Antarctic Adventure on a Cruise to Remember
It’s the coldest, windiest, driest and most isolated region in the world _ the last great wilderness known as the frozen continent. ‘You’ll be cold,’ suggested friends when I announced…
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.
Theatre: Fast At Highgate’s Upstairs At The Gatehouse
It was Halloween Night and Highgate Village was seething with ghouls and ghosts and all things scary. Inflatable dinosaurs prowled the dark streets with vampires and witches while a dental…
Theatre: Gay Pride & No Prejudice
Here’s a show that’s as crisp as the iceberg lettuce that outlived Liz Truss’s premiership. And much more fun. The clue is in the title: Gay Pride and No Prejudice. …
Glamping In The Foothills Of Mount Fuji
When Mount Fuji has her hat on, so ancient legend goes, it will rain. How true. A mantle of cloud over the 3,776 metres summit announced a day of raining…
A Trip To Georgia (Via Islington)
All things tasty and Georgian were the toast of the town last weekend when the country’s chefs and sommeliers showed off their delicious wares to Londoners. We kicked off the…
Dorian: The Musical Explodes Onto The London Stage
A no-holds barred re-working of Oscar Wilde’s masterpiece, the Picture of Dorian Gray, explodes on the London stage this summer with Dorian: The Musical. A cast of impossibly young, talented,…
Unique Theatre at Windsor On Air: A Christmas Carol
Even as an avid theatre-goer and radio listener I’d never experienced a merger of both with a radio play on stage. There’s a first time for everything. And what better…
Swan Hellenic’s Scandi Cruise with a Sci Fi Twist
We all know how we don’t want to spend our holidays. Booking a one-way submersible trip for £250,000 to visit a Titanic graveyard would be bottom of my bucket list.…
Whetting the Appetite for Sri Lankan Cuisine: Karapincha
What’s Vauxhall got going for it? South of the Thames it boasts main line and underground stations, a busy bus terminus and spy city as the home of MI6. But,…
Morzine: The Ski Resort With A Conscience
This summer’s burning beaches, forest fires and record-smashing heatwave temperatures have prompted the United Nations to declare we’re in an era of ‘global boiling.’ So for winter sports fans booking…