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A widely-respected travel editor, Nancy is a past president of the Guild of Travel Writers (GTW). She and her husband Phil now run a horse sanctuary in East Sussex. More Posts

Walking on Devils Dyke

One of the joys of the coastal towns and cities of Sussex are their proximity to gorgeous countryside, so easily accessible. In London to reach the Chilterns from the centre would be an one hour trek. You can reach Devils Dyke from Brighton by car in 10 minutes. Yesterday I was deputed to do the [...]

September 1, 2017 // 0 Comments

Summing up

Despite poor weather we all enjoyed the du Maurier piligrimage. Our perception that Cornwall was doing well was confirmed by a friend of mine, a local travel guide. He said that on wet Wednesday 12,000 people visited the Eden Project. His view was that a weak pound made travel to mainland Europe [...]

August 5, 2017 // 0 Comments

Fowey and Helford Estuary

Though Cornwall is not the Riviera, for its range of locations and talented characters drawn there, there is still much to do of interest. On Sunday we went to Fowey on the river Fowey and opposite lies Bodinnick where Gerald du Maurier had a chalet style home and introduced Daphne to the locale. [...]

August 1, 2017 // 0 Comments

The French Riviera: a literary guide for travellers/Ted Jones

Travel writing is not one of my preferred reading genres though I recognize the merit of Eric Newby, Patrick Leigh Fermor, and the humour of Bill Bryson. Travel for me is visual and personal not objective and written. However I do enjoy a book on the characters that lived in a region I know well [...]

July 25, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Devil’s Dyke

Sussex where I live is blessed with picturesque countryside right up to the coast. Yesterday my brother visited and I decided we would go to Devil’s Dyke, a popular beauty spot not 5 minutes drive from the sea front at Hove. It gives its name to a story that the Devil himself tried to flood [...]

July 4, 2017 // 0 Comments

The charging of service

According to Wikipedia, it is believed that in Western European culture the practice of giving a tip or gratuity began around 1600 – the first reference to ‘giving a gratuity’ is apparently specifically dated to 1706 – and ‘tip’ was probably first adapted for use in a slang context from [...]

June 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

Sanary sur Mer

Yesterday I led the National Rust party to Sanary, a small town on the sea between the two great ports of Toulon and Marseilles. It was colonised by Aldous Huxley and Cyril Connolly and Cybille Bedford who wrote a rather good memoir of her upbringing there called Jigsaw. We decided to take the [...]

April 22, 2017 // 0 Comments

Le bilan

Le bilan is an accountancy word which literally might be translated as the balance sheet but is often used to convey the summing up. As I was on the midday EasyJet flight out of Nice yesterday surveying the Baie des Anges from up above I thought further of Daffers’ observation and did my [...]

April 5, 2017 // 0 Comments

Appreciating Nice

I have visited Nice many times and regard it as an underrated city. For many it is the gateway to the Riviera: to Antibes, Cannes and St Tropez to the east to Beaulieu, Cap Ferrat and Monte Carlo to the west. It would never for example be compared to Barcelona as a port city. Yet it has much to [...]

March 31, 2017 // 0 Comments

Mumbai City Tour

Yesterday afternooon we went on a city tour of Mumbai. Our first port of call was the Victoria Terminus railway station which brings in 7 million passengers per day. If I had time I would have liked to take an Indian railway ride as I imagine it’s quite an experience with animals, food bought [...]

December 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

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