Stanisław Witkiewicz’s Carpathian style architecture

There is a peculiar beauty to buildings created out of wood. The town of Zakopane in southern Poland is a good spot to reflect on such architecture. This is largely thanks to architect and designer Stanisław Witkiewicz who designed many…

Colonial splendour on the streets of Yangon, Myanmar

Everywhere you turn in downtown Yangon you’ll find a crumbling government office or huge commercial building dating back to the beginning of the 20th century.

Stuttgart’s Schweine Museum: the world’s largest pig museum

If you’re going to open a museum to house a collection of pig-related artefacts then the site of a former slaughterhouse is a good a place as any. The Schweine Museum (Pig Museum) in Stuttgart hosts around 50,000 porcine…

Life returns to the Caves of Matera

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Members News: Summer 2015

ISSUED BY THE BRITISH GUILD OF TRAVEL WRITERS

Issue №50; August 2015

CHAIRMAN’S MESSAGE

This has been an exciting, productive and fun-filled spring/summer season for the 270-member British Guild of Travel…

Religion in Estonia

The excitement among the mainly Polish congregation at the Catholic Church of St Peter and Paul in Tallin on Sunday 27 April 2014 was palpable.

Their beloved Karol Wojtylo, John Paul ll, was being canonized in distant Rome. There could hardly be a better reason to…

Estonia’s museums: getting interactive

Estonia, it seemed to me during a recent visit, must have more museums per head of population than any other country in the world. They range from collections of…

How to break into travel writing

Why did I want to write a book? To be honest, I didn’t.

Travel features are what I do but when someone asks you for a book, you don’t say no. Barely a whiff of interest and before a full proposal was sent, the contract was in the post. Life moves…