Les Deux Alpes: Classical French Skiing
For someone who thought she had two left feet it was a relief to hear I was kinaesthetically aware. Especially as I was at the top of the mountain and…
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.
Ski Boot Camp – Canadian Style
There are a few ways to survive a wimmin’s ski boot camp in the Canadian Rockies. One is to lie back in the Dead Bug yoga pose and think of…
Paradise Found In St Lucia
‘Mud, mud, volcanic mud. Nothing quite like it for boiling the blood’ Or, to more faithfully quote the Flanders and Swann Hippopotamus Song, ‘So follow me follow, down to the hollow. And there…