Au Pairing for the Spanish Elite
It was summer 2021, I had finished my A levels and was officially on my gap year. I had chosen to delay going to university to do an 8-month placement…
Europe
Russo-UK relations over the Ukraine Crisis: stalemates, diplomacy, and war on the Eastern Front?
With Foreign Secretary Liz Truss currently in talks with her Russian counterpart Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov; the question must be asked, can the UK, and the West more broadly, achieve…
Travelling through Europe with Albrecht Dürer at the National Gallery
The National Gallery will soon be opening its doors to welcome travel and art fans to the Albrecht Dürer exhibition, bringing us on an immersive European cultural journey in the…
Travel trailblazers: Gertrude Benham
Meg Luesley discusses the largely forgotten, but nonetheless iconic, life of travel trailblazer Gertrude Benham.
Travelling through my diary
In this instalment of our discussion about imaginative travel, a contributor explores the cathartic importance of travelling retrospectively through their diary.
Imaginative travel: ‘Notes from a Small Island’
Despite ongoing lockdown restrictions and hopes of travel still far from being realised, we are determined not to let hopes dry up. Although we can’t travel in the most traditional…
Post-Brexit travel
After a year-long transition period, the UK left the EU at midnight on 31st December 2020. The 1246-page deal contains a plethora of information, but what will post-Brexit travel look…
The hospitality industry’s over-reliance on single-use plastic
The hospitality industry's over-reliance on single-use plastic has been worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, more than ever, the industry's usage of plastics is in vital need of an overhaul.
Pfizer vaccine provokes a surge of hope for the European travel industry
Just four days after the enforcement of lockdown 2.0, Pfizer and BioNTech announced a coronavirus vaccine. The announcement saw an immediate and drastic surge in European travel stocks, but many…
A Message in a Bottle
"Sitting at the top of the shore was a clear plastic bottle containing a rolled up piece of paper with sellotape wrapped intensely around the screw-top. I had just found…