From peril to natural paradise: inside Albania’s notorious gulag

Elizabeth Gowing takes a look inside on of Albania’s most powerful sites of memory.

New Travel Writer of the Year – what are the judges looking for?

The best writers grab your attention so subtly that you are beguiled without being aware of it.

Unlikely Positions (in Unlikely Places)

Elizabeth Gowing is not a likely yogini. She is too fond of cake and to-do lists, and sometimes falls over on her mat. Yoga has taken Elizabeth Gowing on journeys both inside and out. In Unlikely Positions (in Unlikely Places), she follows yoga around Britain – from the village hall where a quivering triangle pose…

Introduction: Where YouTube Can’t Take You

“I am not a likely yogini: I am too fond of cake and to-do lists. And the start of my yoga journey was a dead end – not just the numbed toes at the ends of my pins-and-needles legs as I cramped my limbs into an unfamiliar half-lotus. There was a sense of futility.” Discover…