Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
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Europe’s leading Accessible Travel organisation, Tourism for All (TFA, www.tourismforall.org.uk) is teaming up with the global travel community (and all round coolest ethical tourism site around at the moment) Tripbod.com. The aim is to find as many local people as possible with a knowledge of accessibility in their area to become ‘Tripbods’ and offer their [...]
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Tags: accessible tourism, disabled tourists, Tourism for All, tripbod
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Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
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I once had an editor who told me that I shouldn’t write about people in travel. “Holidaymakers only want to know about the place, not the people. They’re irrelevant to travel articles”, he told me. However, writing about beaches and budget airlines, is not really my bag, as regular readers will know by now. People [...]
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Tags: donkey trekking, people and places, tourism concern, tripbod
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Saturday, November 28th, 2009
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At the risk of biting the hand that feeds me, Go’s ‘Shop through the drop’ article (14.11.09) about the ‘great’ return of Irish women to the New York shopping trip, in search of a credit crunch bargain, took me on a nostalgia trip. I did exactly that in my youth, which was also back in [...]
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Tags: burren, flysmart, tripbod, voya
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Sunday, September 20th, 2009
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I headed to Paris for a three year stint in the early eighties, knowing noone and feeling very much the stranger in town. Someone recommended that I post an ad for digs at The American church there, as that is where most English-speaking expats congregated to exchange information. It worked – I found a flat, [...]
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