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Family Holidays
Our team is full of family travellers, meaning we know what it takes to make sure everyone enjoys the experience just as much as each other.
Honeymoons
We’ve been crafting dream itineraries for newly married couples for years. Learn more about the ins and outs of our honeymoon service here.
Solo Holidays
Our travel experts have experienced the thrills and challenges of solo travel, all with the aim of producing some of our most immersive and exciting itineraries.
Couples Holidays
Our couple itineraries are paced perfectly for you to enjoy the very best a country has to offer whilst making sure you enjoy the quality time together you’re after.
Group Holidays
No matter what the size or the occasion, we’re well versed in taking larger groups of people away for those special adventures.
Safari Holidays
With a team of experts that have worked as conservationists and wildlife photographers, we have the expertise to make your safari dreams come true.
Remote Destinations
We’ve chosen these experiences, destinations and adventures to bring you closer to the great outdoors. This is your ticket to our wonderful world.
Unusual Holidays
The world may be conquered, but enough secrets remain to keep us up all night, dreaming of ways to whisk you off to the most unique corners of the globe. Where first?
Adventure Holidays
Hike across mountain ridgelines, scramble across glaciers and kayak down rivers – these trips are designed to immerse you in vast wildernesses and ancient cultures.
Beach Holidays
Porcelain shores, perfect seas and swaying palms; the allure of a beach break is hard to ignore. Which is why we handpick the best beachfront boltholes to offer you…
Food Holidays
Food and travel have long gone hand in hand, and we have put together some mouth-watering trips that capture the palate, of countries across the world. Bon appétit.
Slow Travel
As the world becomes busier, slow travel has never felt so fitting. Whether it’s meeting fishermen in Maine or learning the Dukha-way in Mongolia, take time to connect.
Eclipse Holidays
Eclipse travel celebrates our place in the wider cosmos. Let us take you to wherever in the world the eclipse is at its most arresting, and we’ll do it in style.
Proposal Service
Found the one and want to propose in style? The moment will be a memory forever and we’re here to help you make sure it’s the most perfect moment for you and your loved one.
Train Travel
“It’s not the destination, it’s the journey.” We’ve all heard this, haven’t we? And with these captivating luxury train journeys, we’ll show you the joy to be found travelling across the world by rail.
The Pursuit of Feeling
From impassioned and emotive journeys, to podcasts and our Feelings Engine, you’ll find something to move you and something to soothe you. We want to fire your heart and provide food for your soul.
Set Jetting
Swapping salubrious saloons and questionable lodgings for sumptuous hotels and eye-opening experiences, each of our show-stopping journeys will take you behind scenes of some of TV’s most awe-inspiring locations.
See You in the Moment
You need only bring yourselves – your people, your histories. We’ll provide the moment itself. The anticipation, the togetherness, the memory. This is something to savour. This is something to remember.
Field Trip
Education begins in the classroom, but it’s IRL that younger generations put their lessons to the test. Field Trip is a curriculum of educational encounters around the world.
Take me on a Story
A series of family experiences celebrating the transformative power of the books we loved when we were young, and the stories our children have come to adore.
Get Lost
Designed as a once-in-a-lifetime challenge, train with elite survival experts before traversing a polar, jungle, coastal, mountain or desert region in your mission back to civilisation.
Blink
The ultimate luxury camping retreat. From the Sahara desert to the Andean Mountains, with Blink anywhere you can envisage it, we will create it.
Bring it Back
Bring It Back will embed you in an entirely different way of thinking, and of learning about a culture directly from its experts on the ground. You may be surprised by what you discover.
The Great American View
This series of breathtaking journeys culminate in some of America’s most legendary sights. They are the places you’ve always sought out, and now it’s your time to find them.
James Bond
We are proud to have been selected as the official travel partner to curate James Bond inspired trips.
Agatha Christie
We’ve been hand-picked by Agatha Christie Limited to help bring Agatha’s world-famous Grand Tour to life through a series of episodic trips across Africa, Australasia and North America, and a unique prelude in London.
Tasting Notes
Eating at a Michelin – starred restaurant is one thing. But now you can learn about the country through the lens of some of the most critically acclaimed chefs in the world, by travelling with them on the ultimately culinary experience
Eater Journeys
We’re often asked who we’d invite to our ideal dinner party. Ernest Shackleton? Amelia Earheart? The entire editorial team of Eater? Easily. So we invited our friends at Eater over to dinner and quizzed them about their favourite foodie trips and then created them for you to experience too.
Surf Air
We’re proud to launch a brand-new series of exclusive US trips with ground-breaking private air company Surf Air. Bringing our combined knowledge of ground and sky together, we’re helping you to see the world in style.
Take the Open Road with Auberge
With the iconic hotel brand Auberge Resorts, we’ve created a new series of tailormade, luxurious road trip itineraries. Emblems of America’s most iconic landscapes, regions, and people.
Remarkable Drives of Discovery with Auberge
Following on from the much lauded ‘Take the Open Road’ series, here’s five brand-new bespoke, multi-destination trips created with our friends at Auberge Resorts Collection. Delve deeper than ever before.
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Lace-up, strap in and get ready to discover the heart and soul of Texas: its iconic cowboy culture. The Texan cowboy is symbolic to the state’s image. It’s a distinctive social subculture, a unique style of dress and a lifetime’s worth of acquired riding skills – on both horse and cattle.
Spending five minutes in the scorching Texan sun can take its toll, let alone a whole day on horseback, so it is important to be correctly dressed. Aesthetics meets ergonomics with the cowboy hat. There are many different styles, but the popular wide rimmed, pastel coloured hat will keep a cowboy shaded from the baking midday sun, as well as setting them apart in the world of cowboy fashion.
Cowboy boots, known for high heels and high rise sides are also designed with practicalities in mind: the heel stops the shoe from slipping out of the stirrups, and the high top protects against the elements. The boots may also feature detachable spurs on the heels, made infamous by the wild west on the silver screen.
Finally, denim is de rigueur, with sturdy jeans and a thick comfy jacket needed to keep the dust off and for protection from the elements and animals. A couple of optional extras are the belt with a chunky buckle, some deer skin gloves and a red patterned neckerchief to protect a cowboy from breathing in too much dust.
Rodeo cowboys are now professionals in their own right, but the original working cowboys (as they are now known) would work on ranches and then display their skills at the rodeo show. Despite all the clichés, attending a rodeo is one of the most exhilarating and authentic experiences you can do in Texas. Most large towns in the state will hold regular rodeo’s that take place in the town’s bull ring.
The rodeo activities include a number of tasks that Cowboys need to know for working on the ranch. Competitions like calf roping, where the Cowboy on horseback chases after a calf, lassos it, and ties it up are key skills needed for working on the ranch, but others like barrel racing (where riders race a slalom course between barrels) and bull riding (where the Cowboy attempts to cling on to a bucking bull) are just for a bit of adrenalin-pumping fun. During the intermission, there will be a heap of western-themed entertainment acts, music and even trick riding to keep the audience occupied.
Country and Western music and dancing are synonymous with Cowboy culture, and are the best ways of socialising in Texas. “Kicker dancing” as the locals call it occurs in many of the bars. Another common style is square and line dancing, ideal for anyone too shy to dance with a partner.
The musical themes often feature references to cowboy culture, and the style has also taken influence from the genres of big band, boogie, bluegrass, jazz and rockabilly, leading to an amalgamation of sounds that can only be experienced by visiting an authentic bar. Glide your way onto the dance floor and follow the lead of the others as they scoot and shimmy with effortless elegance.
