August E-Zine
Welcome to the St Christopher's E-zine
Editor's Note - August 2009
This month Europe is awash with festivals and cultural celebrations aplenty, so roll up for your fast track guides to all that’s fun ‐ in and around the St Christopher’s cities!
In this edition of your backpacker travel E‐zine the crew across Europe indulge you with event forecasts for the month ahead in London, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, Bruges Edinburgh and Brighton. From the Fringe in Edinburgh to the beaches brought in on the back of a lorry in Paris, there’s something here for the all the travellers in the summer of 09.
Better yet there’s a free chunk of Lonely Planet’s Coastal California title in the August extract and the top five reads serve up a tantalising blend of the books you really should be taking to the beach.
Ethical Travel explores the bike tour options in Amsterdam, Interview Time gives you a one on one session with Sky Travel’s Lisa Francesca Nand, Beauty Terrorist serves up a cure to acne and Music Mashup gets down and funky with Madonna and Holst on the London scene.
This just leaves the regular abundance of free accommodation up for grabs in the competition column and the brand spanking new healthy living guide to life on the road ‐ brought to you be the fitness experts over at Virgin Active gyms. Until September, auf wiedersehen pets.
‐ Rob Savage
This Months Features
- The Top 10 Travel Photos
- Top 5 Reads
- Write Around the World
- Beauty Terrorist
- Travel Book - Coastal California
- Free Nights in Berlin - Competition
- Music Mashup
- Europe's Famous Hostel
- Ethical Travel
- Interview Time
- Backpacker Bites
Thank you to the E-zine team and all the contributers who helped to put this month's issue together. For a full list of the people behind the magic click here
Top 10 Travel Photos
We bring you the top ten travel snaps from the last ten months of the St Christopher’s travel photo competition, Snap For A Nap.
If you've got a great Top 10 fill us in. The world is full of travellers looking for the next big adventure so give them a helping hand. To submit your ideas EMAIL US.
Top Five Reads
Top 5 Reads ‐ Check the best reads on the road from the top publishers in the business. We’ve got Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, The Uncommon Reader, the Rough Guide to California, Lonely Planet’s Coastal California Travel Guide and the Offa’s Dyke Path!
We've been getting lots of info about what you're wrapping your eyes around so why not share it with your backpacking fellows? To submit your book ideas EMAIL US.
Write Around the World
This month we crown Ilona Walker as our travel writing champion with her guide to Oxford, England.
Try your hand at travel writing, send us your submission and if we publish it you get two free nights in a St. Christopher's hostel. To submit your storys EMAIL US.
Beauty Terrorist - Goodbye Acne
The female backpacker’s best friend is back with what may well be the cure to the misery that is ‐ teenage and adult acne!
Got any suggestions for upcoming articles? To submit your ideas EMAIL US.
Travel Book - Coastal California
This month you lucky things get to read a massive (and free) chunk of Lonely Planet’s Coastal California Travel Guide. We’ve got everything you need for the best trip possible down High Way One!
What book wouldn't you leave home without? To send in your top recommendations EMAIL US.
Free Nights in Brighton - Competition
August’s prize goes to Helen Mercer who answered one simple question. You can win free beds for you and a mate in Brighton by doing the same.
Music Mashup
DJ Michelle is back with the beat on Madonna at the O2, Holst at the Proms, the single of the moment and more.
Expand our musical vocabulary by sharing your top tune tips. EMAIL US.
Backpacker Bites
This month we welcome a fitness instructor from Virgin Active Gyms into the E‐zine ranks! Expect all of your on the road travel fitness woes to be addressed and then some.
Got a health related question, comment or smart remark? To submit your ideas EMAIL US.
Europe's Famous Hostels
Celebrate our famous friends across Europe with a look at the fun to be had in Interlaken. Here’s the best video guide around from the guys on the ground!
Have you been to a famous hostel worth spreading the word about? Then EMAIL US.
Ethical Travel
This month Ethical Travel columnist Jackie Reddy explores Amsterdam in the most environmentally friendly of ways ‐ by bike!
We're here to listen about the charities that matter to you so EMAIL US.
Interview Time
This month Rob Savage has a little one on one chat with blogger, video diarist, travel writer and face of Sky Travel ‐ Lisa Francesca Nand!
Let us know who you want to talk to and we'll try to pin them down.To submit your ideas EMAIL US.
Pre-Paid Gap Year Card
This Chip & Pin pre-paid Mastercard is a masterpiece for the international backpacker and it gives you great travel offers, discounts, emergency transfer capabilities & fraud protection. www.gapyearcard.com
Credits:
Editor-in-Chief - Robert Savage
Graphic Design and Layout - Eoin Norton / Tuguldur Baatar
Feature Writers:
Backpacker Bites – David Haw, Ethical Travel – Jackie Reddy, Music Mashup – Michelle Mangal, Write For A Night – Ilona Walker
Thank You To:
The Travel Writing Team, Rough Guides, Lonely Planet, faber and faber, Cicerone, Lisa Francesca Nand, Dermalogica, Virgin Active, Golden Goose PR and Europe’s Famous Hostels.
We NEED YOU
Got a burning question, some succulent travel tips or just feeling lonely on your round the world trek? Then e-mail us now and we'll do our best to interact with you!
Send in your submissions to submissions@st-christophers.co.uk
