Archive for 'Life as a Travel Writer'

God-Awful Guides

Posted on 30. Sep, 2008 by Kerry Banks.

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As we lurched through the chaotic traffic of downtown Kuala Lumpur, I realized with a sinking sensation that Shirley, my Chinese driver, had only a passing familiarity with the automobile. She savagely grinded the gears of her company’s Mercedes into submission and weaved between lanes like a drunken sailor, leaving a chorous of angry horns [...]

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Travelling on Someone Else’s Ticket

Posted on 07. Feb, 2008 by Kerry Banks.

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I landed my first travel writing gig purely by accident. This was many years ago when a lot of things in my life were happening by accident. A writer friend of mine had been invited to participate in a fam trip to Hong Kong and Thailand, two destinations that I, as an impoverished freelancer, had [...]

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