Q. Who pays for my travel covered in this blog? A. I do.
If I visit somewhere then there is a very high probability you can afford to also. If I think a destination or product is good value, it is because as far as I was concerned it was. I may have had an excellent night’s stay in a hotel but if it used up a lot of my financial resources for the trip then it is not going to rate highly with me.
It is not my ambition to go on Press Trips, but if you really want me to cover a destination activity, then I will be happy to do so as long as:
1. The reports don’t end up in this blog magazine. So if you have your own blog or website where the articles can be published, then I might be able to work for you
2. You don’t insist on me signing a contract restricting my freedom to write on any subject I choose including your competitors.
I guess that will have put you off if you were interested. I do write for the VisitBritain Superblog with original articles and sometimes link to them with related articles on this site. If the articles were produced as a result of a Press Trip, there will be no link from this site.
If you have a blog then you might be interested in staying with me in my apartment at Chamonix this winter. You will have to pay for your travel to the resort, food and lift passes. Only your accommodation will be free.
TravelCrunch is not set up to earn money, or if you prefer big words, monetised.
One of the added bonuses of a Chamonix Season Lift Pass, is the chance to discover three other winter resorts in Haute-Savoie, so decided I’d like to explore Evasion Mont Blanc, a series of linked resorts including St Gervais, Megeve, Combloux and La Giettaz. In all 445 km of pistes. [...]
A photo essay of the Udal Peninsula on North Uist, Western Isles, Scotland.
While walking the streets of Brussels, I am often aware that I am following in the footsteps of Georges Rémi, better known as Hergé, creator of Tintin. From where I type this article, I can see both of the schools he attended in his youth. He left his mark in the form [...]
It is the overhead snippets of conversation, that tells me that Winter Wonders or Plaisirs d’Hiver in French, is popular with visitors. “I was like…” the repeated “like” in twenty something females’ conversations. The oral version of a Facebook Wall. Or “I am lucky, as I can catch a train [...]
The theme for the photo sharing day on Twitter on Friday 18 November 2011 was Flags. If you look at my Twitter profile you will see that I tend to spend time between three locations. In this piece, I will include photos, including flags from each of these places. Wales [...]
There are a lot of widely held views built on hearsay and misinformation. The deeper I look, the more complicated the story seems to get. One of my aims is to educate myself on travel environmental issues. Then to share my findings on this site and hopefully start a discussion [...]
#FriFotos is the weekly photo sharing day on Twitter. On Friday November 11, the theme is “Fall”, but as is usual, it is open to interpretation. Fall is the term used for Autumn in North America. However, the eleventh of November is Armistice Day and a Public Holiday in much [...]
The abbey of Val-Dieu was founded in 1216 by Cistercian monks. Surviving wars, floods and moral crises, it was temporarily dissolved by the French Revolution. Then in 1844 with the aid of the church and the last surviving monk, it was re-established and flourished again for another 150 years. The [...]
Have you ever stood on a railway station concourse and stared longingly at destinations on the Departures Board that were not printed on your tickets? Have you ever found yourself on the road somewhere and found that the you were travelling along one of the world’s more famous long distance [...]
Street art Last week I visited the Ixelles Museum here in Brussels before their exhibition on Street Art closed and is replaced by a Dubuffet exhibition. Bonom was featured heavily, with insights into how he plans his pieces. The photo above shows a spider on a concrete building by Chapelle [...]
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