The content on beatenpaths comes from its readers. We'd love to hear about your travels, so if you fancy yourself as a Paul Theroux or a Bill Bryson, or you've just had a great holiday and want to write about it, send us your story.

A few guidelines:

• Aim for between 500 and 1,500 words. If this means focusing on one event or anecdote rather than the whole of your round-the-world trip, you can always send us more articles.
• We're looking for your experiences of a place, rather than a third-person guide. Having said that, try to make where you were, what you did or who you met the star of the story, not you.
• Try to include a bit of background information about the place - we like to educate our readers (without making them feel like they are back at school!) 
• This isn't a review site, so don't spend too long describing the breakfast in your hotel. But if you stayed, ate or drank somewhere you liked, feel free to recommend it.
• We're not snobbish about "travelling" vs "holidays", and the least-discovered or furthest-flung places don't always make for the best stories, so as long as you have something entertaining to say about somewhere, we're interested.
• Any (relevant) photos would be great, and include links wherever possible.
• We'd also like to have your suggestions for films, books or music about or from the places you visit.
• Send your submissions as Word files (photos as jpegs) to editors[at]beatenpaths[dot]net, and don't forget to include a few words about yourself for us to include after your story.

You'll retain the copyright to your articles so can re-use them however you like, and we'd be happy to include brief biographies with links to and feeds from blogs/personal websites. We are also happy to consider previously published work, but please ensure that you have permission to publish it elsewhere.

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