{"id":101,"date":"2017-12-15T10:19:52","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T10:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.green-measures.co.uk\/?p=101"},"modified":"2018-12-15T10:42:35","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T10:42:35","slug":"travel-writing-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.green-measures.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/12\/15\/travel-writing-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel Writing Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A regular contributor to the Western Morning News, Alex Green has scooped a national award for her travel feature on exploring the Basque Country <em>en famille, <\/em>which appeared in the Saturday supplement \u2018WestcountryLife\u2019, last October.<\/p>\n<p>Alex picked up the prize in the French Travel Media Awards at an event in London last week.<\/p>\n<p>The piece titled \u2018Basque in the Sun\u2019, which describes her campervan adventures in search of the best sunsets and surf \u2013 took the gong in the Best Family Break category of the awards, organised by the France <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/search\/?search=Tourism&amp;topic_id=6035\">Tourism<\/a>\u00a0Development Agency, Atout France.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.green-measures.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/thumbnail_FullSizeRender.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-103\" src=\"http:\/\/www.green-measures.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/thumbnail_FullSizeRender.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.green-measures.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/thumbnail_FullSizeRender.jpg 479w, http:\/\/www.green-measures.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/thumbnail_FullSizeRender-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the event at the Oxo Tower, on London&#8217;s South Bank, the agency&#8217;s British head of public relations, Anne Pedersen, said:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A total of eight awards were given out following a voting selection from 170 entries via the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/france.fr\/\">france.fr<\/a>\u00a0Facebook page and its 102,000 UK fans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From energetic ski and city adventures to soaking up the sun, the different lifestyles and destinations of France were celebrated by an inspirational variety of articles.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The piece titled \u2018Basque in the Sun\u2019, which describes her campervan adventures in search of the best sunsets and surf \u2013 took the gong in the Best Family Break category of the awards, organised by the France Tourism\u00a0Development Agency, Atout France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":102,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[6,4,5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.green-measures.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.green-measures.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.green-measures.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.green-measures.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.green-measures.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.green-measures.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221,"href":"http:\/\/www.green-measures.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.green-measures.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.green-measures.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.green-measures.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.green-measures.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}