Look no further for news, views, reviews, water bottles and wise words of wisdom. Whether it’s a short stroll or intrepid trek you’re planning, here's all the walking information you could ever need.
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Welcome to Stanfords' online travel magazine - packed with information, top tips and tales, industry insights and news. And it's a place for you to get involved too - add your opinion in the comments fields found at the bottom of every article - from our travel reviews to blogs written by Stanfords' staff, bestselling authors and other travel experts.
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Features
Find your green potential with our inspiring eco-travel tales, news, and our environmentally friendly blogs, guides and books. Find out how you can help save the planet, even while you travel.
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Beat the credit crunch with our helpful articles and top tips on how to travel on a budget and how to buy cheap flights online. And for a little fun, read our own experiences of travelling on a shoestring…
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Hop the Channel with your family and explore France to the full: cycle it, walk it, sail it, or just play, kick back and relax. We’ve been there, and we brought our kids along. Follow us.
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What better way to get a real feel of London and its different areas than to simply wander the streets? Explore the city with our tips, guides and reviews.
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The USA's massive landmass makes it a perfect destination for road trips. Here at Stanfords, we have plenty of useful books and maps, as well as first-hand travel tips and reviews…
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From the Galapagos Islands to the wilds of Scotland, through Darwin and Lyell, and from spotting rare birds to endangered animals or identifying plants, explore the natural world with us...
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Travel articles
Five minutes; five questions with… Simon Calder
It’s been a while since our last interview with the intrepid travel editor and broadcaster, so we caught up with Simon while he was shooting his latest travel film in our Covent Garden store.
Walk of the month: Southstoke and Cam Valley, Somerset
The houses of Southstoke, built of the same pale silver and cream oolitic limestone as their Big Brother city of Bath just over the hill, were lightly dusted with powder snow on this cold winter’s morning.
Returning to the Auvergne
Eight years ago, I spent a year in Le Puy-en-Velay, a small, historic city in the south of the volcanic Auvergne region, deep in the heart of rural France – la France profonde, as they say... Having never written about it at the time, I return to it now...
London Delhi by Road is a charity event that my wife Pooja and I are doing in April 2010. We will kick off the drive from London, travel through 15 countries and aim to reach New Delhi, India in approximately seven weeks.
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