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The Travellers Club – why gentleman members won't let the ladies in

Where else can a chap escape "normal life" but in a near 200-year-old men-only private club?

When Anthony Layden, chairman of The Travellers Club , consulted members on whether "ladies" should be allowed to join, there was, he confessed, "a degree of mutual incomprehension" between those for and against the idea.

While women are welcome as guests throughout its posh Pall Mall home – other than in the smoking room and the cocktail bar – Layden, a former UK ambassador to Morocco and Libya, decided last year it was time to canvas opinions of members, who include foreign visitors and diplomats, on allowing ladies in.

By 60% to 40%, the gentlemen at the club – founded in 1819 "for gentlemen who had travelled out of the British Isles to a distance of at least five hundred miles from London in a direct line" – decided they like things just the way they are.

Thanks to Layden's account, obtained by the Evening Standard , we know there were strong expressions in favour of change at the club, whose patron is Prince Philip.

One enthusiast suggested the male-only policy was half a century out of date. "Do we, a club for cosmopolitan internationalists, really wish to remain on a par with the Taliban?" asked one. Another suggested that if the club continued to bar travellers because they were women, it would be "out of key" with what people "accept and take for granted in their professional and personal lives".

But the naysayers generally expressed themselves more strongly. Male congeniality would be destroyed, said one, warning that "hen parties would appear and shrill voices be heard". Another, backing what he called the "spirit and conviviality" at the club, added: "Whilst to some, this may conjure up images of the Symposium, Roman baths, clandestine cults and rugby clubs, there are a few refuges a gentleman ought to have."

The written word cannot tell how firmly in a cheek a gentleman's tongue may have been while making such comments, but another opponent of change argued: "I see the club as a bastion and retreat from the rigours of normal life and despite being a young(ish) member, I would consider women to be in the normal-life category."

Layden's recommendation, accepted by the club's general committee last month, was that the idea of letting women in should be taken no further.

While he agreed "there are, as there have always been, many distinguished lady travellers and adventurers whose presence in the club would enhance our conversations", the future should remain "steady as she goes".

He hoped those wanting change would hold back from pressing for it for the time being.

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The story of The Travellers Club, the oldest club on Pall Mall and a home-from-home for globetrotters for 200 years

To mark the bicentenary of The Travellers Club – the oldest club in Pall Mall – John Martin Robinson tells the story of an institution and its home, a purpose-built Renaissance palace. Photographs by Paul Highnam.

The Travellers Club was founded in May 1819, brainchild of Viscount Castlereagh, Foreign Secretary and British Minister Plenipotentiary at the Congress of Vienna. He spoke of establishing a club in which men could meet socially with other travellers, visiting ‘foreigners of distinction’ and diplomats.

Throughout its history, these elements have been a strong part of the club’s character. To qualify, members had to travel 500 miles in a straight line outside England. A member quipped it had to be on land, otherwise ‘convicts from Botany Bay might have qualified’.

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The club emerged after the Napoleonic Wars, when war and trade had carried mariners, soldiers and officials across the world. For cultural travellers, conflict had deflected visits from the usual Grand Tour destinations to Greece, the Levant and Egypt.

Early members included five future Prime Ministers – Aberdeen, Palmerston, Canning, Lord John Russell and the Earl of Derby – as well as several Greek Revival architects/designers: Smirke, Wilkins, Westmacott, Thomas Hope and C. R. Cockerell, the latter the club’s architectural conscience.

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There were diplomats, such as the Earl of Elgin, who gave a plaster cast of the Parthenon Marbles, and his associates Lt-Col William Leake, who brought the Marbles to London, and William Richard Hamilton, Elgin’s secretary, who prevented the French from removing the Rosetta Stone from Egypt.

They were all trustees of the British Museum and several founders of the National Gallery joined them, including Sir George Beaumont, George Vernon and the Rev Holwell Carr, who all gave their collections to the gallery.

The founder chairman was the 2nd Lord Auckland, later Governor General of India and responsible for the unsuccessful First Afghan War. Other committee members included John Sawrey Morritt, friend of Walter Scott, who had surveyed the scene of the Iliad and bought Velásquez’s ‘Rokeby Venus’, and Sir Gore Ouseley, the earliest British ambassador to Persia. Military figures in the early membership included the Duke of Wellington, the Marquess of Anglesey and Lords Raglan and Cardigan.

‘This house, in turn, proved inadequate as the membership grew’

The first foreign visitors were Russian: Count Simon Woronzow, ambassador to George III, and his son, Prince Michael Woronzow, commander of the Russian cavalry at Moscow in 1812 and governor of the Caucasus, who employed Edmund Blore to design a Moorish-Jacobethan palace at Alupka in the Crimea.

Most famous of the early diplomat members was Talleyrand during his four years as ambassador in London, playing whist most nights and for whom an extra handrail was added to the stair bannisters.

The early visitors also included writers, such as the American Nathaniel Parker Willis and the Frenchman Louis de Vignet. A less welcome guest, who caused trouble by taking books from the library and criticising the card accountant, was Prince Pückler-Muskau. He left a description of the club in his Tour of a German Prince in England (1832).

He was complimentary about the club as an institution, but less so about the members: ‘The English nobility haughty as it is, can scarcely measure itself against the French in antiquity and purity of blood.’ He described them as ‘new families, often of very mean and even discreditable extraction’ and commented that it was easy to muddle the servants for the masters, as the former had more ‘natural dignity’ and better manners.

In 1819, the club took temporary premises in Waterloo Place, which were adapted by Cockerell. These proved too small and rickety and it soon moved to a larger house at 49, Pall Mall. This was also converted for the club by Cockerell, who presented his plastercast of the Phigaleian Marbles from the Temple of Apollo Epikourios, which he had excavated at Bassae and secured for the British Museum. This was installed in the Coffee Room (now transferred to the library of the Barry building) and Lord Elgin’s plaster Parthenon Marbles in the Drawing Room. They gave the building a strongly Grecian character during its 10-year existence.

This house, in turn, proved inadequate as the membership grew. A perfect new site presented itself on the other side of Pall Mall when George IV moved to Buckingham Palace and Carlton House was redeveloped.

The Office of Woods and Forest (Crown Estate) were keen to spread the architectural grandeur of the Metropolitan Improvements along Pall Mall by encouraging new club buildings, which were more impressive than private houses. On either side of Waterloo Place were the United Service Club, designed by Nash, the Athenaeum by Decimus Burton and, opposite the former, the United University Club by William Wilkins.

In 1828, The Travellers secured the site of three houses immediately adjoining the Athenaeum for its permanent base. This was not without hitches, as George IV, with characteristic insouciance, kyboshed the original site deal by insisting on retaining a house on it for a member of his Household; the club accepted a slightly more constricted site, with a condition that the land behind was not built on, and so the setting of trees and grass in Carlton Gardens survives.

Under the chairmanship of Lord Granville Somerset, The Travellers chose its architect by competition. No other St James’s club has selected an architect by such a process.

In May 1828, it was resolved to ‘procure plans from no less than five eminent architects’ and to obtain cost estimates from an ‘experienced surveyor’. For the latter, they chose Joseph Henry Good, Surveyor to the Com-missioners for Building New Churches.

In fact, seven architects were approached initially and 11 in total. Many had already designed clubs. Two members of The Travellers were included: Robert Smirke and William Wilkins. John Peter Deering (a classical archaeologist and, with Wilkins, joint architect of the United University Club), William Atkinson (a pupil of James Wyatt), Decimus Burton, Benjamin Dean Wyatt (architect of Crockford’s and the Oriental, son of James) and Lewis Wyatt (James’s nephew).

The following week, four more architects were approached: Henry Harrison, Jeffry Wyatville, Charles Barry and Thomas Hopper (architect of Arthur’s Club). A couple more were subsequently asked: Ambrose Poynter and Edward Blore. Of these, Smirke, Burton, Lewis Wyatt and Jeffry Wyatville declined, but eight submitted designs.

As the drawings of unsuccessful entries were returned with thanks, all are now lost.

Cockerell was not on the sub-committee, but was on the general committee, and his fastidious criticism elsewhere of his colleagues’ work may explain why some were turned down; nearly everybody thought Blore uninspired and Poynter lacked distinction.

The palm was offered to the outsider, Charles Barry. At 33, he was the youngest to enter and had designed little except the Greek Revival Royal Institution of Fine Arts (now Art Gallery) in Manchester and some cheap Commissioners’ churches in Man-chester and London. The former may have been familiar to northern members, such as Edward Legh of Lyme or Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, but he cannot otherwise have been known to the committee.

His adventurous travels as a student to France, Italy, Greece and Turkey would have appealed to the club, but it was probably his track record with the Commissioners of New Churches that won him the job. Joseph Good was able to advise the club that Barry was experienced in keeping within approved building budgets and that advice may have been decisive. There was also the originality and excellence of the design, with its clever planning for the deep site and the novel deployment of Italian Renaissance palazzo architecture.

The competition design of 1828 was revised to meet the present, narrower site in March 1829 and then revised again to meet criticisms from the Crown and Athenaeum about the likely impact on the cornice of the latter.

Barry’s ingenious solution was to create recesses on both elevations adjoining the Athenaeum. This allowed slightly more interesting shapes for the main rooms and enabled the cornice of The Travellers to be returned at the sides rather than cut off, something that has always been admired.

Externally, Barry drew on Florentine and Venetian sources for the two elevations, Raphael’s Palazzo Pandolfini for Pall Mall and the Grand Canal for Carlton Gardens (where the lawns substituted for Venetian water).

Inside, the vocabulary stretched to include Grecian and English Palladian details, in the library chimneypieces or the carved-oak Grand Staircase. Enthusiasm for the latter may have come from the chairman of the building committee Gen the Hon Sir Edward Cust, with memories of his ancestral home at Belton in Lincolnshire.

Barry’s most novel stroke was the internal cortile in the centre of the plan, with the halls and landings arranged like arcades round it. This enabled light to reach the depths of the interior, including the kitchen, scullery and Still Room in the basement.

The building was constructed by Stokes (Paxton’s son-in-law); it was roofed in 1831 and first used to watch William IV’s Coronation procession. It was completed in 1832.

Barry’s architecture has always been cherished by The Travellers, which, over the decades, has allowed art and architecture students to visit and make measured drawings. There was only one blip in the record: Barry remained the club architect throughout his life, but after him, Hungerford Pollen advised. He was Cockerell’s nephew.

In order to allow in more light, Pollen removed Barry’s balconies from the library windows in 1867 and replaced them with ‘Baker Street’ iron balustrades. Following furious protests, not least from Barry’s younger son and biographer Edward, the club reinstated the balconies to the original design. Suitably chastened, it never attempted to alter the elevations again.

Over the years, several changes have been made to the interior. A fire in 1850 destroyed Barry’s billiard room and the Elgin plaster frieze. In 1910, the Coffee Room was moved up to the first-floor drawing room (Fig 3) to create a ground-floor Smoking Room.

The entrance hall was also tactfully extended, reusing Barry’s windows and chimneypiece into the cortile by the then club architect Macvicar Anderson. Few realise this not part of the original Barry design.

Anderson added upper storeys of bedrooms after the First World War. In the early 20th century, the club benefitted from the care and knowledge of a member, Hal Goodhart-Rendal, who, for a time, also acted as the club architect. He recommended Fred Rowntree as his successor and Rowntree designed the handsome First and Second World War Memorials and restored the club after it suffered bomb damage in 1940.

Goodhart-Rendal had restored and replicated the Colza chandeliers and other light fittings and produced a design for roofing over the main floor of the cortile to make a ‘saloon’. This was not proceeded with, nor was its revival in 1970 by Ian Grant, chairman of the Victorian Society, although he was responsible for re-graining the library in its original oak with a grant from the Greater London Council Historic Buildings Division.

This was one of several late-20th-century restorations of original decorative schemes, including the repainting of the Coffee Room in Barry’s yellows and greys in 1988. The library remains the heart of the club and, as well as being one of the most beautiful rooms in London, it contains the finest collection of travel books in private hands, donated by members over two centuries. Its present flourishing condition with lectures and exhibitions attests to the continuing vigour of The Travellers after 200 years.

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The Travellers Club, located at 106 Pall Mall, is one of London’s oldest and most prestigious gentlemen’s clubs. Founded in 1819, the club was established for “gentlemen who have travelled out of the British Isles to a distance of at least five hundred miles from London in a direct line.” This membership requirement, along with the club’s luxurious and refined atmosphere, has made it a favorite among diplomats, politicians, and other accomplished individuals. At one point, so many members were linked to MI5 and MI6 that it was simply known as the Spooks Club.

The club’s building, designed by Charles Barry, is a stunning example of Palladian style and has been a London landmark for over 200 years. Inside, members can enjoy various lounges, reading rooms, dining rooms, an extensive library, and a billiards room.

In addition to its impressive facilities, the Travellers Club is also known for its rich history and distinguished membership. Past members include explorers, statesmen, and literary figures such as David Livingstone, Winston Churchill, and Rudyard Kipling. The club has also played host to numerous important events, including the signing of the Anglo-French Entente Cordiale in 1904.

Despite its traditional and exclusive reputation, the Travellers Club is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive membership. Today, the club continues to attract a diverse range of accomplished individuals from various fields and backgrounds.

Overall, the Travellers Club is a true London institution, offering its members a luxurious and refined atmosphere, rich history, and distinguished membership, along with a commitment to promoting diversity and inclusivity. It is a perfect place for the distinguished traveler and for those who appreciate the best of British culture and tradition. Unfortunately, the clubhouse can be quite dead at times. Moreover, the dining room service, like at the Oxford & Cambridge Club, requires each table to fill in an order form. To members of other clubs, this can seem not only cumbersome but also rather strange and impersonal.

Hello I will be visiting London in October of this year. Being of curios temperament I wonder if i may visit your club perhaps enjoy a meal and or at least experience its historical significance. I’d be thrilled to hear back from you. Thankyou

Regretfully this is merely a blog about London Clubs. We’re not affiliated with the Travellers, and you would have to contact them directly. Generally speaking clubs will only allow visitors from reciprocal clubs.

I have been a member of the Travellers’ for 30 years, and in all that time I have never managed to find the billiards room. Perhaps you might let me know where it is?

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Now that international travel is almost impossible, we are all trying to find various alternatives to quench our basic travel needs. There are many places online that could satisfy your wish for some “virtual” travelling and excitement. But have you ever come across this travel club that takes you to the places you’ve never even heard of before?

NomadMania  was initially launched in 2012 under a different name, to encourage travel, to assist travellers in keeping track of their travels and to provide ideas and inspiration of what to see through NomadMania’s  Series .

The current name and brand was launched in mid-2017 and the platform itself has evolved into a somewhat exclusive, yet welcoming to all, online travel club that features some of the most travelled people alive, including its Anglo-Greek founder Harry Mitsidis.

This is now a unique online platform for tracking your travels, as well for exploring the most hidden corners of the world. It features literally THOUSANDS of travelling points of interests divided into over 50 categories in the aforementioned  Series ! Caves, aquariums, dark travel and even pedestrian bridges across the world all get their due mention.

Apart from that, NomadMania is also the only place where highly ranked travellers (aka, the ones that have been to all or almost all countries in the world) are verified to ensure their travel claims are valid. So basically, this is the only place online that can give you an extensive list of these highly ranked travellers, but also offer you the assurance of the legitimacy of their claims. Moreover, NomadMania is certainly the best place online to trace the 250-or-so people who have visited every world country, which are listed as UN Masters.

NomadMania is now going even further by currently expanding a new list called “ Many Quirky Places ” (M@P) which adds to the exploring as well as to the exclusivity, because for sure no ordinary traveller has set foot onto almost any of these places!

What NomadMania “specializes” in most though, is an extensive division of territories. This results in 1301 (yes, you read it right – one thousand three hundreds and one) different  regions  which you can choose to explore.

NomadMania stresses that to really explore and immerse yourself in different cultures, you have to go further and dig way beyond just a capital or the most known points of a country. Hence, NomadMania’s motto “Endless Exploring…” – a motto which drives its members to go as far as they possibly can.

The division of a country into regions is based on five Criteria (territory, population, cultural importance, economic significance and tourist appeal). Countries are then divided relative to other countries too, so that the list of regions is rational and each country gets its relative worth in terms of regions.

So, let us dive into some of the unusual places which are separate regions – one of the 1301 – on this intriguing platform.

Annobón  is a tiny island of Equatorial Guinea consisting of the island of Annobón and its associated islets in the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean’s Cameroon line. There is no regular shipping service to the rest of Equatorial Guinea, and ships call as infrequently as every few months though there is an airport with occasional flights from the country’s capital Malabo.

The island only has about 5000 inhabitants and the official language is Spanish, but most of the inhabitants speak Annobonese, a creole form of Portuguese. The island’s main industries are fishing and forestry. On  NomadMania , a community of around 15.000 well-travelled people, only 25 nomads have marked this region as visited.

There are not that many things to see or do here. You could go see Lago a Pot, a crater lake near the center of the volcanic island, which you can get to by hiking through a valley filled with ceiba trees, huge ferns, and lots of moss. If you are more into fauna, Annobón has three endemic bird species and subspecies – so you could opt for some bird watching.

Puntland , officially the Puntland State of Somalia is a Federal Member State in northeastern Somalia. The name “Puntland” is derived from the Land of Punt mentioned in ancient Egyptian sources, although the exact location of the fabled territory is still a mystery.

Puntland is relatively peaceful compared to other regions of Somalia, however, according to the information you can find online: it is best to hire a local police unit for the day.

Somalia has the longest coast in Africa and Puntland possesses over a 1/3 of that, 1,000 km. So its beaches are largely untouched and you could indulge into exploring them, if you are up for a challenge. Visited: by 45 nomads on  NomadMania !

Labuan , officially the Federal Territory of Labuan, is a Federal Territory of Malaysia. It is located off the coast of the state of Sabah in East Malaysia.

Labuan’s capital Victoria is best known as an offshore financial centre offering international financial and business services. But still, not many tourists end up here, at least not by chance.

Most visitors consist of off-shore businesses and local bargain hunters. It is also a diving spot, so slightly more people have stumbled into these realms: a stunning number of  NomadMania’s  229 nomads.

Manus Island  is part of Manus Province in northern Papua New Guinea and is the largest of the Admiralty Islands.

It is covered in rugged jungles which can be broadly described as lowland tropical rain forest. The Austronesian Manus languages are spoken on the island.

Manus Island is home to the emerald green snail, whose shells were harvested to be sold as jewellery. If you are lucky, you might get to see some of them in their natural habitat.

The island is also sadly infamous as the location of one of Australia’s camps for the holding of  ‘illegal immigrants’.

This remote place has been visited by only 47 nomads on  NomadMania . Perhaps it is due to the Admiralty Islands being scattered, low-lying, mostly uninhabited atolls. On their official tourist website, they state that you should:  “Plan well for your Manusian adventure, as tourists are a rare sight here.”

You could also explore the small island of Tuluman that came into existence in the 1950s thanks to an undersea eruption and rapidly cooled lava.

Hungry for more? NomadMania also lists places like the province of Maniema in DR Congo, Niue, Bolivia’s Santa Cruz province, or Taiwan’s Kinmen and Matsu islands. And that’s before we even look at the M@P list, which includes unknown places with unlikely names such as Kastellorizo, Cayos Cochinos or Kapingamarangi!

EDITORS NOTE: THE NOMADMANIA SCHOLARSHIP FUND

Hey, Dan here – one of the things I really love about the NomadMania platform if their launch of a scholarship programme. It’s an idea I’ve always had, but never had the funds to bring to life – when I was in Indonesia, visiting  Raja Ampat , I realised that often people can’t explore their own country as the pricing is set for visitors only, and this shouldn’t be happening.

“The NomadMania’s charity division aims to help people from less privileged backgrounds experience more of the world. In order to help create a truly diverse community.2021 will be the inaugural year for NomadMania to  provide travel scholarship grants  to university students who are first-time travellers from countries with a relatively recent experience of enduring conflict, to and from which the NomadMania team feels travel can take place with adequate safety.”

As for me, I discovered on the platform that I’ve only visited 201 of the vast number of territories and regions on the platform with the  Falkland Islands  likely being the less visited by fellow travellers that I’ve managed to get too.

As the world changes right now, perhaps these far-flung corners will become more appealing.

Safe travels, Dan!

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Thanks so much for this.

My partner Maria and I had sold everything to travel full time just before Covid hit. We then got stuck in Albania for 3 months of lockdown haha. Seeing these unique places has given me a little bump in excitement for traveling again once we are allowed and its safe to do so.

Nice article

Great…that was really impressive. Mother nature has created such an amazing landscapes and structures which are beyond our imagination and creativity. I must tell you that your photography skills are amazing. The way you capture the place expresses the entire story. I have never heard of this island before. Awesome destination. Keep posting such amazing work and keep inspiring thousands like me.

This is amazing Dan. Harry has done a wonderful job curating the list of most unheard quirky places. Hope someday we can explore all these & much more in post Covid world

He has indeed – so many places I had never considered before!

Thank you man for all this information, it has been helpful. I have gone through the whole article but i have most liked the part of Lago a pot, a crater lake nearby Volcanic Island. Am actually interested in visiting the place. I wish Covid 19 could stop. I would wish to compare it with our local Mount Nyirangongo with an active volcano or lava. Am only interested in that.

I love the information about Manus Island, and i’d like to Visit this place some time!

yes, Emmanuel, You must definitely consider visitng Manus Island.

As i can imagine, the experience can be equated to the Gorilla tracking experience in the reknown Bwindi or Volcanoes of Rwanda.

Great article. What more can i say?

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Travellers Club – Voyages en Cargo by CMA CGM

Ms. véronique touze directrice.

CMA CGM group is a worldwide, well-known and respected shipowner. What is less known, perhaps, is that it also provides would-be passengers the opportunity to travel on one of their modern container vessels. Please tell us, first of all, about your travel agency. When was it established as part of CMA CGM Group, what is your headcount and what is your main line of business?

The Traveler’s Club Agency has been part of the CMA CGM Group for twenty years now.

The headcount is about twenty two people working in the CMA CGM tower in Marseille. Six travel agents work full time on Voyages en Cargo sales and marketing, while the rest of the team works as a traditional travel agency, booking all the hotels and flights for the CMA CGM employees and their companions.

How many people average a year travel aboard your vessels?

1,200 people travel every year on our vessels.

Which routes are the most popular generally?

Europe to USA (Liberty, Amerigo) https://voyagesencargo.com/lines/liberty-bridge-usa-uk-netherlands

https://voyagesencargo.com/lines/amerigo-spain-usa-italy

Europe to Asia (Fal 1) https://voyagesencargo.com/lines/fal-1-china-singapore-uk

Europe to South America (Sirius) https://voyagesencargo.com/lines/sirius-malta-spain-brazil

Could you provide us with a link to your routes, and available prices?

All our routes are available on our new website: https://voyagesencargo.com/lines

We have about thirty lines open today with an average price of 130 euros (the price is per day and per person including full board, excluding port taxes and deviation insurance, visas before or upon arrival at destination).

And our team is also there to answer customers and agencies’ questions.

Would-be passengers often ask about food, accommodation, on-board internet and where they are allowed to go. How would you respond to that?

FOOD Three meals are served a day. They are included in the cost of your cruise, prepared by the ship’s chef and served at set times in the officers’ mess. These daily meetings allow passengers and crew to chat in a friendly and convivial setting. You will be able to get to know the officers and hear their fascinating tales.

As a reminder, alcohol is forbidden on-board.

ACCOMMODATION The cabins on the cargo ships are generally spacious (from ten to forty square meters) and each is fitted with an en-suite bathroom plus toilet, a double bed or two single beds, a sofa, a desk and one or two portholes.

For washing clothes, most container ships provide laundry facilities, including washing machine, dryer, iron and ironing board. Sheets and towels are provided and a steward will keep the cabin clean. Passengers are in charge of leaving their cabin in good condition at the end of the cargo cruise.

INTERNET There is very limited access to internet on the vessel and priority must go to the crew. You have to see that as an opportunity to do a digital detox!

ACCESS ON THE VESSEL Some areas are reserved for the crew, most notably the navigation bridge and the engine room. However, passengers are often allowed to visit these places, provided they are discreet and do not get in the way of the crew working.

What would you say is the main difference between freighter cruises and more conventional cruises?

The main difference is that there is no entertainment and there are only between four and twelve passengers maximum on-board, but the most important thing is that ‘travelling’ by cargo ship really focuses on the origin of the word, ‘traveling’, which signifies traveling around a path but not arriving anywhere, as said by Hugo Verlomme.

Traveling by cargo ship is taking time to travel. It’s sharing unique experiences, it’s setting sail for adventure! Aboard commercial ships, you will sail across the oceans, following in the wake of the first great explorers and their resulting trade routes. For days or for months, you can make the most of your time aboard ship to escape from the tumult of modern life and rediscover the true meaning of travel.

Are your passengers generally older or are you also seeing a younger crowd enjoying this kind of ‘getaway’?

Most of our passengers are older people, but more and more we see the younger generation being attracted by this authentic and unique method of travel. As a reminder, cargo ships are accessible for anyone from sixteen to seventy seven 77 years old and it is imperative to be in good health.

What kind of feedback do you get from passengers?

Here are two testimonials we received recently:

Pierre G , on the CMA CGM LAPEROUSE “Already a month and the memory is so intense that the past is an illusion of the present. [I recall] the engine’s roar, the navigation bridge’s silence, the engine room’s smell, the cook’s perfume, the calm of the officers and the working port show. Do not hesitate, get away for a few days on a CMA CGM cargo ship!”

Aymaar S , on the CMA CGM BERLIOZ “The crew and officers [were] very kind and the captain acted [with] a huge kindness, open mind and disponsibility. The Strait of Gibraltar crossing at four a.m. was an unforgettable moment. Thank you so much!”

Could you provide us with some pictures of some of the available cabins on-board (from a couple of different routes) so that we can show our readers?

I have included several photos for you here and your readers can discover our routes here: https://voyagesencargo.com/lines

Whom is best to contact for further information about this very interesting way of traveling?

A team of experts is available to organize your trip: +33 4 88 91 75 20 contact@voyagesencargo.com

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Jamaica's laid-back lifestyle, beautiful scenery that spans Caribbean beaches and lush mountains, delicious cuisine, and vibrant culture make the island nation a popular vacation destination. And while the country's coastline is lined up with plenty of resorts , guests seeking privacy and top-notch amenities usually opt for one of the Tryall Club's villas , renowned for their personalized service and exclusive amenities.

Now, the property has added two more stunning residences to its existing portfolio of 74 villas spread around 2,200 acres just 20 minutes from Montego Bay's Sangster International Airport.

Oceana, a six-bedroom compound that accommodates 12, nestled on a hill among abundant greenery and palm trees, comprises a main house, a carriage house, a guest house with island views, and two pools with in-water sunbeds and a hot tub. The spacious accommodations feature en-suite bathrooms with wood and natural accents.

The master bedroom also has an outdoor shower and a bathroom with a soaking tub that looks out to beautiful views. Guests of Oceana can also keep active in the villa's gym or drive their golf cart — one of four — to the club's communal tennis and pickleball courts. The residence comes with a dedicated staff of six: a butler, a chef, a laundress, two gardeners, and two housekeepers.

The second villa, Love&Livity, incorporates modern interiors with the island's lush flora. The five-bedroom, two-story property boasts a massive wraparound balcony with several lounge areas and a game room.

The bedrooms and open floor plan living room/dining room have floor-to-ceiling windows and French doors for seamless indoor/outdoor transition. The villa's private pool is surrounded by a paved sundeck with sun loungers and native plants and flowers that deliver extra privacy.

Tryall also recently added a new spa to its club amenities. The space, housed in a former villa, is led by a holistic farm-to-spa concept and offers face and body treatments with plants and herbs grown on-site. Guests can indulge in sound therapy, yoga, meditation, and guided breathing sessions. 

Travelers also have access to Tryall's world-class 18-hole golf course, a beach club with a swimming pool overlooking a golden swath of coastline, and two restaurants that source fresh produce and ingredients from local vendors.

Weekly rates at Oceana start from $26,000, and Love&Livity starts from $19,000. You can book your stay at tryallclub.com .

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Parking, Travel & Free Public Shuttle

Find out more about parking, travel and the free public bus shuttle service to the 2024 Genesis Scottish Open at The Renaissance Club.

Travel By Car

We have directions from five nearby cities to The Renaissance Club which can help you whether you plan on travelling by car or public transport. 

Click here if travelling from Edinburgh. Click here if travelling from Falkirk. Click here if travelling from Glasgow. Click here if Travelling from Kirkcaldy. Click here if travelling from Newcastle upon Tyne.

Spectators should follow the yellow AA event signage which will direct you to the public car park. 

There will be no access to The Renaissance Club for spectators’ vehicles, except those with valid car park labels.

Travel By Train & Free Public Shuttle

Spectators travelling by train should stop at the Longniddry Rail Station. All ticket holders will be able to use the free bus service, which will drop you off at the entrance to the Genesis Scottish Open. Shuttles will meet each train at Longniddry travelling both from Edinburgh and to Edinburgh.

Please find below the times for trains and buses travelling from Longniddry and North Berwick to Edinburgh Waverley: (note: timings subject to change).

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Sunday: 18:20, 19:25, 20:19**

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Saturday: 18:37 19:05, 19:45

Sunday: 18:33, 19:38, 20:33

124 Bus Times

Saturday: 18:30, 19:30, 20:00,.20:45, 21:55, 23:00

Sunday: Same as Above

Click here to view the free shuttle bus timetable.

Accessibility Information

There will be dedicated disabled spaces on site for spectators whose vehicles display a blue badge. The disabled car park is situated in Car Park 2. Wheelchair users will need to contact [email protected] in order to make arrangements in advance and gain admission to the site.

Spectators wanting to rent an electric scooter will be able to do so at the Event Mobility tent located in the village. Event Mobility is a charity and kindly asks for a donation of £35 for using electric scooters and £15 for the manual wheelchairs. These can be pre-booked on their website with the link here .

Spectators can also pick them up on the day and these are available on a first come first served basis.

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Taxi and Uber drop off and collection is available and will be at the public car park only. There is strictly no Taxi/Uber drop off at The Renaissance Club for General ticket holders. 

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Manchester United staff ‘dismayed’ as club scrap free travel and food for FA Cup final

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Manchester United staff have reportedly been left ‘dismayed’ after INEOS and Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s cost-cutting saw the removal of employee perks for the upcoming FA Cup final.

Erik ten Hag ’s side threatened a historic collapse against Coventry City after squandering a 3-0 lead against the Championship side in normal time but eked through to next month’s final after a penalty shootout victory.

United will face rivals Manchester City in the showpiece event for a second successive season but the occasion will be markedly different for the club’s staff after a decision from the club’s new co-owners.

In the past, staff members had received multiple tickets for friends and family which also came with free transport to the game.

Club directors were also treated to a pre-match meal as well as a party and accommodation in London following the fixture.

However, according to The Times, those benefits have now been scrapped, with all staff members and directors now gifted just one ticket and required to pay for their own transport – a £20 return fare for a coach to Wembley.

It marks the latest in a number of cost-cutting measures from INEOS as they look to curb expenses and help United, who spent £183.5 million on new signings last summer , comply with profit and sustainability rules.

Earlier in the month, the club removed company credit cards for some senior figures while also scaling back the use of private chauffeurs for some of the backroom staff.

In an email announcing the latest changes, which has been seen by the Times, the club noted that this year’s Wembley trip would ‘be a little different’.

‘We will still provide you with a complimentary ticket to the game. However, we’ll ask you to contribute towards coach travel, and lunch will not be provided,’ the email continued.

‘While we appreciate this is a change from previous trips, you will all be aware of the need for us to spend the club’s money effectively, with a focus on performance and outcomes.

‘We hope that this year’s trip balances the opportunity for you to go to Wembley to support our players while also ensuring we can invest as much as possible into the club over the coming months to achieve our goal of returning Manchester United back to the top of English, European and world football.’

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Why Meghan Markle and children Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet will not travel to the UK with Harry next month

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The Duke of Sussex is reportedly visiting the UK next month, to attend the Invictus Games’ 10th Anniversary Service which will be held on 8 May at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London.

Although Harry’s appearance is yet to be confirmed, with reports also indicating he may choose to appear via video call, three people that are very unlikely to attend are the Duchess of Sussex and their two children Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet .

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Also in the episode, Hannah talks at length about Meghan’s latest venture, her lifestyle brand American Riviera Orchard , and her company’s first product, which she has sent to fifty of her nearest and dearest, a personalised homemade jar of jam.

“This isn't necessarily what we were led to expect when they first left the royal family. There was a lot of talk about philanthropy. They did all these events not long after they left the UK: Black Lives Matter, gender equality, voting in America, all kinds of topics that are quite serious and quite philanthropic. And that has spun out and sort of quietly disappeared, and in its place, we have this new product range, which will be coming out in the next month or so."

“It’s exciting,” she adds. “The royal beat has become quite difficult this year and quite challenging. It's been quite sad actually, in a lot of ways. So, this is quite a nice boost.”

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During the new episode, co-hosts Andrea and Emmy talk to Emily about Prince Louis’ ‘unedited’ sixth birthday portrait, taken by mum Kate, as well as to colleagues Sophie Hamilton, who travelled to Bucharest with Sarah, Duchess of York , to an orphanage, and Alexandra Hurtado, who interviewed Prince Harry’s best friend Nacho Figueras ahead of their polo match in Florida earlier this month in aid of Sentebale.

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