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Mike MacEacheran
@mikemaceacheran.bsky.social
Travel journalist: BBC, Nat Geo, Times, Telegraph, Guardian, FT, CN Traveller, Lonely Planet, Indy, WaPo, T&L, Wanderlust, Afar, WSJ, Bloomberg, GEO, Which? mike.maceacheran@gmail.com / mikemaceacheran.com
Silvesterklaus: the absurd New Year’s tradition nowhere else can match. 👺 Happy New Year from #Appenzellerland everyone 🇨🇭 @myswitzerland.bsky.social #Switzerland
Christmas party for one this afternoon, just me and my sticky toffee pud. But, hey, what happens at a me party, stays at a me party... Merry Christmas all! #freelancer #travel #meparty 🎉
It's been a wild ride in travel writing this year... 17 overseas trips, including 🇫🇴🇵🇪🇱🇹🇨🇦🇺🇸🇨🇭🇩🇪 🇦🇹🇫🇷🇳🇱 10 home trips 🏴 So, a heartfelt thanks to the PRs, tourist boards, writers & editors who continue to make it possible for me to have the world's best job. Merry Xmas everyone!🎄
I like to moove it moove it: here's a story about An Uiseag 9th of Eileanmore and Banarach Ban of Achinreir, part of the world's only Highland cow ice cream herd, for my new road trip feature around sustainable #Argyll and the #Highlands for natgeo.com/travel #coosday #travel #Scotland
It's been a wild ride in travel writing this year... 17 overseas trips, including 🇫🇴🇵🇪🇱🇹🇨🇦🇺🇸🇨🇭🇩🇪 🇦🇹🇫🇷🇳🇱 10 home trips 🏴 So, a heartfelt thanks to the PRs, tourist boards, writers & editors who continue to make it possible for me to have the world's best job. Merry Xmas everyone!🎄
🚨 Sloth news! This three-toed mum and newborn held the same yoga pose for about an hour this morning. Another little bit of Amazon magic from life in the slow lane. 🦥
Jaw ready for this? Picked up a rod, went fishing, used chicken as bait, hooked a piranha in seconds, may have shrieked a bit. Mortimer & Whitehouse ain’t got nothing on me. 🎣
I’m now in the Amazon (the WiFi is better than at home in Scotland) and in 24hrs I’ve met a shamanistic healer, sampled psychoactive ayahuasca, done the rounds with a rainforest GP and gone to school. #Peru
St Pierre and Miquelon? I wasn’t exactly sure where it was either. So I went for The Telegraph and loved it (it’s off the coast of #Newfoundland, by the way). www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/desti...
The curious North American islands which still belong to France
Our writer explores the French archipelago of St Pierre and Miquelon which sits off Newfoundland
telegraph.co.uk
I went to the Faroe Islands for the first time for The Times. Unquestionably, it was the #travel highlight of the year (I wasn’t too happy about eating dried whale though). #travel #Faroes 🇫🇴 www.thetimes.com/travel/inspi...
Europe’s most magical capital — that you’ve never heard of
A new, direct flight is your ticket to tiny Torshavn and its enchanting landscapes of heart-stopping fjords, cinematic waterfalls and fortress-like islands
thetimes.com
Another one for The Guardian: writing about two sublime hideaways in the Alps for this winter ❄️ #France #Switzerland www.theguardian.com/travel/2024/...
Six of the best winter mountain breaks in Europe
From the Arctic Circle to Slovenia’s Julian Alps, we pick scenic and soothing retreats to don snowshoes, ski empty pistes and tune into winter
theguardian.com
I’m a big fan of #Austria (give me a schnitzel and Stiegl and I’m in heaven), so it was a thrill to round-up all the best ski resorts for National Geographic Traveller 🎿 www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/artic...
The best ski areas in Austria this season
Austria’s mix of beginner slopes, black runs and mountainside culture works for all — from fun-seeking families to hardcore off-pisters.
nationalgeographic.com
I used every pork pun I could get my trotters on for this piece about a trip to the Peppa Pig theme park in #Germany for The Times. I was happy as a pig in shit, naturally. 🐷 www.thetimes.com/travel/desti...
Our fun-filled German holiday … to the new Peppa Pig theme park
This new attraction in Günzburg, southern Bavaria, is a dream for children (and their parents), says Mike MacEacheran
thetimes.com
What else? There’s this on Scotland’s unknown Stonehenge for BBC Travel (and I’d really urge you to go). #Scotland #travel www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
The unknown story of Scotland's 'Stonehenge'
Forgotten for centuries, Kilmartin Glen in Argyll is one of Britain's most important archaeological landscapes – but most people have never heard of it.
bbc.com
I cycled 275km across #Brittany and #Normandy for The Guardian in this travel piece. I ate galettes, drank cider and got a ridiculously sore arse. #France #travel 🚴♂️ www.theguardian.com/travel/artic...
Tour de France: the new cycle route from Nantes to Mont-Saint-Michel
La Régalante is a 170-mile cycle network linking historic villages, windmills and abbeys in less-visited parts of Brittany and the Atlantic Loire, with pitstops at lovely bars and B&Bs
theguardian.com
Another one for National Geographic, but this time on joining a moose-calling safari in Maine’s Great North Woods. Moose have four stomachs, if you didn’t know. 🫎 #travel #Maine www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/artic...
What it's like to go on a moose safari in Maine's Great North Woods
Maine’s Great North Woods is one of the best spots in the country to catch sight of the world’s largest deer species, making for a majestic wildlife safari.
nationalgeographic.com
Scotland is the ultimate #travel destination if you ask me, so this recent piece for The Times gave me a great opportunity to revisit my many trips to #Orkney #Scotland 🏴 www.thetimes.com/travel/desti...
How to do the Orkney islands — as seen in The Outrun
The Scottish islands are the true star of Saoirse Ronan’s critically acclaimed new film. Here’s how to explore their wild drama
thetimes.com
Here’s the kind of story I love writing about. A piece for BBC Travel on a Shangri-La sort of hotel tucked away in #Switzerland www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
The Swiss hotel cut off from the world for 12 hours a day
While Switzerland is full of Alpine huts and hard-to-reach hotels, Alp Grüm is a mountain anomaly like no other.
bbc.com
I’ve been up to loads in the last few months, so thought it a good idea to share some bits, bobs and #travel highlights. First up, there’s this piece on travelling the length of #California by train for National Geographic 🚞 www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/artic...
What it's like to travel along the West Coast on a train
One of the most beautiful train journeys in the US, the Coast Starlight’s route unspools along the Pacific Ocean from Los Angeles via Sacramento to Seattle. With miles of coastline, towering mountain ...
nationalgeographic.com
Things are about to get really exciting now. Off for a week long misadventure in the Amazon. 🇵🇪
Hullo, new world. I travel to lots of places and I write about them. I live in Edinburgh, I’m from Glasgow. I love mountains, adventures, records and beer. Let’s make friends 🤝