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Chalkmarks picture wins The Sunday Times Big Shot competition!

Tuk a ride on the Pan-American Highway

My Best Shot: Kyoto, Japan

What a Discovery! Life onboard a Tui cruise ship

Zoom in: Hanoi, Vietnam

Chalkmarks success in London lockdown photo contest

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Double bubble: couples whose weddings fell victim to lockdown are now splashing out on two honeymoons

NEWLYWEDS whose big day was curtailed by the coronavirus pandemic splurge on expensive “double honeymoons”.

15 September 2020

Chalkmarks success in London lockdown photo contest

CUE the drum roll! Yes. It's success for Chalkmarks in the #BecauseImALondoner photo competition.

1 September 2020

Let London be your lockdown lifesaver

WITH staycations the most reliable holiday this year, this the perfect time to visit London.

14 August 2020

Global travel will not recover until 2022 – in the best case scenario

THE TRAVEL industry will take at least two years to get back to 2019 levels experts warn today.

13 August 2020

Finnair flies through three years worth of refunds in three months

FINNAIR says it was hit by an unprecedented 300,000 refunds – the equivalent of three years requests in three months.

15 July 2020

Make recovery the story! How the travel industry can win back tourists

EVERYONE wants a holiday right now and the tourism industry is desperate for the financial boost.

13 July 2020

‘Boring spa services are over’: Health and wellness needs to shape up

THINK gin and tonic yoga! Times are changing. No longer do we want just massages, facials and nail treatments.

25 June 2020

Holidays that heal: Super rich get ready to splash out on a wellcation after lockdown

WELLNESS retreats are tempting luxury travellers as the coronavirus lockdown eases this summer.

24 June 2020

September 2020

Staycation UK

Why Edinburgh is scarily good for a city break
DOWN the narrow stone steps and into Edinburgh’s dark and damp vaults. I look around. There’s nothing to see. No one.

Burn on the beach: Why North Devon is perfect for a week of exercise and diet
I CAN’T run up there, I squeaked. No one mentioned anything about having to sprint up a vertical sand dune.

A trilogy of tartan treats in Aberdeen
FOR a moment I lose myself. I am drinking Scotch straight from the cask. All of a sudden comes a roar of fire.

The world on a plate in Soho
WHAT if you had just one night in London and you didn’t want to waste time? That’s where Eating London Tours comes in.

Published articles

Mail on Sunday

You’ve had Champagne, tasted Prosecco, tried Cava, now who’s for a Crémant?
IT’S the fabulous festive fizz from France that’s about to burst the prosecco bubble.

Daily Express

Experience Denmark’s second city, Aarhus
DESPITE those Scandi-noir sagas and Sarah Lund jumpers, Denmark has been voted the happiest place on the planet.

The Guardian

Living in Lima
AFTER backpacking around Peru Natalie Chalk is hooked but finds teaching English in Lima to be full of surprises.

TNT Magazine

The challenge of my life Cycling through Umbria
THE words ‘bike’ and ‘holiday’ are not two that I would ever put together, but here I am with my ‘go as fast as I dare’.