Laterlife Travel Guide

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Travel and Holidays in laterlife is edited by award winning travel writers , broadcasters and photographers Hugh Taylor and Moira McCrossan.

Travel and Holidays in laterlife aims to be a comprehensive guide to a wide variety of holiday cities and regions through-out the UK, Europe and to many long-haul destinations in Asia, Africa and the Americas.

In each case, Hugh and Moira draw upon their extensive experience to provide a personalized over-50s view of each destination. The essence is to capture the flavour of the location, so it's easy to decide "Is that for me?"

Each page follows a standard format (see below) to make it easy to find the information you want. In addition each page provides a link to the holiday offers section.

Meet Hugh and Moira below and then take a look at the laterlife Travel and Holidays index

Hugh Taylor is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, the Society of Antiquaries (Scotland) and a member of the British Guild of Travel Writers, Writers and Photographers Unlimited, Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild, The Society of Authors and the National Union of Journalists.

His extensive broadcast experience includes writing, producing and presenting ‘Pinkerton’ (a documentary on the founding of the Pinkerton Detective Agency) for BBC Radio Scotland and producing several specialist music/travel series for BBC Radio 2.

He and his wife, Moira McCrossan have written or contributed to over forty travel guide books, including the best selling AA Spiral Guide to Scotland which has been translated into several languages and the Scottish section of Dorling Kindersley's coffee table book Travel - Where To Go When. Their guidebooks include Globetrotter Jordan, Globetrotter Best of Cancun and Yucatan, Globetrotter Lebanon and the section on Nile Cruising for the Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness Guide to Egypt. They also contribute to and update city and country guides for North Star, who provide up to the minute guides for travel agents.

Their travel features have appeared in a wide variety of newspapers and magazines in the UK and abroad including Choice, Real Holidays, The Lady, Scots Magazine and Interval World.

Hugh is currently City Expert on Cancun, Cozumel and Mayan Riviera for www.homeandabroad.com and tutors on the NUJ Travel Writing course.


In this Guide to travel and holidays in laterlife, be guided by Hugh and Moira, who give you an over-50s view-point on the pleasures of worldwide travel.

To take a look at the sections that are of most interest visit the