Travel
The Skinny travel guide. We take an alternative approach to travel writing, exploring what it is to travel as well as sharing the unique international experiences of our writers. Sightseeing recommendations, features, guides and adventures for avid globetrotters to amateur travelers may also feature.
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Festivals
Festival Column: The Falls Festival, Tasmania
To me, New Year's Eve is a rubbish night. I almost inevitably find myself switching between the extreme heat of a sweaty party and the extreme cold of Scot... Read more »| 16 Nov 2011 -
Sightseeing
Go Away: To the Papay Gyro Arts Festival
Papa Westray is a remote island, 4 miles long and 1 mile wide just north of Kirkwall in the Orkney Isles. Since February, this tiny island has been the hom... Read more »| 14 Nov 2011 -
Features
A Good Feeling for Portugal?
Portugal, a country with an unexpected north-south divide, and an ample supply of hammocks. Read more »| 09 Nov 2011 -
Features
Meeting Mr Adventure: An interview with Charley Boorman
Professional traveller Charley Boorman discusses his forthcoming speaking tour on the vagaries of travelling the world, and gives sound advice on what to do in case of an elephant stampede Read more »| 28 Sep 2011 -
Features
Travel Bucket List
A traveller ponders his own mortality in terms of the trips not taken, and challenges us all to do likewise Read more »| 30 Aug 2011 -
Sightseeing
Bonnie Boat: Isle of Skye
Speed bonnie boat, like a bird on the wing, 'Onward!' The sailors cry. Carry the lazy urban dwellers (for just one day, it can't be that hard), over the sea ... Read more »| 29 Aug 2011
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Features
Delhi Belly
A resident of Delhi sees the city through the eyes of a newcomer Read more »| 12 Aug 2011 -
Sightseeing
Go Away! The Enchanted Forest, Perthshire
And it's not just those KaZantipians who believe in the power of the imagination, some folk in Perthshire do too it appears. They (the Highland Perthshire Co... Read more »| 04 Aug 2011 -
Festivals
Festival Column: KaZantip Republic
When is a festival not a festival? When it takes place in the non-existent state of KaZantip that's when, and therefore only exists in a parallel reality. Th... Read more »| 01 Aug 2011 -
Features
My Tellybox Debut
In a shameless bid to secure free merchandise, we sent Ray Philp to London to launch his acting career in a beer advert Read more »| 11 Jul 2011 -
Features
Hard Up Down Under
Cursing the vagaries of the world economy, our necessitous nomad fails to see the value in an overpriced Oz Read more »| 29 Jun 2011 -
Features
The Arizona Zone
Our venturesome explorer with the inside track on a landscape we're all familiar with - Monument Valley Read more »| 10 Jun 2011 -
Features
If Destroyed Still True #6 by Nine
Nine, former Deviance editor at Skinny Towers, is one of the most well-travelled people we know, pinballing around the globe to places as far flung as Austra... Read more »| 06 Jun 2011 -
Festivals
Festivals 2011: OFF, Poland
So, why pitch your tent at just one amazing August music festival in the Eastern part of Europe (see last month's piece on Sziget, Budapest) when you can hit... Read more »| 02 Jun 2011 -
Features
Trainhopping In Japan
Holiday in Japan, anyone? Ally Brown recommends it... when the smoke clears Read more »| 01 Jun 2011