Inspiring Travel Writing from Anthea Gerrie
Anthea Gerrie spent the first half of her first honeymoon discovering the then barely known Out Islands of the Bahamas for Harpers and Queen, and the second half reporting the thrill of touring the USA on an unlimited Greyhound bus ticket for a teen magazine. She resumed her travel-writing career after a decade running the rat race, first in the Los Angeles cosmetics industry, later at the Daily Mail in London. Now leaving home in Sussex approximately every two weeks in search of fresh experiences at home and abroad, she specialises in gastro-tourism, global style and visual feasts which feed her other life as an artist.
Articles by Anthea Gerrie
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John Wayne's long shadow
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Anthea Gerrie
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United States
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Arizona
You may have seen it a dozen times on celluloid, but nothing prepares you for coming upon Monument Valley in your own hire car at the place where Arizona meets Utah - the astonishing configuration of gigantic red rocks which has served as the...
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Chicago Shopping
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Anthea Gerrie
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United States
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Illinois
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Chicago
While your everyday tourist is battling the crowds on Fifth Avenue and Madison in the annual New York pre-Christmas shopping crush, savvier shoppers are picking up the same stuff - plus a whole hoard of unique merchandise - on the broad, breezy...
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South Australia
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Anthea Gerrie
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Australia
In a country packed with show-stoppers like Ayers Rock, Sydney Harbour and the Great Barrier Reef, it’s not surprising South Australia remains relatively undiscovered by foreign visitors. But that’s a real shame, for in packed into one...
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Galilee
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Anthea Gerrie
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Israel
Whether it’s the sweet mountain air, the fertile soil or the legend of water being turned into wine by a maverick, miracle-wreaking Jew 2000 years ago, there is certainly something discernibly magical and mystical about the Galilee. You only...
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Australia: Living the Movie
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Anthea Gerrie
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Australia
Far more potently than any travel brochure, the vast sweeping landscapes of Baz Luhrmann’s new Australia movie are bound to fuel midwinter dreams of a trip to that majestic land Down Under. Bush fever, rather than a longing to see Sydney...
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Galicia
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Anthea Gerrie
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Spain
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Galicia
In fact many kinds of pastries and desserts are still being faithfully turned out according to centuries-old Sephardic recipes at La Tafona de Herminia, a bakery in the tiny town of Ribadavia which proudly identifies itself with a Magen David....
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Shopping and Sleeping: Hotel Deals in Europe
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Anthea Gerrie
There’s more to Paris than those great department stores, Printemps and Galeries Lafayette, which draw shoppers to the Boulevard Haussmann. Fashionistas favour the Marais, with its luxe-bohemian vibe and hotels to match - try the uber-chic...
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See Eastbourne and Die
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Anthea Gerrie
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United Kingdom
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South East England
Eastbourne Council could not be more pleased than if they had written these lines from the movie Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging themselves. For years they have been trying to change the view of the resort as the exclusive province of retirees...
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Bittersweet Home Alabama
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Anthea Gerrie
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United States
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Alabama
It was always beautiful, even when it was a little bit ugly too. I remember marvelling on my first drive through Alabama in the 1960s at the green, green lawns, a perfect foil to the red brick, white-trimmed antebellum mansions, a sense of highly-...
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Cruising Tierra del Fuego
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Anthea Gerrie
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Argentina
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Tierra del Fuego
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Ushuaia
There can’t be a more thrilling single destination than Tierra del Fuego. Even the most jaded traveller would relish the feeling of being at the ends of the earth; the tip of South America is as far south as you can go before hitting Antarctica....