kerraway.bsky.social
@kerraway.bsky.social
Reader, writer, runner. No longer flying for work. Son of Portstewart, Co Derry, citizen of the world. Editor of deskboundtraveller.com.
My travel books of the year, including work from @monisharajesh.bsky.social, Lyse Doucet, Norman Lewis, @joannapocock.bsky.social, @adamweymouth.bsky.social & @peteralanross.bsky.social:
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November 28, 2025 at 6:10 PM
My travel books of the year, including work from @monisharajesh.bsky.social, Lyse Doucet, Norman Lewis, @joannapocock.bsky.social, @adamweymouth.bsky.social & @peteralanross.bsky.social:
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Feathering the moon…
November 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Feathering the moon…
Back to regular runs after injury, including two five-milers in a week. Thanks again to the Boss -- and the dead poets...
November 15, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Back to regular runs after injury, including two five-milers in a week. Thanks again to the Boss -- and the dead poets...
Looking forward to 'Travels Through the Spanish Civil War' by Nick Lloyd (@spaincivilwartours.bsky.social), coming later this month (@hurstpublishers.bsky.social):
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November 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Looking forward to 'Travels Through the Spanish Civil War' by Nick Lloyd (@spaincivilwartours.bsky.social), coming later this month (@hurstpublishers.bsky.social):
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Kabul's Intercontinental Hotel remains 'a monument to Afghan resilience & to the bravery of its staff,' says @willdalrymple.bsky.social. In Lyse Doucet, '& her witty & sometimes heartbreaking book, they have found a worthy chronicler.'
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October 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Kabul's Intercontinental Hotel remains 'a monument to Afghan resilience & to the bravery of its staff,' says @willdalrymple.bsky.social. In Lyse Doucet, '& her witty & sometimes heartbreaking book, they have found a worthy chronicler.'
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
‘Potus, in full manuka honey-hued visibility, appeared thrilled with the spectacle in his honour.’ — @jemima.bsky.social, in today’s @financialtimes.com, captures the Trumpery in Windsor.
September 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
‘Potus, in full manuka honey-hued visibility, appeared thrilled with the spectacle in his honour.’ — @jemima.bsky.social, in today’s @financialtimes.com, captures the Trumpery in Windsor.
New and forthcoming books on travel and place: @peteralanross.bsky.social journeys through Ancient Britain & Ireland; Miles Morland goes round the world -- twice -- on a motorcycle; and
@bfox.bsky.social spends the Covid pandemic with curanderos in Peru.
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@bfox.bsky.social spends the Covid pandemic with curanderos in Peru.
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September 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
New and forthcoming books on travel and place: @peteralanross.bsky.social journeys through Ancient Britain & Ireland; Miles Morland goes round the world -- twice -- on a motorcycle; and
@bfox.bsky.social spends the Covid pandemic with curanderos in Peru.
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@bfox.bsky.social spends the Covid pandemic with curanderos in Peru.
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Dipping again into the work of Byron Rogers, who died earlier this month. Reminded that he was a journalist, author, biographer, part-time speechwriter to the Prince of Wales... and a master of the drop intro.
August 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Dipping again into the work of Byron Rogers, who died earlier this month. Reminded that he was a journalist, author, biographer, part-time speechwriter to the Prince of Wales... and a master of the drop intro.
From a lost horizon in Worthing to Shangri-La...
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August 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
From a lost horizon in Worthing to Shangri-La...
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Fifty years since Springsteen released 'Born to Run', and it's still helping me hit the road...
August 25, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Fifty years since Springsteen released 'Born to Run', and it's still helping me hit the road...
The camera never lies -- but it can be used to suggest that we're looking at something other than what was there, especially in the Arctic...
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August 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The camera never lies -- but it can be used to suggest that we're looking at something other than what was there, especially in the Arctic...
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In 2021, with Covid restrictions easing, I was introduced to the rewilding project at Knepp (@kneppwilding.bsky.social) and — thanks to a painting in the downstairs loo — transported back to Nicaragua…
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August 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
In 2021, with Covid restrictions easing, I was introduced to the rewilding project at Knepp (@kneppwilding.bsky.social) and — thanks to a painting in the downstairs loo — transported back to Nicaragua…
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What was it like to move home during the pandemic? Something like this...
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July 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
What was it like to move home during the pandemic? Something like this...
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Never been a fan of heavy metal, but I do love the writing of Elif Shafak. Having read her tribute in @theobserveruk.bsky.social to Ozzy Osbourne, I'm thinking maybe I need new ears:
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July 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Never been a fan of heavy metal, but I do love the writing of Elif Shafak. Having read her tribute in @theobserveruk.bsky.social to Ozzy Osbourne, I'm thinking maybe I need new ears:
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What real humanitarian organisations are saying about Gaza…
July 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
What real humanitarian organisations are saying about Gaza…
Answering a call of nature…?
July 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Answering a call of nature…?
The perfect poem to recite in your head on a morning run when the temperature already feels like 23C at 9 o'clock:
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July 18, 2025 at 9:21 AM
The perfect poem to recite in your head on a morning run when the temperature already feels like 23C at 9 o'clock:
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42891/....
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Following birdwatchers, as they have followed birds, has taken me to places I would never otherwise have seen...
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July 16, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Following birdwatchers, as they have followed birds, has taken me to places I would never otherwise have seen...
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Just the weather for…
July 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Just the weather for…
Its front section may no longer look like a newspaper, but The Observer is still producing some tremendous journalism.
July 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Its front section may no longer look like a newspaper, but The Observer is still producing some tremendous journalism.
And the last thing you need, as you retreat indoors from the sweltering heat...
July 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
And the last thing you need, as you retreat indoors from the sweltering heat...
How a bottle of hand gel took me all the way to Colombia during the pandemic:
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June 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
How a bottle of hand gel took me all the way to Colombia during the pandemic:
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How I was carried off to Australia during the pandemic -- through the music of Mark Seymour.
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June 18, 2025 at 5:10 PM
How I was carried off to Australia during the pandemic -- through the music of Mark Seymour.
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Valerian bursting from the shingle in Worthing, in front of a block of flats that really wanted to be a boat.
June 12, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Valerian bursting from the shingle in Worthing, in front of a block of flats that really wanted to be a boat.