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With apologies to Kerouac, I plan to drive the Pacific coast on the other side, Cairns to Sydney, this April, 2010, taking 3 to 4 weeks. Suggestions for sights to see, PR contacts, further commissions, wrinkles, all welcome. Keith Ward (also member Guild of Motoring Writers, London) This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it +44 1422 820244
 
Mary Novakovich

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Started out in journalism about 25 years ago, and have spent the past 11 years as a freelance. Most of my travel writing has been for the Independent, although I have written for the Daily Telegraph, New Statesman and the monthly francophone magazines (France, Living France, French Magazine), as well as The Traveller in France for Maison de la France. I have a thing for languages, as I don't like to visit somewhere and not know how to communicate. As a result I speak French,...
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"Mr Safi Ullah was a tall thin man in white beard and white punjabi. He gave me tea and a copy of the headmaster’s report from 1948. As I left I pressed him to accept a 1000 taka note – a little less than £9. “For books,” I insisted. He took it under protest. “For books,” he agreed. I reflected afterwards that I had given him enough to keep a 10-year-old in school for a year." 

© Peter Hughes, Bangladesh, Condé Nast Traveller, 2008

 

 

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