https://traceydavies.co.uk Travel journalist, author and comedian. Brighton, UK — and wherever the next story is. en-gb https://traceydavies.co.uk/portfolio/cruise-danube-viking/ https://traceydavies.co.uk/portfolio/cruise-danube-viking/ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Sun For The Sun, Tracey and her 20-year-old daughter Lola swapped backpacking for Viking's eight-day Danube Waltz — four countries, six cities and rather more Austrian schnapps than either of them intended. https://traceydavies.co.uk/portfolio/solo-travel-decades-group-tours/ https://traceydavies.co.uk/portfolio/solo-travel-decades-group-tours/ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The i Paper For The i Paper's travel desk, Tracey — editor of 101 Singles Holidays — picked ten group trips built for solo travellers, from Japan's Kyushu backroads to yurt-building in Kyrgyzstan and an Alaska cruise with no single supplement. https://traceydavies.co.uk/portfolio/solo-holidays-six-picks/ https://traceydavies.co.uk/portfolio/solo-holidays-six-picks/ Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Sun As editor of 101 Singles Holidays, Tracey wrote for The Sun on the 83% surge in solo bookings — and picked six trips, from a Greek beachfront in Corfu to a Dolomites walking group and a Passage to India. https://traceydavies.co.uk/portfolio/ramsgate-seaside-guide/ https://traceydavies.co.uk/portfolio/ramsgate-seaside-guide/ Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Sun Tracey took The Sun to Ramsgate — Kent's slightly gritty answer to Margate — for Furby organs, 2.5 miles of WW2 tunnels, the only royal harbour in the UK and, obviously, the world's biggest Wetherspoons. https://traceydavies.co.uk/portfolio/royal-yacht-britannia-leith/ https://traceydavies.co.uk/portfolio/royal-yacht-britannia-leith/ Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Sun For The Sun, Tracey boarded the Royal Yacht Britannia in Leith — just named Tripadvisor's world's best attraction — and toured all five decks: Her Majesty's office, the piano bolted to the drawing-room floor, and the single beds she and Prince Philip actually slept in. https://traceydavies.co.uk/portfolio/sunbed-wars-six-hotels/ https://traceydavies.co.uk/portfolio/sunbed-wars-six-hotels/ Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT The i Paper A Düsseldorf holidaymaker sued a Greek tour operator over the dawn dash — and won. Tracey went hunting for six hotels that have solved the sunbed wars, from a Crete resort with 3,500 loungers for 2,150 guests to a Cyprus place issuing personal numbered cards. https://traceydavies.co.uk/portfolio/space-camp-alabama/ https://traceydavies.co.uk/portfolio/space-camp-alabama/ Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Sunday Times For The Sunday Times, science-nerd Tracey blasted off to Alabama's US Space & Rocket Center for two nights of adult Space Camp — bratwurst in the crew galley, satellite repairs in a shuttle mock-up, and one very disorienting multi-axis trainer. https://traceydavies.co.uk/portfolio/ashdown-forest-pooh/ https://traceydavies.co.uk/portfolio/ashdown-forest-pooh/ Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Sun For The Sun, Tracey went home to Ashdown Forest — the real Hundred Acre Wood — to mark 100 years of Winnie-the-Pooh. Three-mile Pooh Walk from Gills Lap, Poohsticks Bridge, and the Pooh-seum in Hartfield with cream teas and honey on toast. https://traceydavies.co.uk/portfolio/adhd-diagnosis-midlife/ https://traceydavies.co.uk/portfolio/adhd-diagnosis-midlife/ Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Daily Mail For the Daily Mail, Tracey wrote about the day her 22-year marriage was officially dissolved — and, by coincidence, the same day she was finally diagnosed with combined ADHD at 53. A raw account of the diagnostic gap women in midlife are only just starting to close. https://traceydavies.co.uk/portfolio/yorkshire-dales-wuthering-heights/ https://traceydavies.co.uk/portfolio/yorkshire-dales-wuthering-heights/ Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Sun For The Sun, Tracey took her partner and Miss Babs to the Yorkshire Dales — freshly relit by the Margot Robbie / Jacob Elordi Wuthering Heights remake — for the 150-year-old Settle–Carlisle railway, Malham Cove and one very muddy trudge to Gordale Scar. https://traceydavies.co.uk/portfolio/new-forest-dog-friendly-hotels/ https://traceydavies.co.uk/portfolio/new-forest-dog-friendly-hotels/ Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT The Sunday Times Tracey rounded up 15 New Forest hotels that welcome the dog for The Sunday Times — from Chewton Glen's treehouses to Balmer Lawn's breakfast sausage voucher and a boutique inn where the resident hound writes a personal welcome letter. https://traceydavies.co.uk/portfolio/musical-theatre-retreat-andalucia/ https://traceydavies.co.uk/portfolio/musical-theatre-retreat-andalucia/ Mon, 02 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT The Guardian Tracey shipped out to a villa near Tarifa for Sing the Greatest Showman — a week of West End tuition, communal karaoke and views across the Strait of Gibraltar, with a final-night concert to earn. https://traceydavies.co.uk/portfolio/rivals-tetbury-cotswolds/ https://traceydavies.co.uk/portfolio/rivals-tetbury-cotswolds/ Thu, 17 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT The i Paper For The i Paper, Tracey — a self-confessed 40-time Rivals rereader — took Miss Babs to Tetbury, the Cotswolds town Disney+ dressed up as Cotchester for its Jilly Cooper adaptation, and stayed at the Hare & Hounds where the cast bunked. https://traceydavies.co.uk/portfolio/mamma-mia-corfu-family/ https://traceydavies.co.uk/portfolio/mamma-mia-corfu-family/ Mon, 23 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT The Sunday Times For The Sunday Times, Tracey took her twin daughters to Corfu on the trail of ITV's Mamma Mia! I Have a Dream — from Kassiopi's harbour tavernas to Kalami's Durrell villa and the abandoned mountain village of Old Perithia. https://traceydavies.co.uk/portfolio/greece-daughter-lola-kos/ https://traceydavies.co.uk/portfolio/greece-daughter-lola-kos/ Sat, 29 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT The Guardian After a difficult few years, Tracey took her 17-year-old twin daughter Lola to Kos off-season — thermal beaches, Hippocrates' plane tree, and the first proper adult-to-adult conversations of their relationship. https://traceydavies.co.uk/portfolio/biarritz-teenage-surf-camping/ https://traceydavies.co.uk/portfolio/biarritz-teenage-surf-camping/ Sat, 09 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT The Guardian For The Guardian's teenage-holiday round-up, Tracey drove a Bongo camper down France's Atlantic coast to Biarritz with her 18-year-old son and 14-year-old twin daughters — surf lessons, bodyboarding, and San Sebastián pintxos on the day off. https://traceydavies.co.uk/portfolio/palm-springs-48-hours/ https://traceydavies.co.uk/portfolio/palm-springs-48-hours/ Sat, 14 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT Daily Mail For The Mail on Sunday, Tracey did 48 hours in Palm Springs — Rat Pack cocktails at the Tonga Hut's secret room, a mid-century architecture tour past Elvis's Honeymoon Hideaway and Sinatra's piano-shaped pool, and dinner at the old Al Wertheimer joint. https://traceydavies.co.uk/portfolio/beadnell-towers-northumberland/ https://traceydavies.co.uk/portfolio/beadnell-towers-northumberland/ Sun, 08 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT Daily Mail For The Mail on Sunday's Great British Boltholes column, Tracey reviewed a newly refurbished 18-room boutique hotel in a Grade II Northumberland pile — dog-friendly, kipper-forward, and a mile from a bracing Beadnell Bay walk.