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Posted by Catherine Mack at 09:54 on Wednesday 17 March 2010
Happy St. Patrick's Day to all greentraveller readers and, if you haven't travelled to Ireland yet, I hope that as an Irish writer and co-editor of the website, I can do my little bit towards enticing you to the truly Emerald Isle. We have many... more...
Posted by Catherine Mack at 08:38 on Wednesday 17 March 2010
Like most fellow Irish people at this time of year, I was recently musing over my St. Patrick’s Day break (traditionally a long walk and a get together with good friends and a few pints), when an invitation to a knitting weekend landed on my doormat... more...
Posted by Jeremy Smith at 08:15 on Wednesday 17 March 2010
Often the hardest thing about a walk is getting started. Take too long admiring the view from Tawny Lust, especially if you’ve come for a break from a... more...
Posted by Catherine Mack at 09:37 on Tuesday 16 March 2010
They say the camera never lies and the website photos of these designer wooden lodges, tucked into the Yorkshire Dales like birds nests were, indeed, enough to make my jaw drop. As we approached along an almost deserted road in one of England’s... more...
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Posted by Catherine Mack at 03:05 on Monday 15 March 2010
The ninth annual Herefordshire Walking Festival is scheduled to take place between Saturday, 19 June and Sunday, 27 June.As in previous years, the 2010 programme of walks will offer walkers of all levels the chance to don their boots and... more...
Posted by Anouk van den Eijnde at 05:23 on Thursday 11 March 2010
Holidays aren't just about kicking back on a beach anymore. These days, there's a big trend for self-improvement, from yoga retreats in Tuscany and cooking lessons in the Loire to photography holidays in Scotland... and of course, WWOOFING (... more...
Posted by Philippa Jacks at 07:36 on Monday 08 March 2010
The Champagne-Ardennes region of France is making it even easier to holiday there by bicycle.The tourist board has set out a list of criteria that guest houses, campsites, and hotels must meet in order to gain a 'La Champagne a Velo' or 'Les... more...
Posted by Catherine Mack at 12:01 on Sunday 07 March 2010
The Knoydart Peninsula, west coast of Scotland, photo: Richard Hammond Choosing not to go abroad for your holidays can have some obivous environmental benefits, not least the... more...
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Posted by Catherine Mack at 11:24 on Thursday 04 March 2010
Charles Plunkett, who manages this estate on behalf of The Duke of Abercorn, has done a green and good thing. He replaced an oil burning boiler, with running costs of £22,000 a year for the castle alone, with a state-of-the-art wood pellet... more...
Posted by Richard Hammond at 03:25 on Monday 01 March 2010
Mountain Living Residence Hotel Lagació, photo Tim Martin/ green traveller.co.ukWhat can beat the exhilaration of downhill skiing, the crisp alpine air, the vast mountain panoramas and the... more...
Posted by Lucy Bruzzone at 02:16 on Monday 01 March 2010
How to get to the DolomitesTravelling to the Dolomites overland has never been easier with numerous companies now offering direct transfers from a number... more...
Posted by Catherine Mack at 11:37 on Monday 01 March 2010
Ireland has plenty of ferry services to and from Scotland, Wales and England... and indeed France, many of which link in with bus and rail services. I am Irish, based in London, and... more...
Posted by Richard Hammond at 01:20 on Saturday 01 March 2008
Four of the best treehouse holidays in Europe:
Brittany
Here’s one for the kids. A series of new tree houses are available to hire at three of Keycamp’s family-friendly French campsites – at Carnac and Dol-de-Bretagne in Brittany and at La... more...
Posted by Richard Hammond at 06:18 on Tuesday 19 September 2006
Swinging in a hammock 30ft up, surrounded by oak trees, the wind was whistling through the leaves… I was staying in one of four treehouses at Orion B... more...
Posted by Richard Hammond at 10:23 on Wednesday 18 July 2007
Yurt camps have been springing up all over Europe – in Spain, France, even on Bodmin Moor – and are fast becoming the preferred pad for luxury campers. They’re waterproof, big enough to house a four-poster bed as well as a wood stove to keep... more...
Posted by Richard Hammond at 01:39 on Saturday 30 December 2006
The Highlands provide a much more stirring and dramatic scene on a dark, forbidding day than they do in bright sunshine. Standing at the top of Carn Dearg, a 3,394ft Munro on Rannoch Moor in the southern Highlands, dark clouds threatened a downpour... more...
Posted by Richard Hammond at 01:49 on Monday 29 May 2006
So hip it yurts…
A luxury hand-crafted tent with a king-sized bed – it’s camping but not as we know it in the Ardeche
There’s more to camping than roll mats and sleeping bags. At a new luxury campsite in the south of... more...
Posted by Richard Hammond at 10:15 on Monday 11 December 2006
The Bristol Channel is no riviera, but puffins, seals and basking sharks have all been spotted at England’s only marine nature reserve, just two hours by boat from north Devon. Lundy Island is managed by the Landmark Trust, which has restored... more...
Posted by Richard Hammond at 09:29 on Saturday 03 November 2007
Greg Stevenson is something of a local celebrity in Wales. An architectural historian by training, the fifth series of his S4C TV show Y Ty Cymreig (The Welsh House) is currently being filmed; he is author of the first coffee-table book on Welsh... more...
Posted by Richard Hammond at 06:25 on Sunday 01 July 2007
Blue Reef Cottages, Isle of Harris
Overlooking a vast sandy beach, these two remote cottages (each sleeping two) are rated five-star by the Scottish Tourist Board. Open the door to find a hamper of local produce (black pudding, jam and shortcake)... more...
Posted by Richard Hammond at 10:47 on Monday 12 February 2007
Yurt camps epitomise the fashion for cool camping, yet some are little more than glorified tents plonked in a spare field. Not so at La Huerta Yurts, which is about as remote as a modern yurt camp could be – tucked away by a river in a... more...
Posted by Richard Hammond at 01:01 on Saturday 17 February 2007
10 eco-friendly hideaways you can reach without flying…
1. Bryn Elltyd Guesthouse, North Wales (pictured left)
Leave Euston train station just before 4pm and you’ll be sitting down to dinner at 8.30pm in the heart of Snowdonia. This... more...
Posted by Richard Hammond at 08:25 on Monday 15 January 2007
Timeshares may have had their heyday, but the concept is proving to be a hit in Cornwall as a greener alternative to buying up little-used holiday homes. Trelowarren is on a large woodland estate near Helston on the south coast’s Lizard... more...
Posted by Richard Hammond at 02:00 on Tuesday 27 June 2006
Yurt lovers who find the 9,000-mile round trip to outer Mongolia a little hard on the wallet can now stay in a traditional Mongolian camp closer to home. The Hoopoe Yurt Hotel is a new yurt camp in the Grazalema mountain range to the south of Ronda... more...
Posted by Richard Hammond at 06:25 on Sunday 01 July 2007
Blue Reef Cottages, Isle of Harris
Overlooking a vast sandy beach, these two remote cottages (each sleeping two) are rated five-star by the Scottish Tourist Board. Open the door to find a hamper of local produce (black pudding, jam and shortcake)... more...
Posted by Richard Hammond at 11:48 on Saturday 25 August 2007
As a third series of Tribe gets underway, Bruce Parry and his crew describe their personal highlights from their latest extreme adventures, and GreenTraveller’s Richard Hammond gives tips on how you can have a similar experience with a... more...
Posted by Richard Hammond at 10:15 on Saturday 20 October 2007
Ten eco-friendly winter activities, from skiing without leaving the UK to snow shoeing in the French Pyrenees…
1. Take the train
Not only is travelling by train to the Alps much greener than flying, it’s also a lot less hassle if you... more...
Posted by Richard Hammond at 01:01 on Saturday 17 February 2007
10 eco-friendly hideaways you can reach without flying…
1. Bryn Elltyd Guesthouse, North Wales (pictured left)
Leave Euston train station just before 4pm and you’ll be sitting down to dinner at 8.30pm in the heart of Snowdonia. This... more...
Posted by Richard Hammond at 03:34 on Wednesday 28 March 2007
As green travel has become big business it has sparked a rise in faux ecotourism, or ‘greenwashing’, GreenTraveller’s Richard Hammond reports on the eco travel schemes to trust…
“You have to see it to Belize it... more...
Posted by Richard Hammond at 12:07 on Saturday 31 March 2007
Richard Hammond reports on a new guide to 'responsible escapism' in the UK...It's seemingly easier to find an eco lodge in east Africa than it is to source environmentally friendly places to stay in our own back yard. Not because of a lack of all... more...
Posted by Richard Hammond at 06:19 on Saturday 22 July 2006
A new walking holiday in the Indian Himalayas is offering the chance to experience life in traditional mountain villages while exploring the foothills of the spectacular mountain range. From October, Village Ways is offering “village to... more...
Posted by Richard Hammond at 11:30 on Saturday 03 February 2007
Camping and caravanning have long enjoyed a close association, yet while there is little doubt that camping is low impact, should caravanning be considered in the same green light?...
Towing a caravan halfway across the country can reduce a car... more...
Posted by Richard Hammond at 02:12 on Monday 14 May 2007
The Sunday Times travel guru Mark Hodson picks the best websites and guidebooks for green travellers. Marks says that there are so many travel companies now claiming ‘green’ credentials, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to cut... more...
Posted by Richard Hammond at 04:09 on Friday 14 December 2007
A new travel club for the upmarket eco traveller has launched.
The Nature & Kind Travel Collection describes itself as a “direct booking solution and travel club for discerning travellers who enjoy living healthy, adventurous and fulfilling... more...
Posted by Catherine Mack at 01:15 on Wednesday 28 October 2009
How do you make a group of greenies see red? Ask them how they feel about certification. At The Travel Foundation‘s Forum meeting last week, entitled ‘Be seen to be green – Can certification work for you?’, it felt very much as if, for... more...
Posted by Richard Hammond at 05:49 on Saturday 18 November 2006
The ski train to Bourg St Maurice isn’t the only option for train travel to the slopes. For a more DIY low-emissions trip to the Italian Alps, take the 9.09am Eurostar to Paris, then change for the direct high-speed TGV to Turin’s Porta... more...
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