For many people, travel sits alongside home ownership and marriage as a significant life goal, and we Brits spend more on holidays than we do on any other leisure activity. It seems strange, therefore, that we rarely reflect on our reasons for doing so. Whether it’s an epic adventure or a ‘staycation’, award-winning author, journalist and broadcaster Ash Bhardwaj explores how travel intersects with our entire lives and its powerful hold over us.
About the speaker
Ash is one of the country’s top travel writers, who has penned articles for Condé Nast Traveller, The Times and the Daily Telegraph, amongst many others. His broadcast credits include BBC R4’s From Our Own Correspondent and the documentary series Expedition Borderlands with Ash Bhardwaj and Levison Wood for Discovery. He is also co-host of the First Mile podcast and winner of the British Guild of Travel Writers’ Best Broadcast Programme of the Year.
Booking for in-person attendance is required.
About Monday night lectures
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Monday night lectures are open to Fellows and Members and are included in the cost of membership.
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Monday night lectures are held in person in the Ondaatje Theatre and the bar will be open in the Map Room before and after the lecture. Please be advised all payments are card only.
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All Fellows and Members wanting to attend in person must pre-book a free ticket.
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Venue information
This event will be held in the Ondaatje Lecture Theatre at Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), 1 Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AR.
Doors open at 5.30pm. The lecture will begin at 6.30pm.
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