Megan Eaves-Egenes
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Travel journalist. Editor @idadarksky . ✍️ a book on darkness. Agent: Jack Fogg | More active on Threads and Insta, same username.
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When publications don't allow journalists to go on press trips but remain mystified as to why they can't find more writers from underrepresented backgrounds. Tell me, what types of writers can afford to go on trips and eat their own expenses for an article that pays $400?
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Peaceful anti-racist community protest underway now at Lewisham Clocktower. ❤️❤️❤️
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Currently standing in Lewisham centre now & all is fine. The posts by
@MPSLewisham
only stirred up more confusion. Here's some pics & video. Shopping centre open as usual. The far right would be stupider than they seem to come to Lewisham tbh. We're about community here. ❤️
@megoizzy
@MPSLewisham
There is a planned anti racism and anti Islamophobia gathering at the clock tower at 7pm. Media including News Shopper have made out like the far right are going to be rioting here. I've just come from Lewisham centre and it's quiet.
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Is freelance journalism the only service industry in which the client sets the rates they pay rather than the service provider? Imagine someone calling a plumber and saying "Hey I'd like you to come fix this busted pipe. I can offer £75, or £100 if you provide replacement parts."
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One for
@WeWantPlates
? Except I do not want a plate. I want this
#Lego
bread basket. (at COBO House)
#LPinHK
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The insufferable 40-something spinsterhood of having no kids, no man, no plans. This, ladies, is what we were warned about.
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I would say that the thing I did today was go for a walk around Lewisham’s three fields but actually the main thing that happened was I met THIS CAT LOOK AT HER OMG
@thecatreviewer
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You guys my aunt went to the Dublin Storehouse and got a certificate for pouring a 'perfect pint of Guinness' for this nonsense LOOK AT THIS
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I am deeply, deeply proud that Uzbekistan is No 2 on
@lonelyplanet
's list of the best places in Asia to visit this year. I went to this amazing country last year and was completely overcome by its history, warmth and isolation. Visit, if you can.
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Pedro Pascal as
@IDADarkSky
International Dark Sky Places, a 🧵.
City of Rocks National Reserve, Idaho, US
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CUTE: China’s rarest bunny photographed after 2 decades in hiding |
@lonelyplanet
travel news
http://t.co/k0dEt4x4iE
http://t.co/b6mauavem7
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LOVE this: Google Street View maps uncharted
#Mongolia
using backpacks & horse-drawn sleds
http://t.co/uvhnWf1u8Q
http://t.co/TcEo6Up20v
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Heart attack recovery milestone: today I climbed One Tree Hill – steep slopes and 6 flights of stairs, 53m gain. Considering I could not walk down the street when I came home from the hospital 3 weeks ago, I feel very good. 🫀❤️🩹🚶♀️💪
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Three days off the grid in wildly rural Kyrgyzstan. Yurts, horses, snow, the best night sky of my life, and prettiest lake (Köl-Suu).
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I am over the moon (🌚) to be coming on as Editor of
@IDADarkSky
's beautiful magazine, Nightscape. We plan to grow it into the world's premier dark skies magazine, celebrating the heritage of the night sky & bringing the issue of light pollution to worldwide audiences. ✨🌌
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Got amazing news that I've been awarded an
@Soc_of_Authors
Foundation Grant of £3000 for my non-fict travel memoir on darkness & the night sky currently in progress. So grateful to the Society of Authors for investing in my work based on the excerpt that I submitted🫶
#SoAGrants
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I'll be tweeting from Gansu, China this month. If you're interested in dunes, Buddhism, Silk Road, follow
#LPinChina
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Wanderlust for the day: Huanglong Nat. Park in
#Sichuan
. Terraced turquoise hot springs set in pristine valley.
http://t.co/FIeFVzqpIo
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One of the funnest parts of my job
@lonelyplanet
is at the start of a China update year. Getting all the writer pitches in, filling in this map with names and making the puzzle pieces of who will research where fit together. 🗺🇨🇳🛫🚅📝📚
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My favourite day in
@lonelyplanet
land: when the new
#China
guide lands on my desk, incl my chapter on Gansu.
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Just in: preview copy of the new
@lonelyplanet
guidebook to Tibet, hitting bookshops on 1 May. Thrilled beyond measure to have a preface by the
@DalaiLama
. Some projects are more emotional than others, and researching Tsang for this update was life-changing for me.
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Honoured to have worked with Ukrainian photographer & night-sky lover
@PashaXVI
+
@IDADarkSky
to publish Pavlo's story & photos of the night in war-torn Kharkiv during bombing blackouts. With the lights off, the stars shine over ruins of war. Astonishing.
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So cool: my dad
@jegenes
' book, Man and Horse, is in the Barbie film! Margot Robbie gave it to Ryan Gosling as a joke bc of the title; RG read it & loved it. He has said he would like to make it into a film! It's the true story of Dad & Gizmo the Horse's 1974 ride across the US
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The newly-reopened China & South Asia Gallery
@britishmuseum
is well worth a couple of hours. Staggering works from India, Tibet, Silk Road, China.
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I hope authors writing for Lonely Planet's T&R/coffee table books will join me in not accepting .25p per word-the same rate they've offered since 2016 & before. The fees need to go up –if you're writing for those books, pls advocate!
@lonelyplanet
pay your writers a living wage!
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@thecatreviewer
Torty Hadrian's Wall bunkhouse minx. Demanding, vocal & fickle. Minus pts for bites, plus points for great eye contact 11/10
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Life in
@lonelyplanet
’s Beijing office: like home but with Guangxi spicy rice noodles for lunch. #孤独星球
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In 2020, I'm starting my first non-guidebook: a meditative travelogue on stargazing, light pollution, the dark & human nature. I'm looking for residencies/hosts/opportunities to spend time in dark places, dark-sky parks, astronomy sites, anyplace connected to darkness/the stars✨
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Here's a helpful diagram showing the hand gestures for numbers used in
#China
http://t.co/rrzCto76NN
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Very pleased to be sending to bed my first edition of Visit Uzbekistan magazine as Editor. Still finding my feet and learning to work across time zones and Zoom, but grateful for fab colleagues in Tashkent & the UK who have been very supportive! Issue 26 is themed around Bukhara
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Who had heart attack on the 2023 bingo card? I'm so fortunate to have listened to my body & have access to the NHS esp the Kings cardiology team who gave me an emergency stent. Looks good for full recovery bc of them. Will spare you pics of my big, bragworthy bruise-wound. ❤️🩹
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Excitement on my desk today:
@lonelyplanet
’s brand new Mongolia guide, which now features
@what3words
addresses to help travellers more easily find their way around this stunning country.
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A little slice of Samarkand in Tbilisi: Timurid-style architecture (a more modern rendition) on the Orbeliani Baths.
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Brightening timelines: the sun is shining and I'm out in it.
A week ago today I was rushing to A&E with burning chest pains for an emergency angioplasty. Now I am walking in the last of the January sun. Thank you science, thank you
@NHSuk
, thank you friends who've rallied.❤️🩹☀️🫀
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Another beautiful
@lonelyplanet
book I feel deeply grateful to have worked on. And a whole carriageload of new bucket list trips within its pages! 🚂🚅
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I'm chuffed beyond belief to have signed with a literary agent – the fantastic
@foggberg
– to finish this book, which was put on hold by a little matter of world events. I'm now planning travel to some amazing dark places – if you'd like to host me, get in touch. 🌍🌌
In 2020, I'm starting my first non-guidebook: a meditative travelogue on stargazing, light pollution, the dark & human nature. I'm looking for residencies/hosts/opportunities to spend time in dark places, dark-sky parks, astronomy sites, anyplace connected to darkness/the stars✨
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This place is as incredible as it looks. No photos allowed when I was there, and I just stood agog looking up at these scriptures.
The Library of the Sakya Monastery, southern Tibet, built in 13thCE, one of the largest collection of Tibetan and Indic manuscripts and block-printed books, over 44,000 texts, shelves reach height of 10 meters. Cataloguing began in 2005...
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The Japanese 'hanami' means 'cherry-blossom viewing'; a similar word for autumn: 'momijigari' or 'red-leaf hunting'.
http://t.co/nkzpPjlZTL
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Exciting! Advance copy of
@lonelyplanet
’s 7th ed
#CentralAsia
guidebook just landed on my desk. A must for all
#SilkRoad
explorers. Stellar work by writers
@slioy
@ACKaminski
@bradley_mayhew
. On sale 1 June!
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Registan Square in Samarkand, probably the only place I’ve ever been that deserves the adjective ‘jaw-dropping’, for my mouth was once again agape rounding the corner into it. Tried for a selfie but this is not the place to insert one’s own face, really.
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I did not steal this cat. However I may have let it in to our flat and also bribed it with gone-off salami.
@thecatreviewer
10/10
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PRs still out here asking if your piece ran in the print edition or "just" online. Well Barb would you rather 200,000 views or 9 million? I can't.
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To remind you what my ends are about...THIS is Lewisham ❤️❤️❤️❤️
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For my efforts, I was privileged to see Tianti Shan's 1600-yr-old big buddha & amazing valley. 🙏
#LPinChina
#gansu
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@thecatreviewer
We shared a midnight tryst last eve, then she caught me on my way home this afternoon. 11/10 for minxy cat-call & soft purr
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One of the major trends
@lonelyplanet
has identified for 2019 is dark skies travel, or astrotourism. Here are my thoughts on why and where to go in search of the stars. Pic of me stargazing in our No 5
#BestinTravel
country, Kyrgyzstan, by
@slioy
. ✨💫🌖
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Exploring Almaty, blissfully solo today. It is such a treeful city. And Zenkov's Cathedral is looking amazing after a major restoration that finished in 2019.
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@thecatreviewer
Fussed this princess on my way to work. 15/10 for jumping thru cobweb to purr me on
#InternationalCatDay
😻
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Incredible pic of Xinye Village in
#Zhejiang
,
#China
snapped by
@lonelyplanet
author Damian Harper.
#lp
http://t.co/VVL443hTZC
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Can't believe I am shooting the Milky Way like this with an iPhone. Astrophotographers, you simply must come to Uzbekistan. 🌌📷
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A tour of
#Astana
's wacky & wonderful architecture
http://t.co/tVi2ln3kPr
#kazakhstan
> my latest for
@lonelyplanet
http://t.co/PWvwYRQJi6
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500 'Star Wars' Stormtroopers marched on the Great Wall last night.
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Inspired by
@edentravels
, 17 seconds of somewhen else.
Evening call to prayer over the Golden Horn, December 24, 2018. As you can see, the most special sunset.
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Great interview on Tibetans through the lens. I saw Nyema Droma's exhibition at the Pitt Rivers Museum (images shown below) – very poignant juxtapositioning of Tibetans wearing their modern clothes and traditional dress. Really upends the colonial gaze.
Foreign photographers have shaped the Western images of Tibet. Now Tibetans are taking control of the camera.
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I am absolutely thrilled to say I've written a guide to the world's best places for dark skies and stargazing in
@timeout
's travel section, which has just published! 🌌🔭 Big thanks to
@graceveronica__
for giving me this starry assignment. 🤩
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Stuff I'd like to ban from travel writing, today's edition:
*vibrant
*perfectly formed
*impressive
*cobbled anything
*atmospheric
*vibrant again
*rub shoulders with
*effortlessly
*eclectic menu
*brainchild of
*tucked away
*lively bars
*hop/jump in a taxi
*good selection of wines
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The Great Wall's most spectacular wild hikes
http://t.co/q9M6M2Ya91
@lonelyplanet
#lp
#travel
#china
http://t.co/c8pVEnaTPo
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I went to Tibet last year and was deeply changed by it. Very proud of this video piece about my journey to the top of the world for
@lonelyplanet
.
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Lonely Planet has named Central Asia the top region to visit in 2020. I've been every year for the past 4 years – it's sublime, and needs visitors. Here are some pics from Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan & Tajikistan to fuel Tues wanderlust!
#bestintravel
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It upsets me when people use war language for others' health issues. Heart disease is not something you can fight. Cancer is not a battle. This language implies the person could overcome a health issue only if they battle hard enough & those who don't didn't try. It's fucked up.
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So very happy to say I wrote a guide to Uzbekistan for
@timestravel
and it is out now! When to go, what to do, and why you'll love it.
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The New Zealand dark sky community is absolutely wonderful. I have been welcomed with huge "Kia Oras" by people across the country to come and see how & why NZ is working to become a dark sky nation. Look out for it in the next issue of
@IDADarkSky
Nightscape magazine. 🇳🇿🌌
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Harry Potter Anniversary is good fun. I'll stand corrected if every woman my age didn't fall in love with the books in their 20s purely for Sirius Black and still love Prisoner of Azkaban best of the films because Gary Oldman is the most sexy-ugly actor of all time.
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View from the roof bar of Dunhuang Silk Road Hotel is incredibly hard to top. Local ice wine is a bonus.
#lpinchina
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Chill-out China:
@dorawhit
explores tropical island adventures on
#Hainan
http://t.co/EZj5hAh6kH
@lonelyplanet
#china
http://t.co/rq0DcAmDYY
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Ace morning
@MuseeOrsay
. A must for anyone who loves beautiful things and beautiful buildings. And train stations.
http://t.co/kdxSRQBwkh
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Annual ice and snow festival opens in Harbin |
@lonelyplanet
travel news
http://t.co/6pYEjfm9zm
http://t.co/klN4z378Li
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Just arrived on my desk! New editions of
@lonelyplanet
Hong Kong and Taiwan. Always a thrill!
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Suzhou has a lot of canals and Marco Polo came here and there is some suggestion that spaghetti might be a daughter of 炒面 and so maybe Venice is really the Suzhou of the West. Maybe not. The canals are pretty sublime in springtime, either way.
#LPinChina
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Gaia at the Painted Hall. Empty, free. The most astonishing room in London – Earth hanging inside the place where exploration of it began. The ceiling is unspeakably beautiful but no one could take their eyes off our gorgeous planet. It brought me to tears. Please go if you can.
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World’s most expensive tea fertilised by panda poo
http://t.co/dMDSsb1x4r
http://t.co/b9trPB7hKY
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@SarahECozart
You'll definitely start seeing some boost by next week but might take a little longer for the full immunity. Still better to do it asap than not at all. And either way keep masked up on planes!
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Hwacheon indoor ice sculpture is stunning, though Venus may be a little chilly.
http://t.co/gxr02wUUsC
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Views from Conwy Castle: Conwy River; three bridges: rail, foot and car.
#Wales
http://t.co/UMLYYv2rwY
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View from my room in
#Valloire
. This mountain girl is very happy right now.
#LPinFrance
.
http://t.co/gBhW7rBrEw
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I'm extremely pleased that LP has finally published the 16th edition of China after pulling it from the printer in 2020. All the writers worked so hard researching in 2018/19 & I poured out love getting it to print while also being made redundant. A bittersweet miracle to hold!
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A cat didn't tweet this, which dog has the controls at Number 10
I’m not sure which of you needs to hear this, but you’re doing great. I know you don’t feel like you are (nobody does) but I’m proud of you and we’re getting through this together x
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Serious sunset happening at my desk. Too bad it's only 4.24pm.
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This was legendary at Lonely Planet. We literally recieved training on this when I was hired as an editor 😂
Moving house. Found this in one of the boxes. Has to be one of the most brazen typos in the history of travel writing. (4th edition, 1999)
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My story in today's
@MetroUK
on the 10-year anniversary of Northumberland Dark Sky Park and the amazing ways to experience starry skies and nocturnal wildlife there. 🌌���🦉🦔
@IDADarkSky
@discovernland
@NlandNP
@kielder_obs
@DarkSky_Obs
@WildIntrigue
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In some lifetime maybe I will have reached enough enlightenment to incarnate as Ovenmitt.
Yes, this a 3am jetlag tweet.🐈
Complete relaxation when the tail lets go........ like all good things you must wait for it.....Purrrup
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Grateful & honoured to recieve the
@VisitUSA_UK
Digital Feature award for my
@IndyTravel
piece on rail travel in California. Thanks for recognising sustainable, local and community-forward travel. Sorry I couldn't be there but I'm dressed up anyway!
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What does a heart attack feel like? Not like the movies. I have been needing to write this for weeks. To process, move through PTSD, find acceptance and to heal. It's long and a little graphic, and I don't expect anyone to really read it. It's just for me.
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Went up the insane Tian Shan mountians today, on the border with Kyrgyzstan.
#Almaty
#LPinKaz
http://t.co/CKQweQYEI4
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