Wanderlust Magazine - September 2010
"I felt like a guest rather than a customer, a visitor rather than a traveller.."

Ham and High - March 2010
"This was the first time I'd been on any kind of cooking course, let alone one based in Thailand..a remarkable trip which would be hard to equal for sheer diversity of experience.." (click on the 'more' button below to read the article which covers Tamarind & Spice comprehensively).

Wanderlust Magazine - February 2010
Cover story of the February issue of Wanderlust magazine, based on a Tell Tale Travel trip. Southern Thailand, beaches, trains, tiger-haunted jungles and more.

Food & Travel - January 2008
"It's the wealth of raw materials, their treatment and a passion for eating verging on obsessive that makes Thai food sumptuous. If it's alive and they can catch it, they eat it. If it grows and doesn't poison them, they eat it. 'The saltiness comes from fish sauce, the sweetness from raw palm or coconut sugar, the sourness from tamarind from India, and the hotness from chillies..'"

Avantoure - October 2007
"Following the 'Lemongrass Trail' on a tour offered by the British company Tell Tale Travel, you can mesh with Thai culture through its cuisine; spending time with local families, learning how to shop at markets, catching seafood and mixing spices on a holiday revelling in the power of food, that respects and supports Thailand's culture and communities.."

The Telegraph - June 2007
"This is day one of the "lemongrass trail", a tailor-made cooking (and eating) tour of Thailand, and I'm already a fully fledged convert to Thai cuisine..Following a few days in Bangkok I would be driven to a country retreat in the north-eastern region of Isan for open-air cookery classes and massages. From there we would move on to the rice-rich Central Plains to sample gastronomic life in a canal-side village, and I would finish off with a plane hop down to Krabi to feast on fish from the Andaman Sea.."

Times Online - April 2007
"Picking the right holiday in the first place needs to press all the right buttons and at Tell Tale Travel one of the family holidays is an eco trip including a chance to care for elephants: how could any teenager resist that?..Tell Tale Travel..takes special care with the teen family market.."

The Times - January 2007
"The Lemon Grass Route is the fragrant title of a new independent two-week cookery tour for Thai food fans. And it's serious stuff - with the first three days spent at the Blue Elephant cookery school in Bangkok before heading off to the provinces to bone up on regional specialities"

Times Online - December 2006
"The holiday was one of the most relaxing and rewarding I've had..We started our trip on an island..where there are no cars, no massage houses and no bars..Between the island villages - collections of flimsy bamboo and brick houses - rich green vegetation is peppered with lurid hibiscus, iris and lotus flowers..As fishing preoccupies most of the island's men, fresh fish is plentiful.."

Times - August 2006
"A feast of festivals is guaranteed on Tell Tale Travel's tour to Thailand in November. First visit is to Chiang Mai, with the celebrations for Loy Krathong on a full-moon night when the locals release hot-air paper balloons into the sky and launch a candle-lit boat to bring them luck..Tell Tale Travel will also get you in on events such as the elephant buffet, when bamboo platforms are piled high with elephant treats."

Revolution Magazine - June 2006
(Profile of one of our directors, Dee Edwards)
"Tell Tale Travel [offers] tourists authentic and eco-friendly experiences during the space of an average holiday, beginning in Thailand. 'We all love to get the inside track and do things that others haven't done. Travel is not just about the destinations any more - it's the experiences..' says Edwards.."

Guardian Unlimited - April 2006
"Doors opened into a language and culture I realised I had barely scratched the surface of during a month backpacking in the country seven years ago." Tell Tale Travel holidays "will suit anyone with an open mind (and open palette) who wants to experience travel as enriching for themselves as for those they are visiting."

The Times - March 2006
"In the province of Nakorn Ratchasima, a foodie couple will take you to pick herbs and mushrooms on an organic plantation. You can meet green-fingered Thais on Gardens of Paradise tours.."

Guardian Unlimited - March 2006
"For something completely different, the world's biggest water fight will take place in Bangkok between April 13 and 15 in celebration of the Thai new year (Songkran)..Tell Tale Travel is organising..holidays where you can stay as a guest of local people"