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About Nancy Bright-Thompson

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

Self apartment v hotel

The pros and cons of self-catering apartments are fairly obvious. The benefits are it’s cheaper, more spacious, less tied to a hotel regime. The drawbacks are it’s less of a holiday with cooking, cleaning and washing and you’re less likely to meet people. I was disappointed on [...]

July 13, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Brighton Marathon

There was a turn out of watching Rusters to cheer on Polly who was running the marathon. She had shin splints and I urged her to withdraw.  She would have none of it  and went the full distance in great heat. We assumed our position at a Marine Gate on the Western route of the marathon. Bob [...]

April 13, 2015 // 0 Comments

From Utrecht to Paris : the longest day

I explained to Alice that organising travel tours are highly stressful as you need to cope with unplanned eventualities calmly. Yesterday was a prime example. The plan was to arrive in Amsterdam in good time and to take the 11-17 Thalys, a high tech express train to Paris. Well at least we arrived [...]

March 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

i360 – white elephant ?

Work has started on the 575 foot tower on the Brighton seafront opposite Regency Square and facing the defunct West Pier. Controversially the council approved a £36m loan to the architects Marks Barfield who constructed the London Eye. The repayment of the borrowing is to come from income [...]

March 14, 2015 // 0 Comments

Travelling in Brighton

Yesterday I took the number 7 bus into the centre of Brighton. Every bus in Brighton is named after a famous resident of the city. One is named after the deceased painter and sculptor Eric Gill who is the grand uncle of Polly. There was some controversy as it is said that Eric Gill allegedly had [...]

February 18, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Spanish Riding School & Schonbrunn Palace

Yesterday we saw two of Vienna’s best known attractions. Tickets for the Riding School needed to be ordered in advance and Robert Tickler has chronicled his difficulties with the Viennese ticket agency. The position seems to be not unlike ticket agencies who purport to be the box office of [...]

November 17, 2014 // 0 Comments

Getting to know Vienna and a strange encounter

Our first day was spent in the inner city and orientating ourselves. Yesterday I had a programme of visiting the food market (Naschmarkt) and museum area. The Third Man Museum was also close to ther Naschmarkt. Our first port of call was the ticket office of Vienna Classic to collect the tickets [...]

November 16, 2014 // 0 Comments

Off to Vienna

The National Rust staff outing to Vienna convened for a pre-departure briefing at English’s at Brighton: Polly, Bob Tickler, Daphne and myself. It’s interesting to see the profound way in which travel has been changed by the Internet. We booked the accommodation of apartments through [...]

November 13, 2014 // 0 Comments

Burning Man

A chance question to my cousin, who called from New York, produced an interesting response.  I asked him what he was doing for his summer holidays and he replied he was going to Burning Man. What’s that I asked. He explained and I was fascinated. Every year, around Labor Day, a city is [...]

August 15, 2014 // 0 Comments

Gay pride weekend

Brighton is gearing itself up for its weekend of the year, when thousands of gays head down to the coastal city and participate in a parade from the pier to Preston Park. Then they disperse into the town around Duke Street in Kemp Town and some finish up on Duke’s Mound to meet up … [...]

August 2, 2014 // 0 Comments

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