Laura Gelder

Associate Editor at The Week Junior, lover of exotic places and strange supermarkets, Dorset enthusiast and cat fancier

[Laura Gelder @GaddingGelder]

Hurrah!!!!! What an amazing way to end my time as editor of Charitable Traveller. I’m so proud to have been part of the team that created this magazine for @CharitableTrav - a company that’s trying to create a better world through my favourite thing - travel! Congrats team CT!

[Travel Media Awards @travelmediawrds]

Charitable Traveller @charitabletrav, gracious as always, took home TMA's 'Customer Content' award, sponsored by Seabourn #TravelMediaAwards2022

[Laura Gelder @GaddingGelder]

@conversiontales The Snow Spider by Jenny Nimmo

[Laura Gelder @GaddingGelder]

Excited to be out for the @travelmediawrds tonight! Good luck to all the finalists @CharitableTrav

[Laura Gelder @GaddingGelder]

I’ve not been able to thinking about Sarah Everard this week so I had to write about it: https://t.co/9Q5HsEIFCP If you’ve feeling as helpless as I was there are some amazing charities fighting violence against women detailed at the end #SarahEverard #ReclaimTheseStreets

[Laura Gelder @GaddingGelder]

The second issue is out! The Bond film being delayed last-min means the Bond film locations feature isn’t so current but hopefully still a fun read! Also inside: Anguilla, safari in South Africa, Saskatchewan, a day in the life of a film maker helping people with dementia & more!

[Laura Gelder @GaddingGelder]

@angelascanlon My friend & I met Nick knowles about 13 years ago in a backpacker bar in Queenstown, NZ. My mate sang Black Velvet and he sought her out to compliment her! She was beyond thrilled that Nick from DIY SOS liked what he heard! Can’t remember what he sang but he was good too!

[Laura Gelder @GaddingGelder]

My desk this morning so that @Hermesparcels can’t say I wasn’t in even though I was 2 metres from the front door. This time I’m right here - watching you 👀

[Tina Daheley @TinaDaheley]

One day...

[Laura Gelder @GaddingGelder]

Listening to @SimonCalder on a @WTM_London webinar and he called the travel industry “the industry of human happiness” just as it started raining - love this! #onetravelindustry

[Selling Travel @sellingtravmag]

Will you be an Armchair travel agent?
The big question for agents is: how do you sell travel in a time when no one is allowed to travel? We want to help you keep the conversation going…
https://t.co/KPJxtcNgI9 #onetravelindustry

[Laura Gelder @GaddingGelder]

Sorry to be missing #imm2020 and the @TravMedia_UK awards today but don’t think anyone wants me coughing on them in the current climate (currently a less glam version of the below!)

[Laura Gelder @GaddingGelder]

@allisonpearson She's more likely to make a difference in a country which has been industrialised for much longer and is much richer per capita. She's not targeting but raising awareness in a globally influentual country. Plus, better to strive to be the best rather than better than the worst.

[Laura Gelder @GaddingGelder]

Jeppe Klockareson from @Fair_Travel_Swe says we must maximise the positive effects of travel. It’s about quality over quantity @MatkaTravelFair @sellingtravmag

[Laura Gelder @GaddingGelder]

The MATKA Nordic Travel Fair is officially open - lots of sustainable travel stuff is on the menu! @MatkaTravelFair @sellingtravmag

[Laura Gelder @GaddingGelder]

Slimey dicks - they’re taking over everywhere. #ElectionResults2019

[The Guardian @guardian]

Thousands of 'penis fish' appear on California beach https://t.co/nnLUXGCzG0

[Chris Packham @ChrisGPackham]

It’s going to be cold , dark and miserable but I think I’ve found a safe place to hide . . . or maybe I’m lying . . .

[Laura Gelder @GaddingGelder]

The only thing not making me feel anxious today #dogsatpollingstations

[Laura Gelder @GaddingGelder]

There is such a thing as real news and proper journalism. It’s not perfect because nothing done by humans is. Of course it’s biased. But unless it’s marked as opinion, it’s structured using facts. And it’s worth respecting and protecting. https://t.co/GEHGhYRxJ8

[Laura Gelder @GaddingGelder]

Nuff said

[Irvine Welsh @IrvineWelsh]

When you're not doing so well, vote for a better life for yourself. If you are doing quite nicely, vote for a better life for others.

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

In the launch speech Johnson calls IFT President "my old friend Daniel Hannan". Hannan has a long history of anti-NHS statements