Liz Gill

Nov 21, 2024 | thetravelmagazine.net | Liz Gill

Nov 21, 2024 | thetravelmagazine.net | Liz Gill

At first sight they all look the same: grey, ghostly, rank upon rank, 3,000 of them stretching away shoulder to shouder across an area two football pitches in size. But look more closely and you start to spot the differences - a moustache here, a half smile there, wider mouths, higher cheekbones, broader foreheads. It is not just the sheer number of terracotta warriors that is so astonishing but the fact that they are all individuals.

Nov 21, 2024 | thetravelmagazine.net | Liz Gill |Rupert Parker |Sharron Livingston |Lucy Woods

Jun 15, 2024 | thesun.co.uk | Liz Gill |Stephanie Chase

MORE than a million holidaymakers a year pass through Harwich but most barely give the Essex town a sideways glance as their ferry sails out towards the Hook of Holland. But it was a voyage from here 400 years ago that could be said to have changed the course of ­history. The ship was the ­Mayflower and it was built in Harwich by Captain Christopher Jones, who then risked life and limb to carry his passengers across the Atlantic.

Aug 4, 2023 | thetravelmagazine.net | Liz Gill

1 Adventurer Bear Grylls has just bought a chalet there. James Blunt already owns one. Richard Branson’s is both a home and a swanky hotel. It is where royals and celebrities have swished down the slopes during the day and partied during the night. In other words, Verbier is a place for the rich – expensive and exclusive. That may be the case in winter but once the snow has melted a very different Verbier emerges.