04 March 2010 by Tristan Gooley
I have just found out what my plans for Sunday are, and they do not involve roast lunches, watching Narnia for the sixty-second time or trying to get our remaining stash of slightly green logs to burn.
At 2 o’ clock I am being interviewed by Adrian Phillips from Bradt Travel Guides at the Destinations Travel and Holiday Show in Birmingham.
Hope to see you there, or if you live a bit south of that (towards the midday sun) then perhaps at the Oxford Literary Festival on Wednesday 24th March? Or could it be that you like the taste of the Atlantic and can be found dreaming of Manderley, in which case I will look forward to our meeting at the Daphne du Maurier Festival on the 19th May.
More times and places – where I will be describing life without a copy of ‘The Natural Navigator’ book as being a meaningless wander – can…
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08 February 2009 by Tristan Gooley
A combination of a low-show on Friday due to bad conditions and the fact that everyone is really getting into the idea of heading off somewhere hot at some point this year gave the Destinations Travel Show a real buzz yesterday.
I gave my talk, ‘The Forgotten Journey’, on behalf of the Royal Geographical Society. The audience clearly had one or two enthusiasts amongst it as the questions were even more interesting and perceptive than usual.
Some of my family live nearby and had threatened to turn up and heckle at the back. One small problem was that they intially headed to the wrong part of Earls Court and only arrived to hear the second half of the talk. There may be a opportunity for some weekend work there, either for me or some sharp Tom-Tom salesman.
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