Mike MacEacheran
@mikemaceacheran.bsky.social
Travel journalist: BBC, Nat Geo, Times, Telegraph, Guardian, FT, CN Traveller, Lonely Planet, Indy, WaPo, T&L, Wanderlust, Afar, WSJ, Bloomberg, GEO, Which?
mike.maceacheran@gmail.com / mikemaceacheran.com
mike.maceacheran@gmail.com / mikemaceacheran.com
January 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Silvesterklaus: the absurd New Year’s tradition nowhere else can match. 👺
Happy New Year from #Appenzellerland everyone 🇨🇭
@myswitzerland.bsky.social #Switzerland
Happy New Year from #Appenzellerland everyone 🇨🇭
@myswitzerland.bsky.social #Switzerland
January 1, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Silvesterklaus: the absurd New Year’s tradition nowhere else can match. 👺
Happy New Year from #Appenzellerland everyone 🇨🇭
@myswitzerland.bsky.social #Switzerland
Happy New Year from #Appenzellerland everyone 🇨🇭
@myswitzerland.bsky.social #Switzerland
Swisstwixmas: the best way to end the year 🇨🇭🎿
December 30, 2024 at 5:23 PM
Swisstwixmas: the best way to end the year 🇨🇭🎿
Christmas party for one this afternoon, just me and my sticky toffee pud. But, hey, what happens at a me party, stays at a me party... Merry Christmas all!
#freelancer #travel #meparty 🎉
#freelancer #travel #meparty 🎉
December 20, 2024 at 1:57 PM
Christmas party for one this afternoon, just me and my sticky toffee pud. But, hey, what happens at a me party, stays at a me party... Merry Christmas all!
#freelancer #travel #meparty 🎉
#freelancer #travel #meparty 🎉
Reposted by Mike MacEacheran
It's been a wild ride in travel writing this year...
17 overseas trips, including 🇫🇴🇵🇪🇱🇹🇨🇦🇺🇸🇨🇭🇩🇪 🇦🇹🇫🇷🇳🇱
10 home trips 🏴
So, a heartfelt thanks to the PRs, tourist boards, writers & editors who continue to make it possible for me to have the world's best job. Merry Xmas everyone!🎄
17 overseas trips, including 🇫🇴🇵🇪🇱🇹🇨🇦🇺🇸🇨🇭🇩🇪 🇦🇹🇫🇷🇳🇱
10 home trips 🏴
So, a heartfelt thanks to the PRs, tourist boards, writers & editors who continue to make it possible for me to have the world's best job. Merry Xmas everyone!🎄
December 10, 2024 at 12:32 PM
It's been a wild ride in travel writing this year...
17 overseas trips, including 🇫🇴🇵🇪🇱🇹🇨🇦🇺🇸🇨🇭🇩🇪 🇦🇹🇫🇷🇳🇱
10 home trips 🏴
So, a heartfelt thanks to the PRs, tourist boards, writers & editors who continue to make it possible for me to have the world's best job. Merry Xmas everyone!🎄
17 overseas trips, including 🇫🇴🇵🇪🇱🇹🇨🇦🇺🇸🇨🇭🇩🇪 🇦🇹🇫🇷🇳🇱
10 home trips 🏴
So, a heartfelt thanks to the PRs, tourist boards, writers & editors who continue to make it possible for me to have the world's best job. Merry Xmas everyone!🎄
I like to moove it moove it: here's a story about An Uiseag 9th of Eileanmore and Banarach Ban of Achinreir, part of the world's only Highland cow ice cream herd, for my new road trip feature around sustainable #Argyll and the #Highlands for natgeo.com/travel #coosday #travel #Scotland
December 11, 2024 at 9:54 AM
I like to moove it moove it: here's a story about An Uiseag 9th of Eileanmore and Banarach Ban of Achinreir, part of the world's only Highland cow ice cream herd, for my new road trip feature around sustainable #Argyll and the #Highlands for natgeo.com/travel #coosday #travel #Scotland
It's been a wild ride in travel writing this year...
17 overseas trips, including 🇫🇴🇵🇪🇱🇹🇨🇦🇺🇸🇨🇭🇩🇪 🇦🇹🇫🇷🇳🇱
10 home trips 🏴
So, a heartfelt thanks to the PRs, tourist boards, writers & editors who continue to make it possible for me to have the world's best job. Merry Xmas everyone!🎄
17 overseas trips, including 🇫🇴🇵🇪🇱🇹🇨🇦🇺🇸🇨🇭🇩🇪 🇦🇹🇫🇷🇳🇱
10 home trips 🏴
So, a heartfelt thanks to the PRs, tourist boards, writers & editors who continue to make it possible for me to have the world's best job. Merry Xmas everyone!🎄
December 10, 2024 at 12:32 PM
It's been a wild ride in travel writing this year...
17 overseas trips, including 🇫🇴🇵🇪🇱🇹🇨🇦🇺🇸🇨🇭🇩🇪 🇦🇹🇫🇷🇳🇱
10 home trips 🏴
So, a heartfelt thanks to the PRs, tourist boards, writers & editors who continue to make it possible for me to have the world's best job. Merry Xmas everyone!🎄
17 overseas trips, including 🇫🇴🇵🇪🇱🇹🇨🇦🇺🇸🇨🇭🇩🇪 🇦🇹🇫🇷🇳🇱
10 home trips 🏴
So, a heartfelt thanks to the PRs, tourist boards, writers & editors who continue to make it possible for me to have the world's best job. Merry Xmas everyone!🎄
November 30, 2024 at 7:29 PM
🚨 Sloth news! This three-toed mum and newborn held the same yoga pose for about an hour this morning. Another little bit of Amazon magic from life in the slow lane. 🦥
November 29, 2024 at 6:36 PM
🚨 Sloth news! This three-toed mum and newborn held the same yoga pose for about an hour this morning. Another little bit of Amazon magic from life in the slow lane. 🦥
Jaw ready for this?
Picked up a rod, went fishing, used chicken as bait, hooked a piranha in seconds, may have shrieked a bit.
Mortimer & Whitehouse ain’t got nothing on me. 🎣
Picked up a rod, went fishing, used chicken as bait, hooked a piranha in seconds, may have shrieked a bit.
Mortimer & Whitehouse ain’t got nothing on me. 🎣
November 28, 2024 at 11:48 AM
Jaw ready for this?
Picked up a rod, went fishing, used chicken as bait, hooked a piranha in seconds, may have shrieked a bit.
Mortimer & Whitehouse ain’t got nothing on me. 🎣
Picked up a rod, went fishing, used chicken as bait, hooked a piranha in seconds, may have shrieked a bit.
Mortimer & Whitehouse ain’t got nothing on me. 🎣
I’m now in the Amazon (the WiFi is better than at home in Scotland) and in 24hrs I’ve met a shamanistic healer, sampled psychoactive ayahuasca, done the rounds with a rainforest GP and gone to school. #Peru
November 27, 2024 at 5:20 PM
I’m now in the Amazon (the WiFi is better than at home in Scotland) and in 24hrs I’ve met a shamanistic healer, sampled psychoactive ayahuasca, done the rounds with a rainforest GP and gone to school. #Peru
St Pierre and Miquelon? I wasn’t exactly sure where it was either. So I went for The Telegraph and loved it (it’s off the coast of #Newfoundland, by the way).
www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/desti...
www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/desti...
The curious North American islands which still belong to France
Our writer explores the French archipelago of St Pierre and Miquelon which sits off Newfoundland
www.telegraph.co.uk
November 27, 2024 at 5:10 PM
St Pierre and Miquelon? I wasn’t exactly sure where it was either. So I went for The Telegraph and loved it (it’s off the coast of #Newfoundland, by the way).
www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/desti...
www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/desti...
I went to the Faroe Islands for the first time for The Times. Unquestionably, it was the #travel highlight of the year (I wasn’t too happy about eating dried whale though). #travel #Faroes 🇫🇴
www.thetimes.com/travel/inspi...
www.thetimes.com/travel/inspi...
Europe’s most magical capital — that you’ve never heard of
A new, direct flight is your ticket to tiny Torshavn and its enchanting landscapes of heart-stopping fjords, cinematic waterfalls and fortress-like islands
www.thetimes.com
November 27, 2024 at 5:08 PM
I went to the Faroe Islands for the first time for The Times. Unquestionably, it was the #travel highlight of the year (I wasn’t too happy about eating dried whale though). #travel #Faroes 🇫🇴
www.thetimes.com/travel/inspi...
www.thetimes.com/travel/inspi...
Another one for The Guardian: writing about two sublime hideaways in the Alps for this winter ❄️ #France #Switzerland
www.theguardian.com/travel/2024/...
www.theguardian.com/travel/2024/...
Six of the best winter mountain breaks in Europe
From the Arctic Circle to Slovenia’s Julian Alps, we pick scenic and soothing retreats to don snowshoes, ski empty pistes and tune into winter
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2024 at 5:04 PM
Another one for The Guardian: writing about two sublime hideaways in the Alps for this winter ❄️ #France #Switzerland
www.theguardian.com/travel/2024/...
www.theguardian.com/travel/2024/...
I’m a big fan of #Austria (give me a schnitzel and Stiegl and I’m in heaven), so it was a thrill to round-up all the best ski resorts for National Geographic Traveller 🎿
www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/artic...
www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/artic...
The best ski areas in Austria this season
Austria’s mix of beginner slopes, black runs and mountainside culture works for all — from fun-seeking families to hardcore off-pisters.
www.nationalgeographic.com
November 27, 2024 at 4:56 PM
I’m a big fan of #Austria (give me a schnitzel and Stiegl and I’m in heaven), so it was a thrill to round-up all the best ski resorts for National Geographic Traveller 🎿
www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/artic...
www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/artic...
I used every pork pun I could get my trotters on for this piece about a trip to the Peppa Pig theme park in #Germany for The Times. I was happy as a pig in shit, naturally. 🐷
www.thetimes.com/travel/desti...
www.thetimes.com/travel/desti...
Our fun-filled German holiday … to the new Peppa Pig theme park
This new attraction in Günzburg, southern Bavaria, is a dream for children (and their parents), says Mike MacEacheran
www.thetimes.com
November 27, 2024 at 4:53 PM
I used every pork pun I could get my trotters on for this piece about a trip to the Peppa Pig theme park in #Germany for The Times. I was happy as a pig in shit, naturally. 🐷
www.thetimes.com/travel/desti...
www.thetimes.com/travel/desti...
What else? There’s this on Scotland’s unknown Stonehenge for BBC Travel (and I’d really urge you to go). #Scotland #travel
www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
The unknown story of Scotland's 'Stonehenge'
Forgotten for centuries, Kilmartin Glen in Argyll is one of Britain's most important archaeological landscapes – but most people have never heard of it.
www.bbc.com
November 27, 2024 at 4:50 PM
What else? There’s this on Scotland’s unknown Stonehenge for BBC Travel (and I’d really urge you to go). #Scotland #travel
www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
I cycled 275km across #Brittany and #Normandy for The Guardian in this travel piece. I ate galettes, drank cider and got a ridiculously sore arse. #France #travel 🚴♂️
www.theguardian.com/travel/artic...
www.theguardian.com/travel/artic...
Tour de France: the new cycle route from Nantes to Mont-Saint-Michel
La Régalante is a 170-mile cycle network linking historic villages, windmills and abbeys in less-visited parts of Brittany and the Atlantic Loire, with pitstops at lovely bars and B&Bs
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2024 at 4:48 PM
I cycled 275km across #Brittany and #Normandy for The Guardian in this travel piece. I ate galettes, drank cider and got a ridiculously sore arse. #France #travel 🚴♂️
www.theguardian.com/travel/artic...
www.theguardian.com/travel/artic...
Another one for National Geographic, but this time on joining a moose-calling safari in Maine’s Great North Woods. Moose have four stomachs, if you didn’t know. 🫎 #travel #Maine
www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/artic...
www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/artic...
What it's like to go on a moose safari in Maine's Great North Woods
Maine’s Great North Woods is one of the best spots in the country to catch sight of the world’s largest deer species, making for a majestic wildlife safari.
www.nationalgeographic.com
November 27, 2024 at 4:45 PM
Another one for National Geographic, but this time on joining a moose-calling safari in Maine’s Great North Woods. Moose have four stomachs, if you didn’t know. 🫎 #travel #Maine
www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/artic...
www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/artic...
Scotland is the ultimate #travel destination if you ask me, so this recent piece for The Times gave me a great opportunity to revisit my many trips to #Orkney #Scotland 🏴
www.thetimes.com/travel/desti...
www.thetimes.com/travel/desti...
How to do the Orkney islands — as seen in The Outrun
The Scottish islands are the true star of Saoirse Ronan’s critically acclaimed new film. Here’s how to explore their wild drama
www.thetimes.com
November 27, 2024 at 4:42 PM
Scotland is the ultimate #travel destination if you ask me, so this recent piece for The Times gave me a great opportunity to revisit my many trips to #Orkney #Scotland 🏴
www.thetimes.com/travel/desti...
www.thetimes.com/travel/desti...
Here’s the kind of story I love writing about. A piece for BBC Travel on a Shangri-La sort of hotel tucked away in #Switzerland
www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
The Swiss hotel cut off from the world for 12 hours a day
While Switzerland is full of Alpine huts and hard-to-reach hotels, Alp Grüm is a mountain anomaly like no other.
www.bbc.com
November 27, 2024 at 4:40 PM
Here’s the kind of story I love writing about. A piece for BBC Travel on a Shangri-La sort of hotel tucked away in #Switzerland
www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
I’ve been up to loads in the last few months, so thought it a good idea to share some bits, bobs and #travel highlights.
First up, there’s this piece on travelling the length of #California by train for National Geographic 🚞
www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/artic...
First up, there’s this piece on travelling the length of #California by train for National Geographic 🚞
www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/artic...
What it's like to travel along the West Coast on a train
One of the most beautiful train journeys in the US, the Coast Starlight’s route unspools along the Pacific Ocean from Los Angeles via Sacramento to Seattle. With miles of coastline, towering mountain ...
www.nationalgeographic.com
November 27, 2024 at 4:36 PM
I’ve been up to loads in the last few months, so thought it a good idea to share some bits, bobs and #travel highlights.
First up, there’s this piece on travelling the length of #California by train for National Geographic 🚞
www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/artic...
First up, there’s this piece on travelling the length of #California by train for National Geographic 🚞
www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/artic...
Things are about to get really exciting now. Off for a week long misadventure in the Amazon. 🇵🇪
November 26, 2024 at 5:46 PM
Things are about to get really exciting now. Off for a week long misadventure in the Amazon. 🇵🇪
Things are about to get exciting.
November 25, 2024 at 12:21 PM
Things are about to get exciting.