Freelance Tour Manager for Rail Based vacations around the world
enigma noun [ C ] UK /ɪˈnɪɡ.mÉ™/ US /əˈnɪɡ.mÉ™/ 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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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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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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There’s a silly game that I play in my head sometimes. I imagine that I wake up one morning and discover that overnight, Britain has become North Korea (don’t laugh). I have to up sticks and live somewhere else. But where? Where else could I live happily and well? The list is depressingly short, but …
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I’ve been asked to write about China, and I’m currently staring at a blank page. How to write about the enigma that is China. Where do you start? Maybe the size? The 4th largest country in the world (9,596,960 sq km), bordering 14 countries. The rivers? The Yangtze, Yellow and Ob-Irtysh (me neither), not to …
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When you work in Global Travel, the globe doesn't always play as nice as you'd wish. Right now there is turmoil in the Gulf and this is affecting flight that route through that area. Great Rail Journeys have been working hard to repatriate clients on flights affected but there's always a knock-on. In this case, …
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