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Slow, slow wanders the train, past minarets and mosques, out onto the plains where women dressed in black work in fields that are as neat as a grave on the day of its digging. 'Spring, Storks and Trains: a Visit to Brcko' (hidden europe 20) On good days, Sylt is a lithesome figure that dances on the edge of the North Sea. A sort of nymph that guards access to Jutland behind. On dull days, Sylt just lies sullen, shrouded in charcoal cloud, and the lazy waves leave their murky flotsam on the beach 'Lost at Sea: a Frisian Tale' (hidden europe 19) The tides in the Mawddach estuary never come too early. Nor too late. The rain never beats too hard on the road to Abergwesyn. In the patter of the rain there are voices. Voices of the drovers who for generations trod these trails urging their sheep to market. 'The Road to Abergwesyn' (hidden europe 17) |
Let me try and give you a flavour of what I have been up to over the past year. Last year, 2008, my total published output was about 150,000 words. The preceding year was pretty similar. Different words, of couse. But about the same number. Most of that text was published in magazines, but a small amount was purposely written for online publication.
All those words. You’ll find lots of them in hidden europe magazine. And at various times during 2008, some of those words have been published in E!Sharp, The Lady, My Weekly, CityGuide, Zazpi Ka, Zazpi Haizetara, and more besides. Here is a selection.
examines what happens when travellers are shipwrecked in Malta – from St Paul to modern migrants from Africa. The article was first published in hidden europe 21, July 2008. You can read the basic text online here.
looks at multiculturalism and linguistic diversity in the Vojvodina area of northern Serbia published in E!Sharp: People, Power, Process in Europe, May-June 2008
is an evocation of Europe’s lost synagogues published in E!Sharp: People, Power, Process in Europe, Sept – Oct 2008
explores the renaissance of the Thames as a low carbon artery through the heart of London published in E!Sharp: People, Power, Process in Europe, Nov – Dec 2008
For examples of my writing for hidden europe e-news, just click here. There you will find over 120 back issues of the regular newsletter published by the magazine. If you like what you find there, you can browse the table of contents of back issues of the magazine here, take out a sub or buy back issues or even purchase selected individual articles that have been published by hidden europe.
This text by Nicky Gardner appears on the website of the British Guild of Travel Writers (www.bgtw.org). Nicky is editor of hidden europe magazine. Find out more at www.hiddeneurope.co.uk.