Jamie Fullerton
@jamiefullerton.bsky.social
Writer/journalist etc
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www.jamiefullerton.co.uk
Just work links
Contact via email rather than here, please
www.jamiefullerton.co.uk
Spent a month around 1,000km of Mexico's Tren Maya route for this: adventure.com/tren-maya-ra...
I spent a month on Mexico’s new Tren Maya route and found caves, cenotes and “savage capitalism”
Mexico’s new Tren Maya rail network whizzes tourists to jungles and Mayan ruins. But what’s it like riding this controversial mega-project?
adventure.com
August 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Spent a month around 1,000km of Mexico's Tren Maya route for this: adventure.com/tren-maya-ra...
Caves, cocktails and dances with deers: 11 days on Mexico’s Copper Canyon railway route www.independent.co.uk/travel/centr...
Exploring Chihuahua via Mexico’s Copper Canyon train
Mexico isn’t widely known for train adventures, but Jamie Fullerton found one of the world’s most intriguing rail routes in the country’s rural northwest
www.independent.co.uk
August 4, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Caves, cocktails and dances with deers: 11 days on Mexico’s Copper Canyon railway route www.independent.co.uk/travel/centr...
I rode Mexico's relaunched Tequila Express train to Tequila, for a BBC travel feature, which you could say was an interesting pitch considering I'm teetotal www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
The return of Mexico's famous Tequila Express train
With "tequila tourism" gaining popularity in Mexico, a train taking tourists to the home of the spirit has relaunched after nine years away.
www.bbc.com
May 27, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I rode Mexico's relaunched Tequila Express train to Tequila, for a BBC travel feature, which you could say was an interesting pitch considering I'm teetotal www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
Just before Trump said he wanted to reopen Alcatraz I went to Islas Marías, Mexico's notorious former prison island, which now allows tourists to visit on restricted tours managed by the navy. Travel feature for BBC. www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
Islas Marías: A notorious prison island turned natural paradise
As calls to reopen Alcatraz make headlines, Mexico's prison island tells a different story – of sea turtles, green parrots and a dark past giving way to new beginnings.
www.bbc.com
May 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Just before Trump said he wanted to reopen Alcatraz I went to Islas Marías, Mexico's notorious former prison island, which now allows tourists to visit on restricted tours managed by the navy. Travel feature for BBC. www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
Parsnip hands! Skeletons being inappropriately touched! Human chess! Lady Gaga played the first stadium show of her Mayhem tour last night in Mexico City - I reviewed it for @telegraphnews.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/music/concer...
Lady Gaga, Mexico City, review: more brilliantly bonkers than Katy Perry in space
Over the top? Definitely. Moving? Surprisingly so. Gaga’s latest stadium concert confirmed that a star is reborn
www.telegraph.co.uk
April 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Parsnip hands! Skeletons being inappropriately touched! Human chess! Lady Gaga played the first stadium show of her Mayhem tour last night in Mexico City - I reviewed it for @telegraphnews.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/music/concer...
In January I hiked Guatemala's Fuego volcano, which had a huge eruption last weekend, forcing evacuations. I wrote about my trip, and the potential risks of volcano tourism: adventure.com/guatamala-fu...
Guatemala’s volcano tours offer local guides a different path—but at what risk?
Writer Jamie Fullerton climbed Fuego to see why for many locals, working on a lava-spewing volcano is worth the gamble.
adventure.com
March 15, 2025 at 8:56 AM
In January I hiked Guatemala's Fuego volcano, which had a huge eruption last weekend, forcing evacuations. I wrote about my trip, and the potential risks of volcano tourism: adventure.com/guatamala-fu...
The murder and legacy of the world’s first openly gay imam: I'm on @theguardian.com Today in Focus podcast talking about the late Imam Muhsin's role as a community and religious leader, and gay rights activist www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...
The murder and legacy of the world’s first openly gay imam – podcast
How did Imam Muhsin change the lives of queer Muslims? Jamie Fullerton reports
www.theguardian.com
February 24, 2025 at 9:56 AM
The murder and legacy of the world’s first openly gay imam: I'm on @theguardian.com Today in Focus podcast talking about the late Imam Muhsin's role as a community and religious leader, and gay rights activist www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...
Today North Korea opened up to Western tourists for the first time in five years. Usual rules apply: no free roaming, no insulting the Kim dictators etc. I spoke to Simon Cockerell from Koryo Tours and Lina Yoon from @hrw.org for an audio piece for @theworld.org theworld.org/segments/202...
February 20, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Today North Korea opened up to Western tourists for the first time in five years. Usual rules apply: no free roaming, no insulting the Kim dictators etc. I spoke to Simon Cockerell from Koryo Tours and Lina Yoon from @hrw.org for an audio piece for @theworld.org theworld.org/segments/202...
Muhsin Hendricks, known as the world's first openly gay imam, was murdered last Saturday. He was pure love. Audio story for @theworld.org, featuring my interview with Imam Muhsin at his mosque in Cape Town. (Photo by Matjaz Tancic) theworld.org/segments/202...
February 19, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Muhsin Hendricks, known as the world's first openly gay imam, was murdered last Saturday. He was pure love. Audio story for @theworld.org, featuring my interview with Imam Muhsin at his mosque in Cape Town. (Photo by Matjaz Tancic) theworld.org/segments/202...
Bridges save Costa Rican sloths from road deaths: I headed to Central America to hang out with some greasy mammals. Audio story for @theworld.org theworld.org/segments/202...
February 10, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Bridges save Costa Rican sloths from road deaths: I headed to Central America to hang out with some greasy mammals. Audio story for @theworld.org theworld.org/segments/202...
The violent history of Costa Rica’s most popular souvenir - my latest from Costa Rica, for The Telegraph www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/desti...
The violent history of Costa Rica’s most popular souvenir
The brightly coloured balsa-wood masks are ubiquitous in the country, and of enormous significance to the indigenous people of Boruca
www.telegraph.co.uk
January 23, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The violent history of Costa Rica’s most popular souvenir - my latest from Costa Rica, for The Telegraph www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/desti...
Songs, tears and resistance: the Nicaraguan exile rallying audiences in Costa Rica - my latest for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Songs, tears and resistance: the Nicaraguan exile rallying audiences in Costa Rica
As one of the tens of thousands to have fled Daniel Ortega’s regime, singer and ‘artivist’ Olguita Acuña says she has a duty to raise awareness of her country’s situation
www.theguardian.com
January 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Songs, tears and resistance: the Nicaraguan exile rallying audiences in Costa Rica - my latest for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
I went to Costa Rica's Boruca village to see the Dance of the Little Devils: a four-day ritual celebrating indigenous resistance against Spanish colonists. Audio story for @theworld.org theworld.org/segments/202...
January 8, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I went to Costa Rica's Boruca village to see the Dance of the Little Devils: a four-day ritual celebrating indigenous resistance against Spanish colonists. Audio story for @theworld.org theworld.org/segments/202...
Spent Christmas Day watching this lot get nailed by bulls in Pedregal, Costa Rica, where bullfighting is more like bull 'dodging'. Audio story for @theworld.org theworld.org/segments/202...
January 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Spent Christmas Day watching this lot get nailed by bulls in Pedregal, Costa Rica, where bullfighting is more like bull 'dodging'. Audio story for @theworld.org theworld.org/segments/202...
Olguita Acuna left Nicaragua in 2018 after taking part in protests against the dictatorship. Now, in San Jose, she sings songs of resistance and hope, galvanising the huge Nicaraguan exile community. Audio story for @theworld.org theworld.org/segments/202...
December 10, 2024 at 5:04 PM
Olguita Acuna left Nicaragua in 2018 after taking part in protests against the dictatorship. Now, in San Jose, she sings songs of resistance and hope, galvanising the huge Nicaraguan exile community. Audio story for @theworld.org theworld.org/segments/202...
There’s a lobster hatchery in Cornwall that releases up to 50,000 baby lobsters into the ocean each year. I made an audio story about it for @theworld.org theworld.org/segments/202...
November 26, 2024 at 7:01 PM
There’s a lobster hatchery in Cornwall that releases up to 50,000 baby lobsters into the ocean each year. I made an audio story about it for @theworld.org theworld.org/segments/202...
Community sheds are opening in the UK, offering friendship amid woodwork. I went to The Witney Shed, one of many sheds linked to UK Men’s Sheds Association, to see how the stereotype of the lone gent tinkering in a shed is being flipped. Audio story for @theworld.org theworld.org/segments/202...
November 19, 2024 at 5:39 PM
Community sheds are opening in the UK, offering friendship amid woodwork. I went to The Witney Shed, one of many sheds linked to UK Men’s Sheds Association, to see how the stereotype of the lone gent tinkering in a shed is being flipped. Audio story for @theworld.org theworld.org/segments/202...
The sound sculpture in Austria where you can hear a glacier ‘crying’: my latest for Adventure.com adventure.com/silent-echoe...
The sound sculpture in Austria where you can hear a glacier ‘crying’
In an Austrian ice cave, an artist gives the dying Dachstein glacier a voice—via a sound sculpture highlighting the impact of climate change.
adventure.com
September 19, 2024 at 4:11 PM
The sound sculpture in Austria where you can hear a glacier ‘crying’: my latest for Adventure.com adventure.com/silent-echoe...
I met Riyosuke Kiyasu in Warsaw and saw his somewhat unconventional drum show, then made an audio story about it for The World theworld.org/segments/202...
September 18, 2024 at 7:46 AM
I met Riyosuke Kiyasu in Warsaw and saw his somewhat unconventional drum show, then made an audio story about it for The World theworld.org/segments/202...
“It’s the sound of the glacier dying”… my latest audio story, from Dachstein glacier, Salzkammergut, Austria, for PRX’s The World theworld.org/segments/202...
In rural Austria, someone wants you to hear the sound of a glacier crying - The World from PRX
The Dachstein glacier in Austria is nearly 9,000 feet high. But scientists say that it’s likely to melt completely by the end of this century. An artist from Cleveland, Ohio, was commissioned to creat...
theworld.org
September 7, 2024 at 8:46 AM
“It’s the sound of the glacier dying”… my latest audio story, from Dachstein glacier, Salzkammergut, Austria, for PRX’s The World theworld.org/segments/202...
My latest for The Guardian: Bad Ischl is the first alpine rural area to be awarded European Capital of Culture status, bringing nudity and surreal sculptures to a place more in tune with classical music and mountain pursuits www.theguardian.com/travel/artic...
Austrian town gets its lederhosen in a twist over modern art
Bad Ischl is the first alpine town to be awarded European capital of culture status, bringing nudity and surreal sculptures to a rural area more in tune with classical music and mountain pursuits
www.theguardian.com
August 29, 2024 at 12:54 PM
My latest for The Guardian: Bad Ischl is the first alpine rural area to be awarded European Capital of Culture status, bringing nudity and surreal sculptures to a place more in tune with classical music and mountain pursuits www.theguardian.com/travel/artic...
Two years ago a female Russian explorer, along with two friends, was arrested for espionage in Albania. She’s still waiting for the case to be resolved, so in the meantime has accidentally become Albania’s no.1 urban explorer. I met her for PRX’s The World theworld.org/segments/202...
August 27, 2024 at 5:03 PM
Two years ago a female Russian explorer, along with two friends, was arrested for espionage in Albania. She’s still waiting for the case to be resolved, so in the meantime has accidentally become Albania’s no.1 urban explorer. I met her for PRX’s The World theworld.org/segments/202...
Bagpipes: big in Bulgaria. I went to a bagpipe festival in the Rhodope Mountains to create an audio story for PRX’s The World theworld.org/segments/202...
August 25, 2024 at 10:18 PM
Bagpipes: big in Bulgaria. I went to a bagpipe festival in the Rhodope Mountains to create an audio story for PRX’s The World theworld.org/segments/202...