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Hold onto your seats, everyone. Because somebody (ahem Gordon) had the wild-brained idea of hiring an ecologist-by-training to write travel pieces. And then Wheel and Anchor announced a trip every biologist has dreamed of, to the birthplace of evolution: The Galapagos.
Greetings from Cape Town!
I just arrived to spend some time with Elsa, our trip-coordinator extraordinaire, before setting off to explore Namibia & Botswana with another group of Wheel & Anchor travellers.
(I was hoping for a Table Mountain backdrop for this week's video blog, but delays and a subsequent missed connection kept me in Frankfurt and thus we had to go with the still-scenic Römerberg Square.
Check out the webinar replay from our recent Q&A webinar about our
Porto & the Douro Valley 2024 program:
Greetings from Florence!
I've just arrived with some members for a few weeks here in the Renaissance capital, ready to explore one of Italy's most beautiful cities after a few weeks on one of her most inspiring coasts.
Our timing is such that we are in the centre of Europe's intellectual and cultural rebirth as the flowers of spring bloom around us, a beautiful reminder of the cyclical nature of time and the flow of energy.
Check out the webinar replay from our recent Q&A webinar about our
Morocco Land of Enchantment 2024 program:
Sangkranta is the Cambodian celebration of the new year. Sangkranta lasts a few days each April and, by the end, every city is wet to the bone. It’s formally three days, but festivities last up to a week–full of festivals, food, and street fighting.
Check out the webinar replay from our recent Q&A webinar about our
Koh Phangan Chakra Journey program:
Greetings from Sorrento!
We're just back from an olive farm trip here on the Amalfi Coast, enjoying the last tastes and smells of the region as our trip nears its close. Only Tuscany remains for our Spring 2023 series of European LiveAways, most of which has gone very well and was full of fruitful insights for next year's LiveAways.
When I was a travel writer commissioned to write about specific places, my heart would sink when they were about the south coast of England.
This is of course a disgraceful statement, and everyone should condemn me for making it. I’m clearly an idiot.