Autumn's here
Dear firstname,
There’s nothing better than a sunny day in autumn walking through fields lined with trees turning red and dropping their leaves about you.
For those of you lucky enough to have enjoyed an ecoescape or two over the summer, we’d love to hear from you. So if you visited any of the businesses on our website, send us your comments (up to 50 words) and we’ll enter you into a prize draw for a free ecoescape guide. Write to laura@ecoescape.org.
Become an ecoescape member!
During the summer we made a big decision to incorporate ecoescape as a Community Interest Company. This means that everything we do and every penny we earn goes into promoting sustainable tourism in the UK and Ireland.
To celebrate our new legal status, we’re launching a membership scheme for individuals and green businesses. So you can now be a part of our growing community helping the tourism industry to become more sustainable in the UK and beyond.
For a limited time, enjoy a free one-month trial membership. Simply fill out your details at this link and we’ll send you all the info you need to login to our members’ website where you can network with others and enjoy reading about behind-the-scenes tourism.
Finally, have a read of our suggestions for places to stay this autumn below and don’t forget to tell us what you’ve been up to!
Bye for now
Laura & the ecoescape team
www.ecoescape.org
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We had some lovely press coverage over the summer for both our green travel guides: ecoescape UK and ecoescape Ireland including:
- The Ecologist's 'Pick of the Month' in June
- Recommended by Which? Magazine in August
Both books cost just £8.99 each and can be ordered from our website with free P&P to the UK! Click here
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Located in the Peak District National Park, Wheeldon Trees Farm offers a choice of eight holiday cottages sleeping altogether up to 28 people. Many of the cottages enjoy views of the hills and Upper Dove Valley and the White Peaks are within walking distance. Read more...
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Raven Hall Hotel’s Finnish lodges are bringing this seaside retreat into a new and sustainable era. The set of eight lodges were constructed and flat-packed in Finland – a world leader in sustainable forestry management whereby every tree that is felled under the forestry scheme, seven trees are planted in its place. Read more...
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South Reen is a modern self-catering house on Ann Shaw’s remote organic farm in County Cork. Just metres from the Atlantic shoreline, you can enjoy some whalewatching nearby or simply enjoy the seaviews from the house. Inside there’s a cosy wood-burning stove fed by Ann’s coppiced trees. Read more...
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By Mark Frost
“Is this because you want to go on that sleeper train thing?” girlfriend Emma asks with a raised eyebrow that conveys, if not wholesale criticism, at least a healthy scepticism as I discuss my thoughts on our summer break. In truth she isn’t that wide of the mark…I’d had a secret (guilty) craving to catch the ‘Night Riviera’ sleeper service from Paddington to Penzance for some time. Read more...
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Ashley Bartner from La Tavola Marche, a culinary B&B in Italy lets us in on a few secrets of the Slow Food Movement and how she and her partner Jason provide guests with an authentic taste of Italy.
"We are proud Members of Slow Food and love to spread the word whenever possible. Here in Italy we live it - we know the farmers where we buy our meat (and get to see the cows, pigs and sheep) as well as for the local produce - and whenever possible, we pick it either on our property, what’s grown wild or at our neighbour’s green house!" Read more...
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We’re launching a membership scheme for individuals and green businesses. So you can now be a part of our growing community helping the tourism industry to become more sustainable in the UK and beyond. For a limited time, enjoy a free one-month trial membership. Simply fill out your details at this link and we’ll send you all the info you need to login to our members’ website where you can network with others and enjoy reading about behind-the-scenes tourism. Membership usually costs £25 per year for individuals and £49 for green businesses. Apply now for your free trial!
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