Gill Haynes

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Gill Haynes

A travel writer with more than 30 years experience in the travel industry, Gill loves the great outdoors. Her favourite destination is South Africa where one walking safari involved scrambling up a tree to avoid a charging rhino. A keen skier, mountain biker and windsurfer, Gill’s up for doing as much and travelling as often as her years allow. Still on the wish list are canoeing the Great Lakes in Canada and swimming with manta rays in the Maldives.
Golden Circle Tour of Iceland

Golden Circle Tour of Iceland

Gill Haynes explores Reykjavik, Isafjordur, Akureyri and Seydisfjordur on a Golden Circle Tour of Iceland. With the news full of wild fires this summer, seeing smoke billowing from the horizon…

On Safari in the Okavango Delta Botswana

On Safari in the Okavango Delta Botswana

Gill Haynes goes on an Okavango Delta safari in Botswana where the local wildlife steals the show. It was the first time we’d flown between safari camps in a small…

A First-timer’s Take on River Cruising in Europe

A First-timer’s Take on River Cruising in Europe

Gill Haynes goes river cruising in Europe with Avalon Waterway’s Danube Symphony, and discovers the experience surprisingly liberating. If you think cruising isn’t for you, you may be missing out…