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Victoria Trott is an award-winning travel writer from Swansea who specialises in France. Here she talks about her life as a travel writer. Disclosure: This article contains click-through links to affiliate marketing websites. If you make a purchase we stand to make a small commission at no additional cost to […]
Visiting Stonehenge, Avebury and Salisbury, in Wiltshire, is like taking a journey back through time, suggests Tim Locke in this travel feature. WREN: if you know where to look, you’ll see these surprising letters carved into the most celebrated prehistoric monument in Britain. Stonehenge has been attracting visitors for centuries, and […]
Tempted by the idea of attending a residential boot camp as a way of losing weight and improving your fitness? They’re not all about being bawled at and crawling through mud. This post provides 10 strong and healthy reasons to attend Northern Bootcamp. Disclosure: A member of the MannedUp team […]
In November 2017 Zimbabwe underwent a change of leadership. Emmerson Mnangagwa replaced Robert Mugabe as the Zimbabwean president. Early in 2018, at the World Economic Forum held in Davos, Switzerland, Mr Mnangagwa announced that “Zimbabwe is open for business”. For travellers, what does that mean? Travel journalist Stuart Forster travelled […]
Postage stamp sized Swaziland (or eSwatini as it is now called, following renaming in April 2018) is the smallest country in Southern Africa, but has more than its fair share of offerings when it comes to adrenaline seeking; you can be abseiling the highlands in the morning and game viewing […]
Rebecca Hall is based in Greece and the author Girl Gone Greek. She is widely known was Bex and provides insights into her work in this Inside Travel Writing interview. Her debut novel was published in 2015 and has subsequently been converted into a screenplay. Disclosure: Some of the links […]
The adrenaline was kicking in, our bikes racing down the Namibian dunes at full throttle. After a slow ride through Swakopmund (a little bit of local history thrown in) and then a dry river bed: fat biking proved to be one of the most exhilarating ways to get acquainted with […]
I live in Miami now but I return to New York or Paris whenever possible. Some of my favourite places — because they have just about everything a traveler could want — include Morocco, New Zealand, Italy.
Everybody seems to write about their trips on social media, usually for free. You have to find a way to get noticed, and do things better than most. And keep your day job. Making a good living, aside from the travel ops, is difficult.
The New Forest National Park lies just west of Southampton and offers much for travellers. So here’s a look at 10 top things to do in the New Forest. Far from being completely forested or new, the area is actually a mixture of heath and woodland that England’s King William […]
Kathryn Burrington is the successful travel blogger behind the blog Travel With Kat. In 2017 she was awarded the British Guild of Travel Writers’ Travel Blogger of the Year Award. Here she talks to MannedUp.com for our Inside Travel Writing column: What kind of travel related niche do you specialise […]
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