In 2021, a budding travel writer called Anna Richards submitted a couple of stories to Intrepid Times; she wrote about penguins in Chile, and as well as a frightening mugging. …
Despite fears of social unrest, a traveler takes a vacation to Buenos Aires, Argentina, after getting the green light from the United Nations, only to find herself surrounded by violent …
Writer’s block is the demon writers point to as the reason they can’t get words on a page. But what if writer’s block doesn’t actually exist? What if the reason …
A traveller drags her Mini up and down the steep mountain roads of Andorra in search of myths and legends hiding in the Pyrenean forests, passing ancient churches and shepherd …
A small village in Greater Poland is home to two horses, one store, and an old man who sits in front of it with a beer close at hand, ready …
Every day when submissions are open, dozens of travel stories or pitches land in the Intrepid Times inbox. While the quality of course varies, most of these submissions are from …
A solo traveller in Paris, France, is terrified when a lonely stranger tries to force his way into her apartment, prompting a haunting reflection on vulnerability and identity in faraway …
Paul Theroux called Thomas Swick ‘the ideal travel writer,’ but he’s the first to admit he hasn’t always been the ideal traveler. He moved to Poland in the late 1970s …
A traveller wanders through Longyearbyen, a coal-mining town in Norway’s Svalbard archipelago, where she gets acquainted with 24-hour darkness, polar bear warnings, and abandoned (potentially) haunted mines, while learning how …
