TOAST Magazine

Travel

Travelling off the beaten path, exploring new perspectives. Journeying closer to home or further afield with a slow, thoughtful outlook.
The Ochre Trail

I visited Provence, for the first time, in April. My boyfriend and I stayed in

11 years ago
THE LAST MAIL SHIP

Travel authorand biographer Sara Wheeler boards one of the last working mail

11 years ago
Life In Hay-On-Wye

In the lead up to Hay-on-Wye's annual literary festival we spoke to travel

11 years ago
NUMINOUS

This is a place of not knowing and self-forgetting where life is inescapable

11 years ago
The Marble Palace | Calcutta

Amidst thebusy streetsof Calcutta the traveller and writer, Rohini Wahi,

11 years ago
ABANDONED SPACES

There is something deeply fascinating yet unnerving about stepping into an

11 years ago
HAY MADE / BY HORATIO CLARE

Today is the start of Hay Festival, bringing together great writers and

12 years ago
Everyday Epiphanies - Umbra Summus

I remember the strange day we moved into the new house. It was like walking

12 years ago
SPIRIT OF PLACE / HASTINGS

It was lovely waking up in the Hastings B'n'B for my girlfriend's birthday, in

12 years ago
INTERVIEW - ARCHITECT DIMITRIS ZOGRAPHOS

Symi has been designated a national monument for its exceptional architecture.

12 years ago
RECALLING THE MONASTERIES

Over one hundred monasteries on a small island. In our ten or so days there

12 years ago
GUIDE TO SYMI, GREECE

Sailing into Symi's amphitheatrical harbour is like drifting into a pastel

12 years ago
Spirit of Place / The Ghosts of Old Holborn

Michael Smith Last Friday I found myself in a part of London that may well

12 years ago
Art of Place / Alice Myers Borderlands

Catrina Davies I met Alice Myers in Scotland on a day when nature was getting

12 years ago
TALTSY MUSEUM

Sara Wheeler An oval portrait of Tsar Alexander III hung uncertainly on one of

12 years ago
SPIRIT OF PLACE / EAST CLIFF, WHITBY

Michael Smith We'd gone to Whitby on the wrong day. The Sunday crowds were

12 years ago
ART OF PLACE / DOMINIC CLARE'S SNOWDONIA

The first piece in a new series by Catrina Davies exploring the relationship

12 years ago
SPIRIT OF PLACE / ARMORICAN BEAUTY

Michael Smith At the end of the summer I spent a week at my brother-in-law's

12 years ago
BLACK COUNTRY

At last night's Forward Prize 2014, poet Liz Berry won the Felix Dennis Prize

12 years ago
AUGUST TOAST / MOSEL WITH DINOSAURS

Nat Lucas The building of One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, in 1991 toppled the

12 years ago
ALPINE FLOWERS

Kate O'Brien Last month I spent some time sleeping next to Mont Blanc in a

12 years ago
SPIRIT OF PLACE / PORT ELIOT

Michael Smith As we drove over the water, above Isambard Kingdom Brunel's

13 years ago
SPIRIT OF PLACE / KETTLE'S YARD

Michael Smith I was happily lost in Cambridge, enchanted by its gothic

13 years ago
SPIRIT OF PLACE / DUNGENESS

In his new column Michael Smith responds to the essence of a place Escaping

13 years ago