Travel
Wild Swimming in the South of France
Amy Watt is a member of our Abeona Adventure Club. She left a fast paced job in the big city and headed for a small village in the South of France with her partner, Jim. We like the sound of that a lot. She writes a really beautiful blog about travelling and yoga and...
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Wild horses are going to drag me away
This piece is an amalgamation of a couple of pieces I wrote for our Amtrak zine which you can buy from us here or from Pioneer’s Press here (Pioneer’s press should be cheaper shipping than us if you are in the USA) Marfa’s a tiny city in far West...
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An Ode To…Disconnecting
As I write this, I am balancing on a rock at the edge of a Montana forest. It’s around 2pm. The sun is strong here at this time of day. To avoid it, I have nestled into a formation of rocks which faces a large valley of trees, most of which are perished and dry...
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The magic of New Orleans
Excerpt from ‘Amtrak: Adventures through the South’ available from Pioneers...
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moving to California with two boys and a big bag of red beans
In the summer of 2015 Sophie and I traveled across the southern states of America by Amtrak train, and in the spring of this year we wrote a zine about all the adventures we had. Pioneers Press are now stocking that zine, if you want to get a copy go here A version of...
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Budapest: Ink, Paper, Coffee
‘It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a cafe au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the...
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What Happens in Vegas, Ends up in a Zine
What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. That’s how the saying goes. Unless you’re unlucky enough to catch something, in which case what happens in Vegas ends up with a visit to the STD clinic. Probably wouldn’t look as good in an advert though, would it? Thankfully,...
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Out Of The City
I am often overwhelmed by living in a city. I spend a good portion of time daydreaming about being someplace else; of disappearing into remote little villages or of driving down endlessly empty Texan roads. As soon as I am weakened by claustrophobia, I begin to obsess...
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A Night In Oxford Mississippi
2:17am and I’m walking through torrential rain down a deserted Mississippi road. There’s no point running for cover – I’m already soaked to the skin. I don’t know where I’m going to stay tonight but am in high-spirits having extracted myself from a stranger’s caravan...
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A Brief Note on Travelling
A brief note on travelling, featured in ‘My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys…Townes Van Zandt...
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Eating with Notorious B.I.G. pt 3
My original plan was that I would somehow get hold of Puff Daddy, I would grill him about his and Biggie’s favourite old haunts in Brooklyn and the two of us would go on some kind of crazy restaurant crawl, at the end of which we would be best friends. Puffy...
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Eating with Notorious B.I.G. pt 2
Illustrations by Chris Harward. Photos by Sarah Crowder. Sophie and I have been “going back to Cali” at least once a year every year for the last three years now. We drive around in rented cars (I say “we” but it is always Sophie driving since...
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