You might know the Balearics best for their glorious beaches and sun-soaked summers, but did you know that there is…
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Travel writing and long-form articles written by the BGTW’s members
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Entebbe Interlude
Entebbe is mostly remembered for a dramatic hijacking in the days of Idi Amin. Now it’s a sleepy backwater, writes…
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Sax and the Citadel
Taking care to enunciate his vowels, Stuart Render takes a breather next to the man who invented Charlie Parker’s instrument…
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Islandwana Adventure
You’ve done Kruger and the Cape: now try South Africa’s KwaZulu Natal, writes Ben West….. Whenever I meet someone who…
Croatia is a turquoise-watered, pebbly-beached hit among many Guild members. It has a fascinating history, lashings of sunshine, the freshest…
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Famous gardens revived
Peter Jolly reports on the restoration of the once hugely popular Leonardslee Gardens Not content with buying one of…
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Sardinian indulgence
Sardinia hopes to attract more UK visitors out of season – but what can it offer in the cooler…
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Leipzig – Bach to the present
Bryn Frank has travelled widely in Germany, but has a special fondness for the less well known east and north…
Last week Norwegian Cruise Lines (NCL) took possession of their latest cruise ship, Norwegian Bliss, during an on board signing…
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Zimbabwe: Tourism renaissance?
In November 2017 Zimbabwe experienced a change of president. Robert Mugabe, who spent almost 30 years as the head of…
Masterchef finalists? Maybe not yet. But a Guild group left a favourable impression in the teaching kitchen at Chewton Glen,…
Robin McKelvie is an Edinburgh based member of the BGTW. He has written over a thousand articles about Scotland for…
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Secrets of the New Forest
A January day in Hampshire, in the wake of the Guild’s AGM in Brockenhurst, proved an eye-opener for Bill Birkett…..…
In December 2017, the British Guild of Travel Writers visited Riga and Sigulda, in Latvia. Here, Simon Willmore relives the…
If the Government appears to be heading for a European divorce on a wing and a prayer, how apt is…
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Another fine meze
On a culinary odyssey in Istanbul, Isabel Conway goes in search of the world’s finest kebab… Ottoman ruler Sultan Mehmet…
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Marco Polo’s Favourite Island
Where better to take a holiday than Sri Lanka, where the locals are experts? The people of this tiny Ireland-sized…
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Tomb of the unknown relative
As ceremonies to mark the centenary of the Great War continued, veteran Guild member John Ruler found a corner of…
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Bistrot + boules = bonheur
Lis Gerard-Sharp finds the perfect equation for contentment in a Provencal village where not a lot goes on… Travel writers…
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A knights’ trail in the Aube
The French department of Aube is rich in the history of the Knights Templar, Simon Willmore followed their trail… The…
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Grapes and Golf
A South African style wine experience is planned in West Sussex. Peter Jolly investigates………… Some of the finest wine estates…