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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

5 months

Farewell from the newsroom at Canary Wharf, London, to our amazing, brilliantly talented colleagues at Reach/Daily Mirror: Clare Fitzsimons, Tricia Phillips, Mernie Gilmore, Emily Retter and Marjorie Yue

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

4 years

Dreadful times for the dedicated, brilliant, hard working people in the UK #travel industry. To them and the fabulous PR firms and press offices: stay safe, stay strong, we'll get through this. I'll be in touch about plans for Reach nationals travel coverage. Cheers

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

3 years

Hello Lovely Travel PRs! It's been a tough year for covering travel, so huge thanks for all your help with filling the pages in the Express, Mirror, People and Star newspapers. We kept all our sections going and could not have done it without you. Next year will be better!

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

2 years

Hello lovely travel PRs! A huge thank you from the Reach nationals travel team for all your fantastic help and support in another very challenging year, we could not have kept all our newspaper sections going without you. Have a great and safe NYE and here's to a better 2022!

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

4 months

Farewell to two of the most inspiring, brilliantly talented, wonderful, fair and funny colleagues I have been privileged to work with at the Daily Mirror/Reach. Editor Alison Phillips and Associate Editor (Production) Trudi Roche. Best of the best for 26 years each. Thank you x

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

3 years

Hello Lovely Travel PRs! Today marks one year of WFH for the Reach nationals travel team, so HUGE thanks for helping us to keep all our sections going. Great news to see press trip invites starting to arrive again, so here's to some happy and safe travels later in 2021!

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

1 year

Dear PR Land. Please stop sending me press releases about pancakes. I do not write about pancakes. Thank you

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

4 years

In your face WFH. First press trip of 2020!

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

3 years

“The United Kingdom international travel restart policy due to arrive at 5pm on April 5 has been delayed... and will be in a holding pattern until April 12. Thank you for flying Waffle Airways.”

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

4 years

Hello Lovely Travel PRs. It’s been a difficult year with work and family challenges, so thank you for your brilliant help and support - and especially for kind words in the dark days. Happy New Year and looking forward to working with you in 2020 - 1,196 pages await! 😊

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

4 years

Credit where credit is due. A good travel PR made up word to end the week: a press release on dog friendly holidays to France kicks off with ‘Bone-jour’. C’est paw-midable!

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

4 years

48hrs to the Thursday Holiday Hokey Cokey! You put your Portugal in, you put your Portugal out, In, out, in, out, You Shapps it all about, (at 5pm or thereabouts) You do the Thursday Holiday Hokey Cokey, And you turn around by 4am Sat, Nobody knows what it's all about!

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

2 years

Me to a journo: 'How is your long overdue travel feature on that five-star press trip progressing?' Journo: 'I haven’t found the time to write it up yet' Me: 'You found the time to go on the press trip'

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

5 years

Hello Travel PRs. A word to the wise. The more follow up emails and phone calls I get, the more rapidly the prospects of your press release seeing the light of day diminish (a follow up after 1hr is ridiculous frankly). Send it I’ll read it and use or not. End. Of. Thanks

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

3 years

This weekend marks 1,000 WFH pages produced for the Reach national newspapers travel sections. We're doing our best to keep travel coverage out there, so huge thanks to everyone who's helped to make it happen

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

6 months

Hello lovely #Travel PRs! Happy Christmas to you all and huge thanks once again for all your fantastic help and support throughout this year! 🎄🙏

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

4 years

You find out who your mates are when times are a bit tricky. So a huge thank you to all the lovely Reach national #newspapers colleagues who have volunteered (without being asked) to write up their own holidays to help fill our travel pages 👍🙏😀

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

3 years

500 days of WFH for the Reach national newspapers travel desk today, with 1,821 pages filled. Huge thanks to all the fab travel PR and press office teams for helping us to give our readers vibrant sections packed with inspiration and optimism!

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

5 years

In 38 years of faffing about in the wonderful world of newspapers I have been called many things, mostly justifiably unprintable. Today in the Daily Mirror apparently I am an ‘expert. I hope my favourite Twitter stalker (ie my fab 86 year old mum!) appreciates this accolade!

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

3 years

Portugal travel rant... with angry shouty CAPS

Portugal shambles is a return to Thursday 'Shapps o'clock' holiday hokey cokey

What's that loud bang? It's the sound of the door slamming shut on the summer holiday plans of tens of thousands of bewildered Brits whose getaway dreams are once again in tatters

www.mirror.co.uk

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

9 months

Dear Lovely Travel PRs: when you send a press release about a new holiday launch, it really, really, really helps if you SAY HOW MUCH IT COSTS. Is the level of detail our readers very much like to know. No need to keep it a secret. Thank you

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

4 years

Dear Government. When the British travel industry asked for regional travel corridors without quarantines they meant for selected destinations in Europe, not for different parts of the UK. Thanks

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

8 years

Sneak peek at world's biggest #cruise ship Harmony of the Seas with @CaptGreybeard #getmeonharmony

A sneak peek at the world's biggest cruise ship Harmony of the Seas

Mirror Travel cruise expert Captain Greybeard was one of a select group of journalists allowed to take a look at work in progress on the record-breaking vessel

www.mirror.co.uk

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

6 months

Farewell and good luck to Mr Peter Fenton, a fantastic, supremely talented and witty national #newspaper colleague on @DailyMirror production. We've worked together for 29 years, been an absolute pleasure, so bon retirement Pete!

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

4 years

Are we all ready for the Government's Thursday 5pm weekly game of travel quarantine musical chairs? Today, folks, the music of doom will stop on...?

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

6 years

That's Queen and Adam Lambert right there. Currently knocking the socks off the O2 in London

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

1 year

Not quite Santa Monica but Westcliff-on-Sea in Essex was dazzling in winter sunshine today. Wrap up and you're fine! Americano sat outside at Rossi's ice cream parlour, lovely!

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

7 years

Wonderful send off for John Honeywell. A celebration of the life of a great (and v funny) colleague and friend. Farewell Captain Greybeard

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

2 years

Strictly gold at the 2022 British Travel Awards. IT'S A TEN! Guests have actually stopped talking and drinking for a few minutes @BritTravAwrds #BTA2122

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

2 years

Nice to see view again! The Reach travel desk has got its old view back at Canary Wharf today. We are on floor 23 at One Canada Square in the new nationals hub

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

6 years

If you've got a PhD in Astrophysics, you get a star-struck audience. Dr Brian May acoustic guitar solo at Queen/Adam Lambert (he is brilliant btw) concert at O2 in London. And it's just 2mins back to the bar at the fab @InterConHotels London O2! Love it!

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

3 years

Journalist replying to a staff-wide mailshot for a press trip just asked if they would be required to write a review of the trip...

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

7 years

Today's Daily Mirror. Farewell to my friend Captain Greybeard. It was a privilege to have known you. RIP shipmate

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

4 years

This weekend we pass the 500 mark for WFH pages produced for the Reach national newspapers travel sections as we do our best to keep travel out there. Huge thanks to everyone who's helped to make it happen!

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

2 years

First long haul trip for 28 months and first time on Virgin Atlantic for almost six years! (No particular reason just how flights worked out). Looking forward to checking out their Red Velvet A350!

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

6 years

Fly past at 250mph and 700ft over the fjord at Akureyri, northern Iceland, on @Icelandair celebration flight with new Boeing 737 MAX-8 jet #IcelandByAir #plane

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

9 years

Stardust memories at excellent @NeonMuseum in Las Vegas http://t.co/ds0ZlGWIr6

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

4 years

Homeworking dilemma. Is 9.30am too early for a biscuit? (Asking for a friend)

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

5 years

Hello Lovely Travel PRs! 40 Mirror/Star/Express travel pages are just about full and I'm bailing till Thursday. Thanks for your help filling them. Have a great Christmas! PS: Neil says thanks too

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

4 years

Travel PR masterclass from @pandocruises press office last night - stellar media launch for Gary Barlow as new brand ambassador. Advance apols to Reach colleagues, I am likely to be talking about this all day!

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

2 years

A travel PR just emailed me to ask what my email address is...🤔

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

3 years

Hello Lovely Travel PRs! When you are sending travel deals please don't be afraid to say which UK airport the flight is departing from and how much the holiday costs. These are the kind of details our readers do like to know. Thanks and take care

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

3 years

Good luck to everyone from the UK travel industry at today's #TravelDayofAction lobbying the Government for a safe, coherent strategy for restarting leisure travel this summer and urgent sector support to save businesses and jobs. Go get em!

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

4 years

First 'Hi Neil' travel press release of the lockdown has arrived! I've missed those!

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

4 years

Stumbled into the wonderful world of newspapers 40 years ago today! Worked with brilliant colleagues, met amazing people, still love the journalism buzz. Always grateful for the initial opportunity on the Eastern Daily Press. And it's kept me out of mischief... mostly

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

3 years

Simple food, utterly delicious. Burns Night haggis, neeps and tatties. A nice reminder of when we lived in Bonnie Scotland. Thanks to @VisitScotland and @MacsweenHaggis for the haggis delivery!

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

5 years

Hello! To reflect the change from Travel Editor of the Mirror titles to six Reach plc nationals (Express, Mirror, Star) I've changed my Twitter handle to the more generic @TravelEdNigel Cheers

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

2 years

First stop on @HALcruises Rotterdam Southern Caribbean sailing - Half Moon Cay, The Bahamas. It all went swimmingly

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

9 years

Six days in the life of a long haul passenger #aircraft #TravelTuesday http://t.co/uwA8oiLV7Y

Six days in the life of a long haul Delta passenger jet

USA airline giant Delta keeps a fascinating diary of the 40,000-mile global travels of its Boeing 767-300ER aircraft called Ship #1609

www.mirror.co.uk

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

5 years

Hello Lovely Travel PRs. If you could please stop sending emails along the below lines it would be really helpful. Thanks ‘Hi Nigel, I know your inbox is probably very full and you are really busy, so I am just sending this press release to you yet again’.

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

4 years

Is it too early for a Magnum from the freezer? (Asking for a friend)🍦

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

4 years

Sunset in our patch of Essex

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

4 years

Seasons greetings @lisaminot - someone just tried to sneak a Christmas press release under the radar but I spotted it and nailed the blighter. Tally ho! Bandits at three o'clock. Stay vigilant

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

4 years

Cat just jumped on keyboard and deleted an entire travel feature. Might train her to do pointless travel surveys next

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

4 years

Grab some great reading for the weekend! #buyapaper on your daily walk

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

3 years

Wow. 41 years of working in UK newspapers and possibly the worst press release I have seen - a survey which reveals the number of Brits who leave skid marks. Literally, who gives a shit? *and spikes*

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

5 years

As press trip invites go, an intriguing one you’d read: ‘Meet Jesus - your personal invitation with the Lord’

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

5 years

So some #travel escaped to the front of the Daily Mirror today and popped up on the leader page. Normal back of the book service resumes at the weekend (somewhere in the wilderness between gardening and Sport)

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

3 years

Not just one, but TWO 'Hi Neil' emails in the last hour! Taking it as a positive sign that travel is just ever so slowly starting on the road back to normal!

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

7 years

Some might say that's Noel Gallagher outside our box at Etihad stadium for #MCFCvLFC . Definitely may be him

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

4 years

Two ripe olives in darkest Essex, our first ever successful 'crop'. We are the new Kalamata!

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

3 years

Got three lovers? Like a bit of value? Asda has the perfect Valentine's card solution!

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

2 years

38,000hp taking @HALcruises Rotterdam at 17 knots on the 1,238 mile voyage up the sunny Caribbean from Aruba to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, passing Haiti and Cuba #travel #cruise

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

3 years

Tomorrow's Sunday Express print #travel (for holidays in the new normal) - Magical Madeira is the perfect cure for lockdown blues. By @JaneRockHouse

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

4 years

Dear Lovely Travel PRs - Hint of the Day: when sending a press release about your client's product please, please, please SAY HOW MUCH IT COSTS! Readers like to know these useful details. Thanks and take care

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

3 years

Massively disappointed to discover that Pano Christou, the chief executive of Pret a Manger, isn't called Pano Chocolate

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

3 years

Airline staff on getting planes ready to fly again - from chocks and tyre checks to pilot training. Fascinating insight from @Finnair for @MirrorTravel

Airline staff on getting planes ready to fly again from checks to pilot training

Finnair staff have offered some insight into what it takes to get planes ready to take to the skies when travel opens up a bit more

www.mirror.co.uk

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

6 years

One of the @shroudsofsomme at Stratford #London marking the 861 British and Commonwealth soldiers killed on November 11, 1918. Think about it: they died on the very last day of WW1. Go if you can. It's something very special #ShroudsOfTheSomme

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

5 years

Top marks to travel PR firm @PR_Lemongrass for fact box filing. Evidently made the effort to look in the papers to see how we do them and filed to the exact format. 10/10 chaps. Thanks

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

2 years

First day back at new Reach national newspapers hub in Canary Wharf, London! Gentle introduction in the quieter north facing side (formally the Collaboration Zone; ooh, fancy!) with a great view of Stratford and the Olympic stadium. One more welcome step to normality!

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

3 years

‘Britain’s travel industry is in a perilous state - it needs help... now’ Comment for @MirrorTravel

'Britain's travel industry is in a perilous state - it needs help... now'

New hotel quarantines have been announced for people visiting the UK from 30 countries - but the industry is struggling and needs help

www.mirror.co.uk

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

5 years

While I fully accept I’m not quite as trim as I was in my 20s, the invite to the World Obesity forum is frankly a bit harsh. Meanwhile, that VIP corporate hospitality invite to the Champions League final is still yet to arrive. They’re leaving it awfully late...

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

9 years

@MirrorFootball Skrtl. A consonant threat from corners

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

4 years

The lockdown hasn't stopped our brilliant designers from weaving their magic and this weekend there's a shiny new look for the Sunday Mirror #travel pages. Part of a vibrant new lifestyle section. We're blooming keen on here ...Don't miss it!

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

4 years

Getting a PR freebie sent to your house comes at a heavy price these days... ‘Feel free to share your address with us if you would like to be included? - (please note: we will destroy it afterwards)’

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

3 years

After 23 loooooong months we're finally back on an ocean #cruise ship! Ahoy Scarlet Lady and @VirginVoyages - and thanks for the bubbly welcome on board!

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

1 year

Inside the Barbados National Armoury, near Bridgetown - home to an incredibly rare Oliver Cromwell era English naval cannon from 1652, stamped with the Commonwealth flag

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

6 years

Travel PR: Are you aware our client Xxxxx Xxxxx won a Gold award at the British Travel Awards? Me: Yes, I presented it to your client on stage. (Or possibly Neil did, but you get the drift)

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

2 years

Splash headline of the year contender from Metro today. Laughed so much the cats fled into the garden. Great work 👏

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

3 years

Hello Lovely Travel PRs! If you have a press release about a new travel product/service etc please, please, please don't be afraid to include how much it actually costs in the release. Really helps. Thanks

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

4 years

Jumping on the Canary Wharf #London sunset bandwagon. Half the staff at Reach Towers are at the windows taking pix!

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

4 years

UK #HolidayToHelpOut week starts today! Get a great deal for getaways after Lockdown 2 and support your fabulous local high street travel agents. It's backed by the best companies across the British travel industry, so get booking now! #SaveTravel

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

4 years

I appreciate it's incredibly trivial in the current crisis, but it's really annoying to see streets littered with plastic gloves. This lot on a 5min walk to local shop

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

4 years

Hello @PPaulCharles - arrived at Jersey airport yesterday afternoon, had Covid test, less than 24hrs later we have received negative results. It can be done (on a small island, admittedly)

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

8 months

Congrats to @lisaminot and our mates at the Sun for winning the #TravelMediaAwards tabloid section prize!

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

5 years

Love a #cruise sea day. @HALcruises Nieuw Statendam is in the Atlantic, hundreds of miles from land heading from Ireland to Spain. Just us, fresh air (and five seagulls). Should you be wondering, the ocean here is 2.5 miles deep!

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

3 years

Waterfront of Funchal, Madeira, lit up for Christmas seen from Marella Explorer 2. Beautiful backdrop for our overnight stay #cruise #xmas #travel

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

2 years

Sunset klaxon! @HALcruises Rotterdam in Willemstad, Curaçao. View from Rif Fort walls after essential research in fort hostelry

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

4 years

The travel feature that only took 33 years to write!

Mirror Travel

@MirrorTravel

4 years

Our @TravelEdNigel looks back on a Turkey holiday that ended with quarantine in the 1980s

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

8 months

'What airline are you flying on at #Stansted ?' 'Lauda.' 'I SAID WHAT AIRLINE ARE YOU FLYING ON AT STANSTED?!' 😁✈️

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

5 years

First press release of the day arrives: 'Hi Seth'. Neil and Nick are concerned about a new kid on the travel block

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

4 years

Holy moly! Just got a travel press release containing both 'Egg-stravaganza' and 'Spooktacular'! Completely unnecessary and distressing, am traumatised! *and spikes*

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

5 years

Travel PR email just arrived: 'Hi Keith'. That's a first. Neil and Nick are envious.

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

2 years

Shore is impressive - @MSC_Cruises_UK World Europa in dry dock at the Chantiers de l’Atlantique shipyard in Saint-Nazaire, France

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

5 years

And the gold/silver/bronze #BTA19 awards presentations are under way! Just 13,657 categories to go! The Red Cross are providing temporary shelters and camp bed for guests and with luck we’ll all be out by Christmas

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Nigel Thompson

@TravelEdNigel

5 years

First look at @VirginAtlantic new Airbus A350 #plane including its lavish Upper Class suites - by @Julie_Delahaye for @MirrorTravel (with me at the back of the bus, which is very good)