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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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If only you knew: Sicily

THIS is the largest island in the Mediterranean and the biggest region in Italy. It's also home to many of Europe’s volcanoes!

1 May 2020

A tiny island not to be sniffed at!

VULCANO! How can it look so beautiful but smell so bad?

29 April 2020

Golf buggies for all on Isla Mujeres!

DON’T stop me now, I’m having such a good time, I’m on a golf buggy. I’m having a ball. Weeeeeeeeee!

28 April 2020

Superfood sea snacks from St Gilles

I'LL have the sea spaghetti followed by the seaweed tartare, s’il vous plaît. This is superfood French gastronomy.

27 April 2020

Coronavirus: Brits set sights on Christmas getaways

WITH summer holidays on hold more families than ever could be planning a Christmas getaway this year.

26 April 2020

How Kangaroo Island is recovering after the bushfires

JUST a few months on from the fierce wildfires, the landscape is turning green and the animals are thriving.

23 March 2020

Ancient Athens

LIKE A Greek myth, the city of Athens draws you in. Natalie Chalk went to find out where it all began.

19 March 2020

Valentine’s Day surprise for AEGEAN passengers as airline’s new A320neo takes to the skies

AEGEAN Airlines' newest plane, the A320neo has been unwrapped at a glittering aircraft-hanger ceremony in Athens.

14 February 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’.