Deborah O’Donoghue is a reporter at Travel Tomorrow. This British-Irish writer lived in the UK and France before moving to Belgium. She has travelled all over the world and worked in car body repairs, in the best fish ‘n’ chip shop in Brighton, and been a gopher in a comedy club, as well as a teacher. She’s a past winner of the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association Short Story Prize. Her début novel, Sea of Bones, was published by Legend Press in 2019 and comes out in Germany in 2021. You can follow Deborah on X and Instagram.
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In a world where every corner has been mapped and ‘hidden gems’ are rare, Mangystau’s beauty lies in its stark simplicity – an untouched expanse of untamed landscapes, […]
On my journey to discover the Almaty Region, I met a Swiss family during an unexpected stopover in Istanbul. They were returning home to Kyrgyzstan, but their faces lit […]
Interest in so-called “dark tourism” has been around for a while, long enough for commentators to debate whether visits to historic memorials, such as Germany’s concentration […]
In the last couple of years, astrology has been making a comeback. Its modern resurgence is linked to a combination of factors such as growing wellness […]
Uzbekistan might not be one of the world’s most visited sports destinations; nonetheless, it has a lot of potential. Given that most of the country consists […]
The fall walking season is upon us, bringing a riot of gold and scarlet to forest canopies, crisp leaves, and mushrooms underfoot. Among the best northern […]
The Shirvanshahs were the rulers of the Shirvan State, or Shirvan Khanate, a historical region in the eastern Caucasus that occupied about 30% of the territory […]
Every year, students starting their programmes in Maastricht face the same stress: scrambling to find accommodation, furnishing their new rooms, figuring out where to buy food, […]
When I said I’d be spending a night in Trollhättan, a former industrial city at the drainpipe end of Vänern, Sweden’s largest lake, people just looked […]
Guinea-Bissau is that West African country, between Senegal and Guinea, which few people know, even fewer people are curious to meet and which leaves those who […]