Abroad Magazine - Issue #21, May - August 2007
- Pulling a fast one The new high speed TGV lines have opened vast swathes of Eastern France and beyond, and will have airlines shaking in their boots.
- Meanwhile Back at the Ranch Muriel Bolger meets a few Gauchos out on the wild pampas plains of Argentina.
- California Dreaming Long time California Dreamer, Nollaig Ward hit the open roads of America’s Wild West and enjoyed a fun-filled holiday.
- Life Begins at 50 Hugh Oram suggests ways to incorporate the overseas antique purchase into your summer holidays (Much better than feeling like one, surely?!)…
- Me N My Hols.. Antoinette Young of Home and Abroad Travel reveals her most memorable holiday moments.
- Walking in New Orleans After enduring a long night of the soul in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the Big Easy has recovered the old voodoo, has turned that corner and is back into its funky old groove. John Moran reports from New Orleans.
- Banish the Blues in the Azores Pól Ó Conghaile flew to an archipelago in the middle of the Atlantic, hoping to fine azure skies and banish the bad weather blues.
- A City of Saints & Sinners? Catherine Murphy hopped aboard the new Aer Lingus direct flight to Santiago de Compostela and enjoyed some Galician gregariousness.
- A Mountain Retreat by the Sea Yvette Dolan set out for Alicante and arrived in Benidorm, where she discovered there’s more than meets the eye in ‘them there hills’…
- The French Connection & Exceedingly Good Grass Turtle Bunbury meanders along France’s Mediterranean coast from Marseilles to Cassis, and revises a few first impressions along the way.
- Lake Balaton – The ‘Hungarian Sea’ Adrian Phillips, author of The Bradt Travel Guide to Hungary takes a walk around the shores of Lake Balaton - Central Europe’s largest lake.
- Nepalese Perspectives Jas Kaminski reports from the stunning Chitwan National Park in Southern Nepal.
- In search of the Northern Lights Harry Johnstone went cruising and ended up exhilarated in the northern most city in the world.
- Get blown away by Tarifa Having lived in Tarifa for a year and a half, Natasha Smith is convinced that few seaside towns can match the beauty and diversity of this surfing paradise in Southern Spain.
- Living In A Box It's like something straight out of science fiction. It's the last hope of the drunk and overworked, and it's probably the tiniest place you'll ever sleep. Deirdre Ruane tries out a capsule hotel.
- Hanging Loose in Zanzibar Harry Johnstone travelled to Zanzibar during Ramadan and was seduced by its spices, scents and sepic quality.