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Article: Travel: Holidays made to measure
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 5, 1994
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ON PAGE 24 of the new Aito Directory of Real Holidays is a
listing of the "Really Unusual Holidays" offered by its members.
This selection includes an Amazon paddling expedition,
donkey-riding in the Cevennes, treks in the traces of the Cathars,
stage-coach driving and wildebeest migration.
Now try this experiment in your high street: pop into the local
Lunn Poly or Going Places and politely inquire what they have in
the way of packages featuring donkey treks or wildebeest migration.
You will not get a brochure; you will get what used to be known as
an old-fashioned look.
In the heyday of Thomas Cook, travel agencies prided themselves
on selling, well, travel. A slow boat to China? A cruise ...