Freelance Tour Manager for Rail Based vacations around the world
enigma noun [ C ] UK /ɪˈnɪɡ.mə/ US /əˈnɪɡ.mə/ something that is mysterious and seems impossible to understand completely: Japan The dictionary doesn’t really mention Japan, but it might as well. I believe that you could live your entire life in this country and still never be fully on top of the intricacies, …
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Aaaaah… Sri Lanka. Have you ever had that thing where you’re in love with a place but when asked why, It’s tough to explain? When I see Sri Lanka on my upcoming list of Tours, I take quiet pleasure every time. It’s not easy explaining why, but I guess my job on this Blog is …
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The problem with writing about Switzerland is that so much of it has been done before, in so many places and ways, including on this Journey Blog. I could tell you that the scenery is extraordinary and spectacular (it is) or that the trains and public transport are miraculously punctual (they are). I could tell …
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It’s easy to forget about little Portugal. On the Western edge of Europe, enveloped North and East by Spain and on the West and South by the Atlantic. It has a population of just over 10 million, and about 45% of them live in the two biggest cities, both coastal; Porto in the North and …
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India is a nation of contrasts and colours. Something that smells heavenly a yard away from something that doesn’t; wealth and poverty; beauty and ugliness; magnificence and crumbling concrete; old and new. I wanted to write about India as an experience, rather than as a sequence of remarkable sights. This is more difficult to say …
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Many, if not most of the Tours that I lead take in the best known sites of a particular country or region. They have to do so. After all, it would be nothing if not eccentric to visit Agra, but not the Taj Mahal; Pisa without the Leaning Tower or Egypt avoiding the pyramids. Without …
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Italy - “Il dolce far niente” “Il dolce far niente” translates approximately as “The sweetness of doing nothing”. For me, this saying encapsulates everything that I most love about Italy, at the same as it is the thing that can drive you the most crazy as a Tour Manager, trying to get things done! Life, …
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When you are travelling on a Tour you’re going to be accompanied by a suitcase or bag of some kind. Your bag is the world tourist that never speaks, or complains but that travels as much as you do. On the journey, it will be thumped, bumped, kicked and generally abused. You will take it …
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I may, possibly, have the best job in the world… I get to travel, visit and enjoy wonderful places and people, experience different cultures and best of all… I get to travel by rail whenever possible. Imagine the worst day at work you can think of, and then imagine that you have to work through …
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I’ve had a soft spot for Spain since I was very young. Somewhere around the age of 13 my family hooked up with a Spanish family, living in Valencia province and we visited annually spending many happy years and months there. The family had 8 daughters. After some years, there was a general consensus that …
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