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The Transatlantic Travel-Writing
Team Experts for Orlando, Disney, the Theme Parks, Cruising and Much More! venesstravelmedia@yahoo.com The weather where we are:
The UK's Best-Selling Travel
By Susan Veness
The perfect companion to any
Walt Disney World visit, the new Hidden Magic Planner provides a full narrative tour of Walt's amazing vacation kingdom, highlighting
all the essential 'magic' sprinkled throughout the parks, resorts and Downtown Disney, and giving guests the ideal way to
record and store their own experiences along the way. It's not a guide - it's a memory maker.
 And there's more, much more. Our travels in recent years have taken us from Alaska (see left) to Arizona;
Bowling Green to Barcelona; from the tropical Caribbean to the sub-Arctic Canadian border; and to every Super Bowl city in
the past 10 years! We have undertaken fun family RV journeys (see our Blog, here) and glamorous cruises; explored Florida from top to bottom; had breakfast the length and breadth of I-75 (don't ask -it's
a long story!); and unearthed a vast treasure-trove of wonderful and offbeat experiences along the way. In 2010 and '11
we visited the likes of Chilean Patagonia, Santiago and the superb wine region of the Colchagua Valley, and undertook
a 2,300-mile journey through the heart of Europe by car, taking in major cities like Amsterdam, Berlin, Prague, Munich
and Salzburg, fascinating off-the-beaten track villages, like Berchtesgaden and Hitler's Eagle's Nest (below), and the
ultimate heartbreak of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. Closer-to-home, we have had many encounters with the fantastic new
Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Orlando, blissful St Petersburg on the Gulf Coast and the hidden gem of Mount
Dora in Central Florida. We enjoyed a stunning Fall Foliage cruise along the St Lawrence Seaway and around New England
with Crystal Cruises to see the region's autumn spectacular from a different vantage point, and also spent time aboard the
Disney Dream and Allure of the Seas, two of the biggest and most eye-catching new ships of recent years, as well as the Celebrity
Eclipse, one of the remarkable Solstice-class vessels of Celebrity Cruises.
 But there's always room for more, and 2012 promises even more in the way of adventures and
travel insight, including a visit to Indianapolis for Super Bowl XLVI, a voyage aboard the truly epic Norwegian Epic cruise
ship, the launch of the Disney Fantasy (sister ship to the Dream), a long-awaited return trip to Southern Africa (where Simon
went to school), a river-journey on the Upper Amazon in Peru, and some time with friends and family back in the UK! So stay
tuned as we continue our wonderful world journey that never ceases to intrigue and amaze, and follow along with our various
writing in the UK and US travel media, on Facebook, in various Blogs and in the pages of our favorite online resource, the
discussion forums of Attraction Tickets Direct, here.
Now follow us on Facebook, too!
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Welcome
to the travel writing home of Simon and Susan Veness, a unique combination of Anglo-American insight, ingenuity and innovation
in the wide world of travel media.
We have been well-known for our work with the Brit Guide travel series - specializing in all things to do with Central Florida, Disney, the theme parks, cruising and
Disneyland Paris - for almost 20 years, but this site is designed to showcase a broader view of our work, from other
books, to the wide variety of newspapers and magazines we write for, and our many online ventures.
First
and foremost, we have a unique perspective of our various travels worldwide as we started very much as Joe Tourist ourselves,
holiday-makers with a keen eye for detail who demand value for money in all aspects of a vacation. Then, with multiple editions of
the Brit Guide and other writing behind us (including a wide range of sources on the Internet), we have built up an amazing
rapport with our readers that allows us to key in directly to what they are looking for and how they view their own vacations.
On top of that, we have developed an acute insight into what makes the various attractions tick - how well they
work (or otherwise), what their most positive attributes are and, more importantly, how people can best enjoy them.
Our freelance travel-writing encompasses such wide-ranging media as glossy consumer magazines (like World of Cruising, Europe's premier publication on cruising and cruise ships, and the magazine's blog, Time Spent At Sea), and Orlando Attractions magazine (a great new publication on the Orlando theme parks scene); some of Britain's top newspapers, notably the Daily
Telegraph, Mail on Sunday and The Independent; travel brochures; regional guides (like the Great Lakes of North America); in-flight magazines; website copy; Internet discussion forums; and various blogs. If you want to read more about our writing,
click here: Recent Travels; To commission us for work, click here Contact Us.
And there's more! Simon's background in sports journalism means we often
include sporting events of all kinds in our travels. Simon has covered a wide range of sporting events in the past 25 years,
including the Super Bowl, Major League Baseball, Wimbledon tennis, Premiership soccer and even boxing, and he continues to
write for various newspapers on American sport. He is uniquely placed to contribute articles on US events for UK media, and
to provide a British perspective on American sporting occasions. In fact, we'd go as far as to say that a visit to a baseball
game, or basketball, football or (ice) hockey is an essential part of any visit to the USA, and we are big flag-wavers
for sampling life through the local sporting institutions. To view some of his sports-writing work, you can read his see his View From America columns for SkySports.com, Here.
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Veness Travel Media is officially
a Sponsor of WDWCelebrations, a non-profit organization to promote special gatherings and other events at the Walt Disney
World parks. Look up more at www.wdwcelebrations.com.
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VENESS TRAVEL MEDIA Proud supporters of:
The Give Kids The World Village in Kissimmee, FL, supporting the wishes of all children with life-threatening illnesses and their families from around the
world to experience a memorable, joyful, cost-free visit to the Central Florida attractions.
AND:
American Friends of Maru-A-Pula School in Gaborone, Botswana, a unique educational establishment in Southern Africa that runs
rare and valuable bursary and orphan programs for the under-privileged in a caring, high-quality environment.
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Proud member of the
following organization:
Copyright Simon and Susan Veness, 2012
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