
Travel Writing Competition Runners-Up 2018
- By Simpson Travel
- 27 Nov 2018
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The runners-up were Andrew Balchin and Susan Enticott. Andrew's entry is a delightfully evocative piece about a meal at a local taverna on Paxos, and Susan entertained us with a clever and thoughtful story about watching the Royal Wedding amongst the everyday hustle and bustle of Vamos in Crete. Read more >
The winner was Bob Walters, who wrote an eloquent yet humorous piece about his holiday to the Purple Apricot on Paxos. Read more >
Author Susan Lewis kindly judged our 2016 writing competition. Read her helpful tips on killer first lines, maintaining the creative flow and keeping an open mind. Read more >
Simpson Traveller Michael Shaw shares the joy of that first-day-of-the-holiday feeling with a beautifully descriptive account of an early morning swim in the Cretan sunshine. Read more >
The winner in our 2016 holiday writing competition was Ilene Sterns, whose lyrical account of a summer concert in Corsica reads like a front seat at the performance. Read more >
Sometimes we find solace in the most unexpected places: discover how a holiday on 'painfully beautiful' Meganissi helped one visitor start to come to terms with her loss. Read more >
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