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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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How hotels can put travellers anxieties to bed!

BEDS are the biggest concern for travellers when it comes to hotels reopening this summer.

12 June 2020

Forget heading into the great outdoors: Holidaymakers are booking cruises and trips to Vegas!

SO MUCH for getting back to nature. The real holiday winners are Las Vegas and cruise companies.

11 June 2020

Why luxury travel will be the first to recover from the coronavirus: insiders tell all …

LUXURY holidays will be the first to get booked up as they already offer socially distancing and exclusivity.

5 June 2020

What came first the coffee or the egg?

SO WOW: this is egg coffee. I’d dropped into the legendary Café Giang in Hanoi to try this iconic brew from where it was born.

25 May 2020

Coronavirus latest: Don’t count on a vaccine, warns top scientist

PEOPLE shouldn’t count on a coronavirus vaccine any time soon - despite what politicians say - a top scientist warns.

20 May 2020

Government has the trust of the public for now…

DESPITE growing criticism of the Government’s handling of the coronavirus crisis, trust in it is as a record 20 year high.

14 May 2020

“Essential exercise” on memorial to war dead

YOUNG couple perform hip thrusts and arm dips oblivious to the fact their makeshift gym is a national war graves memorial.

7 May 2020

The journey to Auschwitz

YOU’D think we would’ve stepped off the bus in silence. But we didn’t. People were asking for the toilets. They wanted coffee.

5 May 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’.