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Welcome
to the travel writing and consultancy 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 a number of years now, but this site is designed to showcase our broader view of the travel
industry, from our freelance writing to our ability to assist and inspire people in the business itself.
First
and foremost, we have a unique perspective of our various travels in America and Europe 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 15
years 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 they can enhance
what they do. This means we have two distinct - and very separate - aspects to our work:
1) Our freelance travel-writing,
which encompasses such wide-ranging media as newspapers, consumer magazines (like World of Cruising magazine, Europe's premier publication on cruising and cruise ships), travel brochures, in-flight magazines, website
copy, Internet discussion forums, blogs and newsletters. If you want to read more about our writing, click here: Recent Travels; To commission us for work, click here Contact Us.
And 2) Our travel consultancy, which offers a new look at PR and marketing for
a broad variety of tourism organizations, attractions and other businesses that have a strong travel component. Basically,
if you need to accentuate the positive in your travel business, we can help drive more customers your way. If you'd like
to read more about our consultancy services and contact us for more information, click here: Services.
STOP PRESS! Be sure to check out our Blog pages to read about our latest travel
discovery - the magnificent Boyne Country in Northern Michigan. This is a destination just waiting to happen.
To find out why, read here!
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 regular Sports Blog, Here, or see his View From America columns for SkySports.com, Here.
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And there's more....our recent extensive trip to Alaska (for a big section in the Spring 09 edition of 
