Trott Around Travel

Trott Around Travel

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Trott Around Travel episodes

  • How Wendy wrote a novel in six months
    Prolific Brittany-based writer Wendy Mewes talks about her latest novel, The Stolen Saint, and why this is only her third work of fiction. We also get an insight into the author's writing process and how she is inspired by Breton landscape and culture.
    28 min
  • How Visit Flanders is dealing with the pandemic
    Anita Rampall, the UK & Ireland Press Manager for Visit Flanders, tells me how the tourist board for north Belgium - famous for the cities of Antwerp, Bruges, Brussels and Ghent (pictured) as well as the World War I sites - has been dealing with the upheaval caused by the pandemic.
    35 min
  • Why I'm packing my bags for Italy
    Deserted cities, no queues for museums and Italians following strict social distancing guidelines. After my chat with award-winning travel writer Lisa Gerard-Sharp, who is lives between northern Italy and southern France, I can't wait to head off. Multi-skilled, multi-lingual Lisa, a member of the British Guild of Travel Writers, contributes to the likes of The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian and National Geographic Traveller. You can find her on Twitter @LisaGerardSharp.
    34 min
  • What to expect in Greece this summer
    Greece right now feels like it did 35 years ago, says Heidi Fuller Love. Heidi is the Crete expert and one of the Greece experts for The Daily Telegraph; she regularly contributes to the BBC's From Our Own Correspondent and also makes a podcast ("Meet the Locals") for BA's inflight radio. You can find her on Twitter @FullerloveHeidi and on Instagram @heidifullerlovestravel.
    28 min
  • How lockdown affected Dylan Thomas

    Geoff Haden has long been involved in tourism in Swansea (Wales) as owner of Clyne Farm Activity Centre (clynefarm.com), which also has self-catering accommodation, and 5 Cwmdonkin Drive, the birthplace of poet and playwright Dylan Thomas (dylanthomasbirthplace.com). The latter is a member of Literary Houses and Museums of Great Britain (lithouses.org) and was voted Best Small Attraction in Swansea Bay 2019 in the local tourism awards. I chat to Geoff about how lockdown has affected his businesses.

    33 min

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Hosted by Victoria Trott, award-winning travel journalist and member of the British Guild of Travel Writers.