The New Map Makers
THE BEATLES
owever hard you might try to clutch on to more recent music, The Beatles will always have a special spot, at least on your vacation playlists. The timeless British band changed the landscape of rock music forever and wrote songs replete with travel references that are bound to inspire. Whether it was the spontaneity of heading just about anywhere in a bus full of ale-drunk people in the or the image of ‘a boat on a river with tangerine trees and marmalade skies’ in – barring some scandalous drug references, voyages were often featured in their music. To this day, their die-hard fans have Beatles pilgrimages on their bucket lists, where they travel across the UK and the USA to their popular tour venues, as well as to the Indian city of Rishikesh, in Uttarakhand, where they practised meditation and wrote many of
