Gourmet Traveller

ON THE ROAD

Jack Kerouac has a lot to answer for. The American novelist probably didn’t intend to romanticise the long-distance road trip when he penned On the Road in 1957. And yet, romanticise it he did.

“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars,” he wrote wistfully.

More than 60 years later, the call of the open road has never beckoned more loudly than in a post-Covid-19 world of border closures and flight restrictions. But

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