Here are some video highlights from our recent trip to the Champagne region of France for this year’s British Guild…
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Lisa Gerard-Sharp makes art of red mullet at a culinary Hogwarts in Reims “Eat with your eyes – throw powder…
Mike Pedley explores Champagne’s terroirs and cellars The Avenue de Champagne in Epernay is no ordinary street. Its kilometre-long strip…
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1.7m Impressions of La Champagne & L’Ardenne
Last week, just under 90 BGTW travel writers, bloggers, photographers & broadcasters visited Reims in Northern France for our Annual…
On first acquaintance, says Roger Bray, Reims and Troyes appear to be chalk and cheese. The former is solidly mature…
This weekend, the advance guard of the BGTW will be heading out to Reims in France at the start of…
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Members’ News: Winter 2016
ISSUED BY THE BRITISH GUILD OF TRAVEL WRITERS Issue No.54; December 2016 CHAIRMAN’S MESSAGE It’s been another busy quarter for…
The BGTW’s annual awards for the best developments in tourism are always eagerly awaited. Here’s a full list of the…
With the unveiling of top tourism honours for a new railway, a project to connect the horrors of the Great…
To all the generous providers of prizes for the charity raffle at our annual gala awards dinner – a big…
The final countdown has begun to the travel event of the year. Though the two go together like airports and…
Two Guild members took top honours in this year’s Travel Media Awards at a ceremony at London’s ME Hotel. James Lowen…
Though it was designed for the uninitiated the Guild’s latest tutorial on social media – “Twitter & Instagram for Beginners” –…
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Members’ News: Summer 2016
ISSUED BY THE BRITISH GUILD OF TRAVEL WRITERS Issue No.53; August 2016 CHAIRMAN’S MESSAGE I spend a lot of my…
Whether by accident or design – I like to think the latter – there was a perfect match between the…
Gillian Thornton reports on a Guild tour of Blenheim Palace: As thank you presents go, Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire ranks…
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Members News: Spring 2016
ISSUED BY THE BRITISH GUILD OF TRAVEL WRITERS Issue No.52; April 2016 CHAIRMAN’S MESSAGE This first quarter of 2016 has…
Geoff Moore – a blogging virgin – reports on the changing face of travel media: My blogging baptism took place…
Neil Taylor reports on the Guild’s March social evening: Staying in a pub seems such an obvious thing to do…
Lindsay Sutton takes to the air. NEVER mind ‘The Wrong Kind of Trousers.’ We had ‘The Wrong Kind of Wind,’…
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Walking among volcanoes – Tenerife AGM 2016
Last night we squinted through the dusk to follow the rocky, uneven path that led us back from a fiery sunset…