Monthly Archives: February 2012

New Zealand’s One-Level Wonders

If the home of an Englishman is his castle, then New Zealanders must have far less grand aspirations. Having been born and raised in Bath – a city built for show, with houses to match – the pastel-coloured, one-storey wooden structures that made up every small town and village I drove through on a recent

Storified: our Costa Alentejana visit

In a new social-media initiative, we have collated the digital results of a recent visit by Sue, Anthony and Mika to the Costa Alentejana, in the unexplored Portuguese region of Alentejo, using Storify. Storify is a clever new platform which allows users to spin narratives or plot timelines by curating tweets, Facebook updates and pictures,

Prague’s scariest museum?

Some say Prague is the most haunted city in Europe. Our Account Manager, Steph Reed, certainly thinks so. On a recent solo trip to Prague, as the night sky arrived and the winter chill started to hurt my face, I was encouraged to head indoors to a cosy museum.  As I went on a museum

Storifying the Alentejo

Continuing our innovative social media work, Travel PR will be documenting its latest overseas visit via the means of Storify. Between 9-12 February, Sue, Mika and Anthony will be exploring Portugal’s uncharted Alentejo region.  Updates on the trip, delivered through Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Instagram and YouTube, will be neatly collated on a Storify story called

Staggering school holidays – an invitation to the Government to act

Guest blog by Simon Tregoning, Chairman of Classic Cottages Tourism and schools are subjects upon which most of us feel able to offer an opinion because we all went to school and most of us go on holiday. So, putting the two together, it is easy to understand the temptation faced by Government ministers to

Saint who?

Travel on the Paris Metro and you will find a network inundated with names of people -some famous (Emile Zola, Victor Hugo, Franklin D. Roosevelt), some not (Etienne Marcel, Richard Lenoir, Louise Michel) – and a huge number of Saints: Michel, Sulpice, Placide, Ambroise… to quote but a few. This got me thinking about Travel