The Art of Bansky – An Unauthorised Collection Too Tempting To Miss
Banksy appears to have been busy on a ‘spray cation’ this summer in East Anglia with eight new art works to entrance, irritate, arouse and amuse. Britain’s best known Marmite…
Gill Martin
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Gill Martin is an award winning travel writer and former Fleet Street journalist – Daily Mail reporter, Daily Express feature writer and Sunday Mirror Woman's Editor.
She is a freelance writer for national newspapers from the Financial Times and Daily Telegraph to tabloids, magazines, regional newspapers and websites.
After a six month career break after the Indian Ocean tsunami where she volunteered as a communications consultant in Banda Aceh, Indonesia for Plan, the children's charity, she is now focused on travel.
From skiing everywhere from Kashmir to Argentina, Morocco to Turkey, North America and all over Europe; snow shoeing in Canada; captain of the GB team of the Ski Club of International Journalists; whitewater rafting down the Zambezi; electric mountain biking in Switzerland and cycling in Portugal; Kenyan and South African safaris; riding elephants in India and horses in Brazil; paint balling in Romania; opera and archeology in Serbia; Caribbean snorkelling; sampling food and wine in Italy.
Game for Anything @ Jugged Hare
A vegan’s worst dream come true: four cuddly, furry hares hanging by their back legs above the swinging kitchen door. On each side a selection of equally dead pheasant, quail…
Welcome to the World of Walking Apps
These Apps are made for walkin’ And that’s just what they’ll do One of these days these Apps are gonna walk all over… Oxford, Liverpool, Edinburgh, London. And happily for…
A Taste of Kazakhstan in Kensington
Across a busy London High Street the promise of foreign holidays demands our attention. Trail Finders, Virgin Travel and a couple of flight centres tempt us with images of bronzing…
Al Fresco Feasting in Pays de Gex
There can’t be many places where you can sip a flute of bubbly, glug just-chucked oysters, sample ‘bleu’ roast beef, taste tempting terrines, savour exotic fruits from Madagascar and try…
Touring Malta Through Wine From The Comfort of Home
Bacchus, the Greek god of wine, must have been in coronavirus lock-down when a cargo of the finest Maltese reds and whites was transported to London and onwards to my…
Horrendous Hake or Chocolate Heaven?
Hake swimming in chocolate sauce? Has the chef lost his marbles? Is this another bizarre dish dreamed up by Heston Blumenthal? No. This unlikely combination comes courtesy of a collaboration…
Film: Dancing at the Vatican
Watch out for a heart-warming film about an extraordinary journey of a group of Latin Americans suffering from the little-understood and hidden Huntington’s Disease. It will have you reaching for…
Cruising The Rhone
Ship’s captain Elvis Nicolas was busy Hoovering the bridge when we visited the nerve centre of his vessel M.S. Van Gogh, making stately progress on the River Rhone. The handsome…
Harbour Hopping and Crustacian Elation in Canada
‘Mud, mud, glorious mud, Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood So follow me, follow, Down to the hollow, And there let us wallow in glorious mud,’ sang the…
