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: TweedLove Bike Week
In a national survey in 2005, listeners to BBC Radio 4's You and Yours programme voted the bicycle as the most significant invention since the 1800s, miles a... Read more »| 01 Jun 2011 -
Features
The Cottage Residential Music Studio: Alt-holidays for (alt-) Musicians
The marketplace can sometimes cater to extreme niche tastes. For example, it's possible to acquire your very own dinosaur bones, fried burger-scented candl... Read more »| 04 May 2011 -
Festivals
Festival Column: Sziget, Budapest
One of the world’s largest musical and cultural festivals takes place in August, but you knew that already, right? And that it offers exceptional value... Read more »| 21 Apr 2011 -
Features
Rancid Authenticity and Other Stories: How To Be A Decent Couchsurfer
Websites like couchsurfing.org are increasingly popular for finding free accommodation, but users may need to get to grips with the etiquette Read more »| 08 Apr 2011 -
Sightseeing
Go Away! Outdoor Activities in Fort William and Lochaber
Where? Adrenalising outdoor activity in Fort William and Lochaber. What? More specifically, a mountain bike marathon, or if H2O’s your thing, white wa... Read more »| 05 Apr 2011 -
Sightseeing
Go Away! To Christopher Street Day, Berlin
Where? Christopher Street Day (CSD), Berlin. What? Annual European LGBT celebration. Generally known as Gay Pride events elsewhere, in Germany they are na... Read more »| 26 Mar 2011
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Features
Middle Eastern Travels: Day-trips in the West Bank
Stressed by the big city, a traveller takes a wee jaunt to Hebron Read more »| 04 Mar 2011 -
Sightseeing
Go Away! To Dublin for St. Patrick's Day
Where? Dublin for St Patrick's Day. What? The St. Patrick's Parade in Dublin opens the annual festival with a dazzling display from street theatre troupes,... Read more »| 04 Mar 2011 -
Sightseeing
Go Away! - To Inchcolm Island, Firth of Forth
Where? Inchcolm Island, Firth of Forth. What? Apart from the occasional trip across the bridges, or a frankly insane ‘Looney Dook’ on New Year&r... Read more »| 22 Feb 2011 -
Features
Elite Encounters in Pakistan
A backpacker finds himself upgraded to the royal suite for one night only Read more »| 05 Feb 2011 -
Festivals
Festival Column: Fort William Mountain Festival 2011
With the winters we’ve been having, who hasn’t plodded and stumbled along in the vast tranches of the white stuff and thought “I could real... Read more »| 04 Feb 2011 -
Features
MOAB: Adrenaline Town
Our fearless writer takes on the thrills and extreme spills of a small town in Utah Read more »| 15 Jan 2011 -
Features
Charity Hitchhike to Morocco/Prague. Where Will the Road Take You?
This Easter why not put those itchy feet to work for a good cause? Read more »| 05 Jan 2011 -
Features
On: The runs in Mexico - The Diarrhoeas of a Medical Triallist
Our man in Mexico pulls out all the (pit)stops in the name of advancing science Read more »| 15 Dec 2010 -
Sightseeing
Go Away! To Snowbombing '11
It's rumoured the snow could be here until March, that is if the forecasters are to be believed. Of course, after the past couple of winters we're now so acc... Read more »| 14 Dec 2010