Catherine Mack – Content manager, editor, copywriter and travel writer
Partnerships are what make sustainable tourism a reality and leading UK based walking and cycling tour operator, Headwater, has demonstrated that sustainability is about creating genuine community agreements. After a year of working closely with over 400 hotels and over 100 agents and local guides, they put have put in place a new and pioneering Sustainability Programme and Charter.
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The audience cheered at the end of Jimmy McLaughlin’s rendition of ‘Dear Old Inishowen’, not only because of his fine a cappella accomplishment but also because he was singing it in McGrory’s front bar in Culdaff, the heart of his dear old Inishowen. He was here because his family was the subject of an Irish television series called Dúshlán 1881 – Living the Eviction, about famine evictions from the nearby village of Carrowmenagh, and they were having a screening in the hotel to celebrate. I was there to explore the wilderness that remains all around this northernmost point of Ireland, travelling with one of a handful of companies offering adventure holidays in Donegal. Right now, however, in this cocoon of Culdaff, my cultural immersion was like an unexpected and delicious appetiser.
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Do you love treehouses ? As someone who spends most of my time away with the birds, I do, and I have had the great pleasure in staying in a Chestnut cherub of a treehouse in Le Perche region of Normandy, which you can read about here. If you also love the idea of sleeping in a tree, please take the time to look at this very exciting new online concept –Roost. Still at its sapling stage, the founders hope to create a movement for those who build tree houses or build tourism outlets around them. For those who not only love to hug trees but also hug in one. The creators would like to know what you think and to see if we can make this idea grow to form a real community in the canopies. So get in touch with them and do please spread the word. Get in contact via their website or on Twitter @roostinatree. I, for one, am raring to Roost.
For more details see Roost
I despair of cool boxes sometimes. They are always blue and boring, usually don’t do the job properly and, ultimately, they just never look cool. So, with a heatwave finally hitting Northern Europe, I decided it was time to celebrate and went in search of something substantial to keep my goodies cool.
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