This column first appeared in the Sunday Times (here) on Sunday 21st May 2023. PULLING THE PLUG – By Paige Nick I’m in a hotel. Not the kind you’re probably picturing on hearing that. I don’t want to mislead you. There are different kinds of hotels. This one is a cheap airport hotel, in a…
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Travel fomo: it’s a thing, people. And I have it bad
This column first appeared in The Sunday Times on 5 August 2018. ACCIDENTAL TOURIST – SUNDAY TIMES TRAVEL FOMO By Paige Nick My father is an adventurer. A month ago, he spent two nights in a barely-anything by barely-anything-meter-squared hide, to watch bears mating in the wild. He was somewhere near Khumo, Finland, and otherwise…
Waiter, there’s an iguana in my soup.
THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST – BUDAPEST – By Paige Nick SUNDAY TIMES TRAVEL SECTION 9 JULY 2017 I’m a terrible tourist. I do minimal research and generally travel to cities with no expectations, other than some vague postcard images or memories from TV or movies, filed in the back of my mind. And the knowledge that…