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Travel and holidays in Later Life provides:

A Comprehensive Travel Guide

Edited by award winning travel writer, broadcaster and photographer Hugh Taylor who has now taken over from our travel writer of many years Reg Butler.          Covering:

UK & IRELAND
CONTINENTAL EUROPE
LONG-HAUL
TRAVEL TOPICS

NEW ADDITIONS

and
Travel Options and Travel Offers

Including both traditional and more unusual breaks, holidays and travel options geared to our interests in later life. Choose from:

 

Cruises

Escorted Holidays

Worldwide

UK, Ireland and Europe

Holidays with a difference

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Travel and Holidays in laterlife edited by  award winning travel writer, broadcaster and photographer Hugh Taylor. 

                       

Travel and Holidays in laterlife aims to be a comprehensive guide to a wide variety of holiday cities and regions through-out the UK, continental Europe and to many long-haul destinations in Asia, Africa and the Americas.

View in Spanish countrysideIn each case, Hugh draws upon his extensive experience to provide a personalized over-50s view of each destination. The essence is to capture the flavour of the location, so it's easy to decide "Is that for me?"

   

Lands EndEach page follows a standard format (see below) to make it easy to find the information you want. In addition each page provides a link to the holiday offers section.

Meet Hugh Taylor below and then take a look at his  laterlife Travel and Holidays index.

 

An introduction to Travel and Holidays in laterlife

Travel and Holidays in laterlife is edited by award winning travel writer, broadcaster and photographer Hugh Taylor.

Travel and Holidays in laterlife aims to be a comprehensive guide to a wide variety of holiday cities and regions through-out the UK, Europe and to many long-haul destinations in Asia, Africa and the Americas.

In each case, Hugh draws upon his extensive experience to provide a personalized over-50s view of each destination. The essence is to capture the flavour of the location, so it's easy to decide "Is that for me?"

Each page follows a standard format (see below) to make it easy to find the information you want. In addition each page provides a link to the holiday offers section.

Meet Hugh Taylor below and then take a look at the laterlife Travel and Holidays index

Hugh Taylor is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, the Society of Antiquaries (Scotland) and a member of the British Guild of Travel Writers, Writers and Photographers Unlimited, Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild, The Society of Authors and the National Union of Journalists.

Spanish ChurchHis extensive broadcast experience includes writing, producing and presenting ‘Pinkerton’ (a documentary on the founding of the Pinkerton Detective Agency) for BBC Radio Scotland and producing several specialist music/travel series for BBC Radio 2.

With his wife, Moira McCrossan, he has written, or contributed to, over forty travel guide books including the best selling AA Spiral Guide to Scotland which has been translated into several languages. Their latest guidebook, Globetrotter Jordan, was published in November 2007.  Globetrotter Best of Cancun and Yucatan is due for publication in 2008.

His travel features have appeared in a wide variety of newspapers and magazines in the UK and abroad including Choice, Real Holidays, The Lady, Scots Magazine and Interval World.

He is currently City Expert on Cancun, Cozumel and Mayan Riviera for www.homeandabroad.com and tutor on the NUJ Travel Writing course.

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In this Guide to travel and holidays in laterlife, be guided by Hugh, who gives you an over-50s view-point on the pleasures of worldwide travel.

To take a look at the sections that are of most interest visit the

laterlife Travel and Holidays index.

WHAT YOU WILL FIND ON EACH PAGE

On each destination page, the main text describes what each location can offer the over-50 traveller. The Travel Facts panel lists out key information details such as Coming Events, Health, age-related discounts etc.

Advance reading about a destination enhances the on-the- spot enjoyment. We recommend a few selected books for each location. Most of the books are available from Amazon at discounts between 10 and 30 percent off the list price. Just click on the hyperlink, or on a picture of the book jacket.


 

Special holiday packages designed to be of interest to over 50s

Just visit our  holidays, breaks and travel options page.


 

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