TRENDING STORIES & ARTICLES: POP CULTURE TRAVEL
Roald Dahl’s World Travels and Their Influence on His Writing
Today I’d like to highlight my very favorite writer: Roald Dahl. I don’t know how many times I’ve read The Witches or Matilda or even his short stories (Skin!), but judging from my stack of yellowed books with the covers falling off, it’s quite a lot. Let’s take a look at places Dahl featured in his works, and how they followed his own travels!
BY SARAH STONE
TRENDING STORIES & ARTICLES: POP CULTURE TRAVEL
Roald Dahl’s World Travels and Their Influence on His Writing
Today I’d like to highlight my very favorite writer: Roald Dahl. I don’t know how many times I’ve read The Witches or Matilda or even his short stories (Skin!), but judging from my stack of yellowed books with the covers falling off, it’s quite a lot. Let’s take a look at places Dahl featured in his works, and how they followed his own travels!
BY SARAH STONE
Parts Unknown – Anthony Bourdain’s 10 Best Episodes & Lessons on Travel
Anthony Bourdain didn’t simply host a food travel show. He took viewers to new worlds. In all his curiosity, coolness, and righteousness, he taught us that we can find beauty in every corner of the world. During Parts Unknown, food offered much more than delicious tastes and good times. All those epic meals served as the motif for us to know the unknown. In this sense, Parts Unknown showed us how to travel and understand others.
BY NICK CALLOS
Flat Stanley: Inspiring Travel Since 1964
Originally published in 1964, Flat Stanley describes the adventure of a young boy who wakes up crushed by a bulletin board in his sleep. No need to worry though, because he’s perfectly fine and functioning. He’s just one-dimensional. He slides beneath doors. He solves crimes. He hides in paintings. He assimilates to life as a paper-thin human. There’s an entire series of his adventures, and in one of them, he realizes that he could be mailed to friends in California without spending a dime on an airplane ticket. He’s basically living the dream.
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