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  • Turf Houses: Iceland’s Original ‘Green’ Buildings – Feature for the BBC October 30, 2022
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  • Scotland and its Whisky: A First Taste – Article for Lonely Planet August 19, 2022
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Holidays Fuelled By Nostalgia
July 22, 2019 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Culinary Travel

Holidays Fuelled By Nostalgia

When, once we get a little older, we travel, do we do so to seek out the new or to […]

The Viennese Cafes That Force You to Talk to Strangers – Article for Adventure.com
July 2, 2019 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Articles

The Viennese Cafes That Force You to Talk to Strangers – Article for Adventure.com

As a coffee addict, I adore Vienna’s coffeehouses. Not because of the coffee necessarily. But because of the environment. They […]

Small Country, Big Hike – Feature on Liechtenstein for N by Norwegian’s Adventure Issue!
June 13, 2019 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Adventure Travel

Small Country, Big Hike – Feature on Liechtenstein for N by Norwegian’s Adventure Issue!

A lot of you might have already seen this feature, given Norwegian’s increasingly vast network these days. June is their […]

Inverclyde’s Radical Rejuvenation: Can this Scottish Port Become the UK’s Top Cruise Hub? – Article for the Telegraph
June 5, 2019 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Articles

Inverclyde’s Radical Rejuvenation: Can this Scottish Port Become the UK’s Top Cruise Hub? – Article for the Telegraph

The River Clyde. Long synonymous with either the boom of industry – or the death of it, and the deprivation […]

LATA Latin American Travel Writer of the Year Winner!
May 16, 2019 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Adventure Travel

LATA Latin American Travel Writer of the Year Winner!

Was a huge, huge honour on Tuesday night to pick up the LATA Latin American Travel Writer of the Year […]

On Welsh Craft Brews…
May 8, 2019 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Articles

On Welsh Craft Brews…

Scotland has its whisky and Ireland has Poitín. But on some beery research for the Welsh food and drink quarterly […]

The Best Hikes in Wales (That Aren’t Snowdon) – Article for Rough Guides
April 20, 2019 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Adventure Travel

The Best Hikes in Wales (That Aren’t Snowdon) – Article for Rough Guides

I realise I never posted this piece on Wales’ best non-Snowdon hikes, but as it was originally published for the […]

Booming Blaenau: The Welsh Mining Town Transforming Itself into an Adventure Hotspot – Article for Adventure.com
April 17, 2019 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Adventure Travel

Booming Blaenau: The Welsh Mining Town Transforming Itself into an Adventure Hotspot – Article for Adventure.com

  The other week, whilst elsewhere in the country people were enjoying a spot of sunshine, I spent some time […]

Out on a High: Exploring Slovakia’s High Tatras – Article for Lonely Planet
April 16, 2019 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Adventure Travel

Out on a High: Exploring Slovakia’s High Tatras – Article for Lonely Planet

Mountains. I get a nostalgic dewy-eyed gleam to my eyes just thinking about them: those I have visited and those […]

Journeys – Talk at the Professional Women’s Business Association, Cardiff, February 28
February 15, 2019 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Fiction

Journeys – Talk at the Professional Women’s Business Association, Cardiff, February 28

A rearrangement! I was due to give this talk in January 2018 but for a couple of reasons it has […]

Latin America in the Extreme: My Top Adventure Travel Articles for Kimkim
January 30, 2019 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Adventure Travel

Latin America in the Extreme: My Top Adventure Travel Articles for Kimkim

Over the last year or so I’ve been doing a lot of work with leading adventure travel operators Kimkim to […]

Castle Combe & the Cotswolds – Feature for Which?
January 28, 2019 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Luxury Travel

Castle Combe & the Cotswolds – Feature for Which?

Oh, the Cotswolds, that Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, where the honey-coloured sandstone houses line quaint village streets that could […]

Is This Peru’s Next Inca Trail? – Article for Adventure.com
January 7, 2019 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Adventure Travel

Is This Peru’s Next Inca Trail? – Article for Adventure.com

Happy 2019. When people ask me what my 2018 highlight was travel-wise, the hike to Choquequirao, billed as Peru’s Next […]

Cruise control – my Latest Articles for the Telegraph
December 18, 2018 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Eastern Europe Travel

Cruise control – my Latest Articles for the Telegraph

No one ever really thought cruises would become as big a thing as they have in Britain of all places, […]

2018 (Through My Latest Reference Books, from Puerto Rican beaches to Peruvian train rides to the Welsh coffee scene!)
December 2, 2018 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Adventure Travel

2018 (Through My Latest Reference Books, from Puerto Rican beaches to Peruvian train rides to the Welsh coffee scene!)

And there it was, 2018, passed by in a flash! Passed by so speedily, in fact, that I haven’t even […]

How Tough Can Britain’s Toughest Trail Be? – Article for Adventure.com
September 17, 2018 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Adventure Travel

How Tough Can Britain’s Toughest Trail Be? – Article for Adventure.com

There were a spate of late Victorian adventurers, Henry Savage Landor springing to mind, who were not content with seeking […]

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