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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SightseeingPortavadie: Hogmanay
As the cold, crisp air of winter begins to sting our noses, it is a common occurrence among a few friends of mine to jet off into the sunset ... Read more »| 23 Nov 2008 -
FeaturesPatrick Richardson: From Beyond
Sporting an unhealthy lust for danger, a nomadic desire to travel and a high threshold for discomfort, Patrick Richardson has spent 40 years exploring some of the world’s most remote places and scribbling about them in what has now become Reports from Beyond: A Journey through Life to Remote Places. Compiled by 52 travel reports for several broadsheets such as the Herald and the Scotsman, Richardson has travelled extensively through rural Africa, South America, Europe and Asia on a tiny budget, roaming his way through political upheaval, lawless regimes and poverty stricken countries. Read more »| 29 Oct 2008 -
Features
The Zurich Lowdown
In the second part of Alex Burden's feature on Zurich clubbing culture, we get in-depth clubs and artists engineering it. Read more »| 27 Oct 2008 -
FeaturesSo far, solo, so what?
Deviance editor Nine is no shrinking violet these days, perhaps never was. Here she recounts how she overcame the fear of travelling alone Read more »| 19 Oct 2008 -
Features
A Helping Hand in New Dehli
Arun ponders the nature of existence during a recent trip to India Read more »| 09 Oct 2008 -
FeaturesThe Couchsurfing Chronicles
Steve Clarkson is the latest to nestle up on someone else's settee. Get in touch if you've got couchsurfing tales of your own Read more »| 09 Oct 2008
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Features
Berlin Diptych: Part One
Two intrepid Skinny explorers recently spent time in Europe's cultural capital, and came away with radically different stories to tell. We ask 'So what's Berlin all about then?' Read more »| 12 Sep 2008 -
SightseeingFringe Freeze: A Guide to Festival escapism
Is the Edinburgh Festival scene the ideal of escapism, or does one, thrown into the centre of such a maelstrom, need some time out? Here we look at options to consider whilst taking it all in. If it becomes too much... Read more »| 04 Aug 2008 -
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Steppe on it! - Mongolia Rally 2008
As Mongol, the 'untold story of Genghis Khan', hits the cinemas, three fearless warriors from Edinburgh and Midlothian will be preparing for their own Mongol... Read more »| 17 Jun 2008 -
Festivals
The Skinny @ Coachella 2008
A festival in the Californian sun starring Prince, Portishead and 'Dark Side of the Moon' in full, you say? Ally Brown takes one for the team at Coachella 2008... Read more »| 12 May 2008 -
Festivals
F**k it, let's all go to Coachella
All your T in the Parks and Glastonburys will merge into one as you get older, but a festival like Coachella will likely be a once-in-a-lifetime adventure. Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Sightseeing
Go Away! - Bangkok
Few people head to Thailand for the sake of the capital, but The Skinny specialises in unearthing unexpected treats. Here Deborah Martin gives her insider's guide to bustling Bangkok Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Sightseeing
Go Away! Hit the Road
Got somewhere to go? Or just mournful for the passing of the Beat generation? In the month of the fiftieth anniversary of Jack Kerouac's classic On The Road, Nine considers the pros and cons of hitching now Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
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Go Away! - to San Francisco
If you're going to send the Music Editor off to write a travel piece, there can be few places better suited than San Fran. Luckily, Dave Kerr was taken by the city's various cultural offerings Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
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Go Away! - to Afghanistan
For the sake of this Opposites issue, we decided to drop the usual 'recommended' travel piece for a more alternative report. Here Jeff Jackson recounts an eventful US Army tour of duty in Afghanistan Read more »| 10 Jul 2007