Snippet of the Week - British Guild of Travel Writers

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Snippet of the Week

This is an archive of Snippets which have been published on the front page.

The Snippets slot is available to BGTW members who want to highlight a travel destination or experience that they haven't been able to include in a commissioned work or haven't found a suitable platform for.

Little Langdale, Cumbria, by Bill Birkett

"My Dead Sea stroll to the spa began unpromisingly. An old Jordan hand chided me for breaking every social taboo in the land: wet hair (suggestive of steamy sex, not a good look in Ramadan, when romps are banned till sunset); exposed nape of the neck (erotic provocation); bare knees (erogenous zone and poor sartorial sense); looking men in the eye (looser morals than Salome, that local minx). But the irrepressible staff smiled serenely at my crimes, while possibly consigning me to Sodom, just down the track in Biblical terms."

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