Each page follows a standard format (see below) to make it easy to find the information you want. In addition each page provides a link to the holiday offers section.

Meet Reg Butler below and then take a look at his  laterlife Travel and Holidays index.

An introduction to Travel and Holidays in laterlife

During his long career, Reg Butler has spent an average 18 weeks a year on the road. He worked as a Tour Manager for 12 summer seasons, conducting groups on classic tours of Europe - and then writing syndicated travel articles for newspapers in UK, USA, South Africa and Australia. His tour manager years included pioneer circuits through Eastern Europe, when that region was relatively off-trail.

Then for years he worked as Correspondent for a New York magazine publishing group, making 23 consecutive annual circuits of the Far East, including India, Thailand, Philippines, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea. Even more visits were made to southern Africa, and innumerable return trips to Eastern and Western Europe.

During the 1990s Reg produced a series of Citybreak pocket guidebooks that covered Europe's highlight cities, and a similar longhaul series. These guidebooks - some going into seven editions - were sold in UK and US bookshops, and were also bought in large numbers by Thomson Holidays to include in clients' travel packs. Well over a million copies were published, but regrettably the books are now out of print.

In this Guide to travel and holidays in laterlife, be guided by Reg, who gives you an over-50s view-point on the pleasures of worldwide travel.

To take a look at the sectons that are of most interest visit the laterlife Travel and Holidays index.

WHAT YOU WILL FIND ON EACH PAGE

On each destination page, the main text describes what each location can offer the over-50 traveller. The Travel Facts panel lists out key information details such as Coming Events, Health, age-related discounts etc.

Advance reading about a destination enhances the on-the- spot enjoyment. We recommend a few selected books for each location. Most of the books are available from Amazon at discounts between 10 and 30 percent off the list price. Just click on the hyperlink, or on a picture of the book jacket.

Special holiday packages designed to be of interest to over 50s

Just visit our  holidays, breaks and travel options page.

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