Turlough's Terrific Travel Tales
By Turlough
I've visited many wonderful countries and had many wonderful adventures. I'd be delighted if the people in those countries remember me with even half as much fondness as I remember them. Here are some of my recollections of those great days ... and nights.
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Following Magda
It seemed like night although it was only about three o’clock in the afternoon as I approached the little old twin towns of Bernkastel-Kues which...
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Maglic Moments
A piece of writing I did a good while back for the travel company, Exodus Travels. Neither the trip nor I were very glossy but they were very happy to include it in their glossy promotional literature. The Green Visions Travel Agency in Sarajevo used it too. And no, there isn’t a typo in the title.
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Elisabeth and the Bonbon Girls
Elisabeth and the Bonbon Girls Alone, I walked along the dusty path that led away from the termite-ravaged back gate of the small French colonial-...
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Trans Europe Express
We only crossed a tiny bit of Europe but in the time it took the train on which we were travelling to get from the city of Gorna Oryahovitsa in...
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A Viennese Whirl
A Viennese Whirl What a disappointment! We spent three whole days in this beautiful historic city but at no point did anybody offer us a Viennese...
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The Bratislava Pálava - Part One of Two
Have you ever gone away on your holidays and bumped into a foreign head of state? I’d often dreamt of sitting next to Joe Biden on a pensioners’ day...
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The Bratislava Pálava - Part Two of Two
If you missed The Bratislava Pálava - Part One, here's a link https://www.abctales.com/story/turlough/bratislava-p%C3%A1lava-part-one-two But if you...
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Miss Australia 1978 – Part Two of Four
Unfortunately, I didn’t have my mobile phone with me because at that stage of the rampant global advance in technology they had yet to be invented,...
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Miss Australia 1978 – Part Three of Four
From the cockpit, Captain Australia (the world’s first marsupial superhero) announced that we would be landing in Naples, Muscat, Bombay, Singapore...
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Miss Australia 1978 – Part Four of Four
Kev sat down on my settee with a beer from my fridge to watch the racing results on my television. Jim in Glasgow had paid for all of these things,...
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Miss Australia 1978 – Part One of Four
If we were allowed to make up our own birth signs I reckon I’d probably go for Hermes (not herpes) because in Greek mythology, he was the god of...
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Our Man in Golubac
As sweat ran down my temples the man at the other end of the telephone line told me that he spoke Bulgarian, which came as a massive relief to me...
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The Targovishte Quandary - Part 1 of 3
My dark and disturbing encounter in Eastern Europe.
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The Targovishte Quandary - Part 2 of 3
My dark and disturbing encounter in Eastern Europe continues.
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The Targovishte Quandary - Part 3 of 3
My dark and disturbing encounter in Eastern Europe – it’s the final countdown!
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Ticket to Tehran
The story of a magic carpet-ride through Persia - Part One.
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A Fistful of Rials
The story of a magic carpet-ride through Persia - Part Two.
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Lovely Palace, Must Fly
The story of a magic carpet-ride through Persia - Part Three.
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Only Here for The Poets
The story of a magic carpet-ride through Persia - Part Four.
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The Iran - Tie Rack War
The story of a magic carpet-ride through Persia - Part Five.
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Razzmatazzed in Yaz’d
The story of a magic carpet-ride through Persia - Part Six.
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Just Deserts
The story of a magic carpet-ride through Persia - Part Seven.
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The Great Falafel Kerfuffle
The story of a magic carpet-ride through Persia - Part Eight.
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The Man in the Iran Mosque
The story of a magic carpet-ride through Persia - Part Nine.
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Tea with the Coppersmith
The story of a magic carpet-ride through Persia - Part Ten (with photographs).
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The Gaddafi Effect
The story of a magic carpet-ride through Persia - Part Eleven (with photographs, though they're the same photographs as in Part Ten, so you may have seen them before).
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Cherries and Dahlia Petals
The story of a magic carpet-ride through Persia - Part Twelve, the final part.
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The Day of the Drone - Gatwick Misery
Christmas Chaos Part One - The tale of a complicated and frustrating journey across Europe from east to west to enjoy the festive period with my family. Chris Rea said I have enough material here for him to be able to write a rock opera on the subject.
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The Day of the Drone - Luton to the Rescue
Christmas Chaos Part Two - The tale of a complicated and frustrating journey across Europe from east to west to enjoy the festive period with my family. Roy Wood and all the members of his band, Wizzard, said it’s a good job it’s not Christmas every day.
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