January 12, 2022
Nightfall in Tbilisi
As curfew approaches in Tbilisi, Georgia, a traveler makes a mad dash for home to avoid severe penalties. We were four travelers from New Zealand,…
July 7, 2021
Unmasked on the Black Sea
As Georgia finally lifts its nighttime curfew, a traveler attempts to make sense of the excesses and contradictions of its coastal bohemia, Batumi. Batumi —…
May 18, 2021
A Death in the Building
As the death of a tenant sparks a sullen commotion in his apartment building, a traveler wanders around the streets and alleyways of Tbilisi, Georgia's…
April 27, 2021
[AUDIO] Travel Writing, One Year On
He told me very clearly: "Give up. Without travel, there can be no more travel writing. And no one wants to read about trips that…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
