Debbie Ward
 Debbie Ward has spent more than 15 years as a journalist, several as Features Editor of Travel Trade Gazette.
 She now works freelance.
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A café that's simply top dog - Metro

I'm just a few streets away from the Seoul cafe I'm headed for but feel hopelessly lost and stop to ask a businessman the way. It's only once I've passed him my internet print-out that I remember the address sits below a picture of a waiter scooping a turd off the floor.  More...
 
Sydney City Guide
Cruise International


Sydney has perhaps the most iconic harbour in the world and a cruise arrival or departure here More...
 
   
The Greatest Gift List? - Honeymoons & Weddings Abroad

There was a time when family and friends would have contributed to a dinner service to mark your big day, buying their gifts from a bridal registry you had placed with the likes of John Lewis or M&S.  More...
 
Friend or Foe? - Museums Journal

In our relationships with our friends we all know that there's a certain amount of give and take needed.  More...
 
   
A Walk on the Wild Side - Commercial Sri Lanka supplement, The Times

Backlit by the dawn, a pack of jackals rises from the dusty ground.  The animals yawn and arch their backs to stretch out their limbs.  Behind them an elephant flings its trunk upwards and pulls its mouth into an enormous 'O'.  More...
 
Single travellers -
Abta Magazine


Whether unattached amid coupled-up friends and family or just into travel experiences
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Stargazing in Surrey - Surrey Life

Conditions are right says the message on the website, the meet is on. I pull on my hoodie, print off the directions and make my way to the rendezvous point on Albury Heath. Switching to sidelights for my final approach, I inch my car towards the red beams that are weaving between the trees ahead.

An illegal rave? Actually, it's a Guildford Astronomical Society (GAS) observing session and the only dancing I'm anticipating will be to keep my feet warm.  More...
 
Explore Eilat

All copy for offical Eilat website based on a research trip to the Red Sea resort.

Click here to visit the Explore Eilat website
 
   
Souks & the City: Escape to Marrakech - The Travel & Leisure Magazine

"Peegeensheet", my guide kept repeating, pointing at the stinking stone vats of Marrakech's back street tannery where all around me animal hides were soaking. The phrase, and indeed the smell, seemed familiar but it was only when he resorted to the French expletive "merde!" that I was sure: the vessels were indeed filled with pigeon excrement.  More...
 
Thailand Travel Guide - Selling Long Haul, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2012 editions

2008, 2009, 2010 and 2012 editions of this 50 page guide aimed at travel agents.  More...