and Liechtenstein. Well worth a read.