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Nicola Chilton

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@nicolachilton
I tell stories about people and places around the world for @cntravellerme @afarmedia @departuresint @timestravel and more from my base in Dubai🇦🇪🌎
  • Travel
  • Following 6.1K
  • Followers 7.8K
  • Engagement 2.32%
  • Avg comments 30

About Nicola Chilton

Nicola Chilton (@nicolachilton) is a Writer creator on Instagram, also filed under Travel. The account has 7,811 followers and 8,081 published posts. Recent posts average 136 likes and 30 comments, an engagement rate of 2.32%.

Nicola Chilton belongs to the nano tier, the band usually drawn between 1,000 and 10,000 followers. Nicola Chilton follows 6,066 accounts, close to one account followed for each of the 7,811 followers. Nicola Chilton uses an Instagram professional account. Flinque files Nicola Chilton under Writer, with Travel as a secondary category.

The Instagram bio for Nicola Chilton runs to 22 words. The bio mentions @cntravellerme, @afarmedia, @departuresint and @timestravel. The latest activity Flinque has on record for Nicola Chilton dates from January 2026.

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8,081 Posts

All 10 recent posts Flinque holds for Nicola Chilton are carousels. With 8,081 posts published, Nicola Chilton's archive runs well past the 2,000 mark. Against the audience, that is roughly 1 followers for each post published. Nicola Chilton also keeps 43 story highlights on the profile. All 10 carry captions, averaging 163 words each. The captions are written mainly in English. Words that recur across them include untoldtravelstories, place, it’s, first and went. The captions tag #untoldtravelstories, #greece, #travel, #athens and #luxor.

The 2026 Ras Al Khaimah Art Festival has just started in Al Jazeera Al Hamra Heritage Village, and it’s fantastic.

I first went to, a former pearl fishing village, ten years ago when you could drive yourself around the sandy tracks and wander around the houses. Like many abandoned villages, there are - predictably - rumours that it’s haunted. I’ve never seen a djinn, but that’s not to say they’re not there.

Ten years ago, the buildings were crumbling, and it looked like it would be just a matter of time before they collapsed or were knocked down for yet another luxury resort or residential development. But wonderfully, they’ve been preserved and are now being used as venues for art.

is like a combination of art gallery and urbex. Trails wind through the entire village, and you can peer into most of the unrestored buildings, and even go inside some of them. It’s a brilliant mix, especially with today’s little fluffy clouds as a backdrop, and runs until February 8.

And there are even cut-outs to pose behind, which is definitely a bonus. I’ll always do it, even if I have to ask a complete stranger to take my photo. Like today. You may not be able to spot mine in the carousel, but if you need a hint, look for the pearl fisherman.

#rakart #aljazeeraalhamra #rak #rasalkhaimah untoldtravelstories
I’m cheating a bit with this post. The first pic is where I was a few days ago, but it’s not the weather I had a few days ago. The day before I arrived at it snowed. The day after I left it snowed. The day I was there it poured with rain. Non-stop. Scroll through the rest of the photos to see what it was like.

But there was a magic to it. Manna in the rain is cosier than cosy. It forced me to slow down, otherwise I’d have been insisting on going to Vytina for saganaki and Dimitsana for a drink and perhaps doing a hike and maybe going to see the monasteries that cling to the cliffs and to the kafeneio where you help yourself to whatever’s in the fridge and leave your money in the box.

Instead, I was happy to sit by the fire, watch the rain, and drink mountain tea with fir honey. And I got to do all of that with the brilliant, the wonderful human being who dreamt up this amazing place and built it out of a century-old abandoned sanatorium that he used to play in as a child.

Time very well spent. But next time it snows in Arcadia, I’ll be tempted to jump on the next plane.

#manna #mannaarcadia #arcadia #greece #untoldtravelstories
A little bit more Athens love, in video form.

Magical, all of it.

🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷

#athens #evzones #acropolis #greece #untoldtravelstories
Back in the city that I fall for more and more, every time I’m here. The realness of it. The grittiness. The occasional chaos. The relaxedness.

The brilliance of the friends I have here and the new people I meet each visit.

The scruffiness and the beauty, wrapped in a tight embrace. The creativity. The friendliness. The occasional grumpiness. The spontaneous fun and laughter. The sense that this city doesn’t really care what you think of it.

The history, the energy, the sounds of live music that pour out of a taverna as I walk by. The ritual and ceremony. The language that I understand more and more with each visit. The patience of people when I try it out and make multiple mistakes.

The sense of awe when I turn a corner and the Acropolis is right there, towering above me. That feeling that I’m walking in the footsteps of philosophers and warriors, of gods, demigods and mythical creatures in a place that changed the world.

Athens is intoxicating and irresistible. It’s everything a city should be.

#athens #αθήνα #greece #travel #untoldtravelstories
There’s light and dark in everything.

2025 was the year that stole Peeps, my steadfast feline companion of 18.5 years, my beautiful friend Thaisa, and my left ovary. Which is, overall, quite heavy on the balance sheet.

But it also brought new friends into my life, and travel to places I’d never been before, like Iraqi Kurdistan, Grenada and Newfoundland. I skied and surfed and wakesurfed. I hiked in Oman and Canada. I snorkelled in the Saudi Red Sea. I cruised down the Nile. I travelled solo, with friends, with my parents, and with my clever, funny and handsome partner

I made multiple return trips to places I love, like Greece, Egypt and Ireland. I went back to my former home of Japan for the first time in many years and realised that in some places, everything changes while at the same time, absolutely nothing changes at all.

I wrote about wonderful people and places, and had more than 120 articles published in over 20 publications, thanks to the incredible editors I have the good fortune to work with and who are, by far, the best in the business.

I also had the opportunity to work on some brilliant projects with some brilliant people. And I put plans in place for much, much more in 2026.

Highs and lows for sure. But that’s what life is all about in the end, isn’t it?

Happy New Year to friends both IRL and virtual. Here’s to the next one. May it be good to all of us.

#newyear2026 #untoldtravelstories #travel
My last work trip of 2025, and it’s to Luxor, a place that has so much magic it feels unreal. It’s like a dream. The tombs. The temples. The strip of green it sits in, squeezed by deserts on both sides. The mystery and mystique and buried treasure and hidden secrets. The that feels like a fantasy. The smiles and the laughter. The implausibility of it all. It feels like travelling through time.

Read about it soon in ✨

#luxor #egypt #nile #untoldtravelstories
There’s magic in Luxor, not least at the beautiful. Read all about it soon in ✨🌴🐪

#luxor #egypt #nile #hotel #untoldtravelstories
Adiós mi querida Thaisita. Tan llena de luz, de energía, de belleza, de amor.

Thank you for everything we shared. The times we laughed until it hurt. Your strong, stubborn spirit. Your eye rolls that melted into smiles in spite of yourself when and I were being ridiculous about something. Your sense of fun that would come out of nowhere. Your smile that could brighten the most curmudgeonly heart. Your bad moods and good moods and sweetness against all odds. And, above all, your friendship, a beautiful, precious thing that I was in awe of and proud of.

Fly well,. You were tenacious to the very end. You can finally rest now.

🤍🕊️
Fresh off a few jam-packed days in Kuwait for a very exciting project. I shivered in the winter rain, stood on a tank left over from the Iraqi invasion, went birdwatching and saw eagles, visited Ancient Greek ruins, and watched camels try to get in our car and eat our seatbelts. Not necessarily things you associate with a place most people think is just desert and oil.

A few days very well spent, with some very lovely people. You’ll hear what it was all about soon..!🇰🇼

#kuwait #untoldtravelstories #travel
Farewell my little Peeps, the cat formerly known as Biscuit (I thought it was a good name for a ginger cat, but it never really stuck), also known as Peeps Bear, Peepsy Mouse and The Peepser.

I was never a cat person until Peeps came into my life on a hot day in Hong Kong, a tiny sick kitten abandoned in a cardboard box next to the Mid-Levels escalator, eyes glued shut and motionless. At first I thought he was dead, but when I shook the box he let out a big meow.

As a kitten, he’d sleep on my shoulder and latch onto my earlobe. When he got bigger, he would climb onto the sofa next to me and hug my arm with his legs like a koala hugging a tree, snoring peacefully by my side. He did this forever, and it was the best feeling.

He was a gentle soul, a sweet, small boy with a wonky tail and a love of rubbing his nose on mine. If I was sleeping, he’d hook his teeth into my hair and pull my face to his. Later, when he’d lost his teeth, he’d still try with his gums.

He was a world traveller, moving with me from Hong Kong to Thailand and later to Dubai. He completely lost his hearing a few years back, meaning that he could sleep blissfully undisturbed by vacuum cleaners and doorbells, but I still talked and sang to him because I knew he could feel my voice.

He thought books were only good for scratching or sleeping on. He would steal water from my glass when I wasn’t looking. Sometimes he would sleep face down and I had to check he was breathing. I liked to think we looked alike, with the same white faces, ginger hair, and greenish eyes.

On the rare occasions when he didn’t like something, he’d make a sound like the gates of hell opening. He did this the time he went to the vet in Bangkok to have teeth extracted and made such a fuss that they put a “Very Dangerous Cat” sign on his cage. I was incredibly proud of him that day.

He was inseparable from his brother-from-another-mother Mini, who will miss him as much as I will. He was 18 and a half when he left us this week, an excellent age for such a small boy who now leaves a huge Peeps-shaped hole in my heart.💔

Nicola Chilton's engagement

Nicola Chilton's engagement rate on Instagram is 2.32%, between 1% and 3%, or 1 to 3 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 43 followers. Comments stay close to likes on Nicola Chilton's posts, at 136 likes and 30 comments on average, about 4.5 likes per comment.

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2.32%

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136
Avg comments
30
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Who is Nicola Chilton?

Nicola Chilton (@nicolachilton) is a Writer creator on Instagram, also filed under Travel. Nicola Chilton uses an Instagram professional account. The Instagram bio for Nicola Chilton runs to 22 words.

How many followers does Nicola Chilton have?

Nicola Chilton has 7,811 followers on Instagram (7.8K). Nicola Chilton follows 6,066 accounts, close to one account followed for each of the 7,811 followers. With 8,081 posts published, Nicola Chilton's archive runs well past the 2,000 mark.

What is Nicola Chilton's engagement rate?

Nicola Chilton's engagement rate on Instagram is 2.32%, between 1% and 3%, or 1 to 3 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 43 followers. Comments stay close to likes on Nicola Chilton's posts, at 136 likes and 30 comments on average, about 4.5 likes per comment.

What does Nicola Chilton post about on Instagram?

Flinque files Nicola Chilton under Writer, with Travel as a secondary category. All 10 recent posts Flinque holds for Nicola Chilton are carousels. The 10 recent Instagram captions Flinque holds for Nicola Chilton repeatedly use the words untoldtravelstories, place, it’s, first and went. Nicola Chilton's captions carry hashtags such as #untoldtravelstories, #greece and #travel. Nicola Chilton writes those captions mainly in English. Nicola Chilton keeps 43 story highlights, which open with a free Flinque account.

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