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…
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.
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…
Craft Beer & Cosmopolitan Vibes at Parks Edge
Posh Dulwich. Edgy Brixton. And spanning the gap: Herne Hill, cosmopolitan urban oasis. Rich kids’ Dulwich College. Culture vultures’ Dulwich Picture Gallery, target of November art heist when would-be robbers…
La Clique, C’est Chic: Underbelly Leicester Square
As workplace injuries go it’s a given that sword swallowing is an accident waiting to happen. So it was as no great surprise to find that Heather Holliday, a sassy…
Film: Judy & Punch
I’m a five year old sucking on a stick of rock on a sunny beach at Southend-on-Sea. And I’m terrified. And thrilled at the violent antics of the puppets of…
Theatre: NYT’s Frankenstein
“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.” Across the dimmed lights of the theatre row upon row of the audience faced us like a regiment of Star Wars Stormtroopers. …
Escape to the Spirit of the Amazon
Take yourself off to London’s South Bank this November and drown in the sumptuous colour and images of an exhibition celebrating the Spirit of the Amazon. What better way to…