Based In Hampstead, London

Ian Woolgar

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Thanks for taking time out to let me outline my and my partner's experience.

I learnt my trade working for and with, amongst others, Colin Murison Small who more or less invented the alpine ski 'chalet girl’, Colin Trigger a one time Chairman of ABTA & ATOL, and the legendary Vladimir Raitz who held the country’s first ATOL when in 1949 he sent 21 people to Corsica for £35 a head!! I’ve watched the sun rise over Table Mountain, sink beneath the horizon in the Aegean and stay above it all night in the Svalbard Archipelago. I’ve slept in a mountain hut on the edge of an Icelandic glacier and a staffed villa on a coconut plantation in the Dominican Republic. I've organised family holidays, culture tours, a product launch on an Icelandic glacier, weddings in the sun and snow, sales incentive meetings and more.

My partner Anna ( Hyndman Lahna) spent 3 decades working in tour operation, retail travel, repatriation and for Singapore Airlines & South African Airways. What she doesn’t know about airline ticketing isn’t worth knowing. She has equally eclectic experiences to mine having white water rafted on the Zambezi River, trekked by camel across the Gobi desert, flip flopped over the Piranha River Bridge into Paraguay, and trained elves for Father Christmas in Lapland.

Together we fuse our collective experience (and experiences) with Travel Counsellors' state of the art technology to plan, polish and perfect your holiday the way you want it to be. To see to it that everything works flawlessly for you from beginning to end. 'With us its Personal' is more than the company strap line its how we work so you get the travel arrangements you want. And if things go wrong we've dealt with disruptions caused by everything from snow storms to volcanic eruptions.

Our offices are wherever we are 24/7 so both Anna and I are always just a phone call , Whats App message , e-mail or text away so get in touch by whichever method suits you and let us show you what 'With us its Personal' can mean for you.

Travel Counsellors is a 650m turonover company with a unique personalised business model, 24/7 availablity and a Trust Fund 100% guaranteeing your money's safe in all circumstances. No ifs no buts.

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My Blog

I absolutely live and breathe travel and I love to write about my experiences! Please take a look through my posts - you might find your own holiday inspiration.

Dinner without the Sheikh

04 February 2021

Whilst visiting a friend in Bahrain a while back, she suggested we spend time at Sakhir Beach. As an avid lover of the sun and all things seaside, I didn’t need to be asked twice. A few swims later and caked in oil, we were interrupted by a very well dressed young man. He said that the King had spotted us, from his nearby palace and wanted to invite us for tea. Stunned and looking decidedly und

A week in the Gobi Desert

02 February 2021

All I really knew about Mongolia was that Genghis Khan was a terrifying leader, mystical throat singing is actually a thing and the entire country is full of yaks, so, with two intrepid friends, I travelled to Ulaanbaatar, where we met our guide Munkhbileg and began the adventure. We first enjoyed time in the capital visiting some of the few remaining ancient temples, the city centre market and

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