Category Archives: Travel

Three tales

Posted on November 28, 2014 by Jamie Jauncey

Here are three tales. The first: I’m currently reading Robert Macfarlane’s best-seller, The Old Ways. It’s a hard book to describe but essentially it sets out his thoughts on how we shape landscape and it shapes us, as he follows … Continue reading →

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Indelible INK

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Jamie Jauncey

We’re sitting in a darkened auditorium in an upmarket conference centre in Cochin. Outside, the sun beats down on the palm-fringed waterway that separates some of us from our hotel bedrooms. This is Kerala and everywhere the backwaters, as they’re … Continue reading →

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Tyger! Tyger!

Posted on November 8, 2013 by Jamie Jauncey

Ranthambore National Park, in eastern Rajasthan, is a cross between the Garden of Eden and the setting for Kipling’s The Jungle Book. A short (by Indian standards) train ride from Jaipur, it’s 150 square miles of gentle wooded hills, lakes … Continue reading →

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Movies and Moghuls

Posted on October 4, 2013 by Jamie Jauncey

There was a small tsunami of encouragement following my last week’s post about the possible film of The Witness. So much so, in fact, that I wondered whether some people might have taken it as a fait accompli – which … Continue reading →

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Mating call

Posted on June 7, 2013 by Jamie Jauncey

Do these serendipitous moments happen more frequently as one gets older? Or is it simply that one becomes more alert to the possibility of connections as intimations of mortality start to bear in and one seeks a more secure anchorage … Continue reading →

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Arctic fox

Posted on January 18, 2013 by Jamie Jauncey

Yesterday I travelled through a monochrome landscape. It reminded me of those 17th century Dutch winter scenes with skaters and dogs, pedlars and musicians, taking their pleasure or plying their trade under leaden skies, all watched over by crows in … Continue reading →

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Treetops

Posted on September 13, 2012 by Jamie Jauncey

I was three years old in 1952 when young Princess Elizabeth learnt of the death of her father, George VI. She was staying at Treetops Hotel in Kenya’s Aberdare National Park. Jim Corbett, the famous white hunter, later charmingly wrote: … Continue reading →

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Waking up

Posted on September 7, 2012 by Jamie Jauncey

Last year at the Edinburgh International Book Festival I chaired Michael Ondaatje as he talked about his latest novel, The Cat’s Table, a fictionalised account of the journey he had made as an 11-year-old in a passenger liner, from Ceylon … Continue reading →

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Falling in love

Posted on August 31, 2012 by Jamie Jauncey

‘Grecia no!’ A border policemen lifts his chin in that peculiarly dismissive way the Greeks have of signifying a negative – in this case that there is something wrong with the bewildered Italian backpacker’s passport and he’s not going to be … Continue reading →

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On the road

Posted on August 10, 2012 by Jamie Jauncey

In 1967, my last year at school, I discovered that there was a bursary for classicists to travel to Greece. It was one of those things that no one told you about but I got wind of it somehow and … Continue reading →

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