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Lois Pryce @LoisPryce
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Lois Pryce@LoisPryce
2 Mar 2018
Paperback edition of Revolutionary Ride - now in Persian-tile blue. Out 8th March.
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My latest for @GuardianTravel theguardian.com/travel/2026/…

‘We are not like the rest of Andalucía’: the rugged charms of Almería, Spain’s desert city

While Málaga battles overtourism down the coast, this ‘forgotten’ working port city revels in its outsider status

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New Humanist
@NewHumanist
26 Oct 2025
Finger-pickin’ good! @LoisPryce on the joy and power of bluegrass newhumanist.org.uk/articles/…

Finger-pickin’ good

Country music has long shed its Bible-bashing image. Today, bluegrass is helping to heal America’s deep divides

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New Humanist
@NewHumanist
16 Oct 2025
✨New online: Country music has long shed its Bible-bashing image. Today, bluegrass is helping to heal America’s deep divides, writes journalist and banjo player @LoisPryce newhumanist.org.uk/articles/…

Finger-pickin’ good

Country music has long shed its Bible-bashing image. Today, bluegrass is helping to heal America’s deep divides

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Sold out! But watch this space for future courses.
Tom Parfitt@parfitt_tom
8 Sep 2025
Delighted that I’ll be co-tutoring a Narrative Non-Fiction residential writing course @ArvonFoundation from Nov 3 to 8 with the great @LoisPryce and @NooSaroWiwa. It’s sold out, but you can join the waiting list! arvon.org/writing-courses/co…
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Lois Pryce@LoisPryce
21 Aug 2025
A banjo pickin' girl can hope...
New Humanist
@NewHumanist
21 Aug 2025
Replying to @NewHumanist
Turning to our culture section, @_Durdana and @kamranyousuf_ meet the embattled hoteliers of beautiful Kashmir, @LoisPryce argues that a new era of bluegrass can unite America, and @FeldmanSally reviews @netflix’s Nonnas, exploring the magic of grandmas' cooking...
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Lois Pryce@LoisPryce
11 Jul 2025
On my new favourite mountains, for @GuardianTravel The Sierra de la Demanda in northern Spain - wild, empty and a little bit weird. Perfect for escaping the 21st century. theguardian.com/travel/2025/…

Discovering Spain’s Sierra de la Demanda: the land that social media forgot

While other parts of Spain struggle with the pressures of over-tourism, these wild, expansive and almost tourist-free mountains are a lungful of fresh air

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My latest for @GuardianTravel A magical walk along Spain's Cabo de Gata coast - skinny-dipping, mountain-scrambling, and dodging sanctimonious hippies. theguardian.com/travel/2025/…

A wild walk along Spain’s empty coast – where the desert meets the sea

Saved from tourist development by a ‘favourite daughter of Andalucía’, Cabo de Gata is a spectacular national park perfect for an adventure on foot

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Likewise, Benedict!
Benedict Allen
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7 Mar 2025
Informed, open to new challenges and always upbeat: just the sort of people who'd be the best of travelling companions! @AustinVINCE2 and @LoisPryce in good form at the @StanfordsTravel annual book awards this week.
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Great night out with my fellow judges at the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards on Weds and congratulations to the well-deserved winner, @noosarowiwa for her brilliant book, Black Ghosts.
𝐓𝐫𝐢𝐩Fiction 📚🧳 #travelbybook@TripFiction
6 Mar 2025
Lovely catching up with @LoisPryce yesterday @StanfordsTravel Check out her adventure and travel memoirs on the TF website - solo motorcycle trips through the Americas / Africa / Iran
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Lois Pryce@LoisPryce
20 Feb 2025
Friends, Persians, Londoners! 15/03/25- I'm speaking about my motorbike travels in Iran at this celebration of Nowruz - the Persian New Year. Come & find out why we should sack off our crappy January New Year and get with the far superior Persian version. lauderdalehouse.org.uk/two-j…

A Tale of Two Journeys

Join us for a talk on two journeys: Lois Pryce's recent journey across Iran and, more than 200 years before, Mirza Saleh Shirazi's journey from Iran to England. Author and travel writer, Lois Pryce...

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Lois Pryce@LoisPryce
15 Jan 2025
I'm teaching the Wild Writing Weekend again this year, with my fellow adventuring author friend, @AntsBK Come and join us in gorgeous mid-Wales for 2 days of writing workshops, book chat round the campfire, waterfalls swims and fabulous food. loispryce.com/teaching/writi…
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Lois Pryce@LoisPryce
14 Dec 2024
At the end of Dec the Guardian Travel section ask their writers to contribute their best discovery of the year. Mine is this groovy abandoned '60s hotel in central Spain. Check out the full list: theguardian.com/travel/2024/…
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Delighted to be judging the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards agaim this year. Collected my haul tonight at the shortlist announcement. Gonna be a good winter. 📚🌍
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Always the late adopter, I've started a Substack. It's called Adventures in Lo-Fi and it's gonna be fun. Please come and join me in my monthly Venn diagram of motorcycles, books, old boats, Iran and banjos. substack.com/@loispryce
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Lois Pryce@LoisPryce
18 Nov 2024
Talking two decades of adventures plus books and banjos on the ADVRider podcast. advrider.com/lois-pryce-iran…

Riding Through a Literal Minefield in Africa - Adventure Rider

Lois Pryce has traveled to many dangerous corners of the world alone and unsupported, on small bikes, from Iran to Africa to Argentina.

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Fred Gough@fjd_gough
11 Nov 2024
This raw but thoughtful conversation between @LoisPryce & @ThatIanMarchant is repeated on @BBCRadio4 at 11.30 this morning or available on @BBCSounds is worth a listen. My thoughts are with Ian this morning as he has an oncology appointment. #Acceptance bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001n8…

One to One - Acceptance: Lois Pryce and Ian Marchant - BBC Sounds

Lois Pryce talks to Ian Marchant about acceptance in the face of a cancer diagnosis.

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Spent the morning at the House of Commons with an inspiring bunch of free-spirited Iranians & @AzadiNetwork_uk commemorating 2 years since the Woman, Life, Freedom protests in Iran. The fight goes on ✊
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Guardian Books
@GuardianBooks
19 Sep 2024
Hilary Mantel was my mentor. Here are seven things she taught me about writing – and life theguardian.com/books/2024/s…

Hilary Mantel was my mentor. Here are seven things she taught me about writing – and life

In 2007, after my manuscript had been rejected for the 44th time, a colleague offered to introduce me to a published novelist. It turned out to be Mantel – and I was fortunate enough to soak up her...

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Lois Pryce@LoisPryce
12 Sep 2024
Rockin' double denim in a 9th century necropolis today.
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