Nathan James Thomas

Covid-19 Travel Experiences

December 18, 2020

This (Strange!) Year in Travel Writing — 2020 in Review

Cover photo: Intrepid Times Editor Nathan James Thomas on a rooftop in Jaipur, India, December 2019 - Just Before it All Began! This was the year when everything stopped. And…

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Europe Intrepid Times Podcasts

September 24, 2020

Chernobyl: A Stalkers’ Guide – Interview with Darmon Richter

Writer and photographer Darmon Richter has been a friend of Intrepid Times since we first interviewed him back in 2016. With the release of his stunning new book, Chernobyl: A…

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Covid-19 Travel Experiences

August 31, 2020

Learning How to Travel Again

After a decade on the road, a traveler learns to rediscover the fear and exhilaration of his first ever solo journeys. Just over ten years ago. Sitting in the living…

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India

January 18, 2020

Assault on the Senses

A writer attempts to describe the intensity of India while avoiding the ultimate cliché. When the journalist Christopher Hitchens went to Prague during the final years of communism, he made…

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Europe

December 5, 2019

Tirana from all Angles

In the streets of Albania, a traveler finds evidence of a country trying to distance itself from its political past. Editor's note: This article was written before the world's deadliest…

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Intrepid Times Podcasts

September 11, 2019

On Wanderlust and Whitman: Interview with Photojournalist B.A. Van Sise

On any given day, you may find B.A. Van Sise teaching a photography course in Mongolia, testing vintage film in Kosovo, touring with the Cuban National Circus, or riding shotgun…

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Australasia Stories from the past

March 18, 2019

Twenty Thousand Kilometers of Nowhere

It happened again. An old man this time. Long white hair melting into his beard. Eyes glazed over. The plump woman shouted “Oi! You gotta pay for that!” She ran…

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Europe

February 26, 2019

Madrid – Mysteries Overlooked

Madrid is a languid rush. As in all big cities, people look ahead and walk with purpose. Yet they move slowly. Pedestrians habitually pause in the middle of the street,…

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Europe

October 16, 2018

Some Corner of a Foreign Field

The Story of Five New Zealand POW’s Buried in Poznan, Poland A New Zealand expat in Poznan discovers the story of five countrymen buried far from home. First published in…

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Europe Travel journal

August 24, 2018

In Search of My Family’s Jewish History in Lublin, Poland

Walking across the border from Slovakia into Poland felt like crossing into Narnia. The bridge that connects the two countries was covered in snow, surrounded by white mountains and frost…

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Nathan James Thomas

This (Strange!) Year in Travel Writing — 2020 in Review

Chernobyl: A Stalkers’ Guide – Interview with Darmon Richter

Learning How to Travel Again

Assault on the Senses

Tirana from all Angles

On Wanderlust and Whitman: Interview with Photojournalist B.A. Van Sise

Twenty Thousand Kilometers of Nowhere

Madrid – Mysteries Overlooked

Some Corner of a Foreign Field

In Search of My Family’s Jewish History in Lublin, Poland

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