I recently used to run a relatively successful travel blog under the catchy alias of The Reluctant Backpacker. Depsite the site enjoying some decent success, with over 70,000 hits per month at its peak, I didn't have the inclination nor time to do anything serious with it. In the end I took it down. But before I took the site down, I decided to salvage some of its posts and posted them on my SubStack channel, mostly the ones addressing the destinations I've visited that now form the evocative locations so prevalent in my fictional writing. Here's a small selection of those travel guides and blogs...