RUTH MILLINGTON

AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR & TRAVEL WRITER, PODCASTER, ADVENTURER, MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER

THANK YOU!

A big THANK YOU to everyone who has sent me your stories for my EXTREME HOLIDAYS PODCAST. Wow! There are some cracking tales out there and I can’t wait to get recording! Talking of which, look what I’ve just received in the post. I LOVE these AKG K92 headphones to go along with my mini Rode microphone!

Keep sending me your stories. It can be anything from something that has happened to you on a day trip to a trip of a lifetime. Have you a love story or break up to tell, travelled with a disability, or anything which took you out of your comfort zone even for the slightest second? I love inspiring stories too, and who doesn’t enjoy tales about encounters with animals and people.

Yours,

Ruthie x

P.s Don’t forget to like, share and subscribe to my blog, and to follow me on social media!

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TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHY: TIMES SQUARE, NEW YORK

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Photography is part and parcel of being a travel writer. It’s such a useful tool to be able to capture the moment, just like words can.

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CHINA 2001: BUSES, BREASTS AND LǍOWÀI

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What a difference twenty years makes.

I took this photograph whilst on a bus somewhere between Beijing and Xi’an in 2001. I can’t remember the exact place to be honest as I had been distracted that morning by a chicken sitting on my lap.  It was well behaved despite being scrawny and eyeing up my dusty hair for a good pecking. Behind me, a woman retched onto the floor; a stream of phlegm meandered past my feet. The road was full of tight bends and the bus driver had a death wish to career as fast as he could around them. On the most severest, the passenger entrance door would fling open and a plume of dirt and dust would blast into the bus.

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EXTREME HOLIDAYS PODCAST

Have you got an unusual story to tell?

Have you been in an extreme situation or somewhere different on your holidays or travels?

Would you like to be a guest on my EXTREME HOLIDAYS PODCAST?

No matter how big or small, funny or sad, everyone everywhere has a story to tell. Did you get lost, lose a child, have an accident or an interesting interaction with the locals? Have you been stranded due to Covid?  I’m not just looking at the physical aspects of the story but wanting to know how it affected you and how you reacted. Would you do things differently? This is really the story about YOU and the effect it had.

If so, then I’d love to hear from you!

Get in touch HERE or follow and message me on Twitter. I can’t wait to hear from you!

P.s Don’t forget to like, share and subscribe to my blog, and to follow me on social media!

LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT: NEPAL

I first set eyes on Nepal when I was a little girl.  My father kept an atlas in my bedroom.  It was a huge book, half my size.  I would spend hours looking through the maps and data, struggling to turn the pages.  And I didn’t understand much about what was written, but it fascinated me that so much jargon could be squashed into such tiny spaces on each page.

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WELCOME TO MY NEW WEBSITE!

As a writer and a passionate adventure world traveller, I have been inundated over the years with requests to share my fascinating travel tales so I’ve decided to set up my own website and blog.

I’ll be sharing with you my journeys as both an explorer and writer as well as book news and other related matters.

I’m also the host of the EXTREME HOLIDAYS PODCAST which will be launching later this summer. Check it out HERE.  IF YOU HAVE A STORY TO TELL, I WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!   

And, finally, don’t forget to like, share and subscribe to my blog, and to follow me on social media!

Yours,

Ruthie x

© Ruth Millington