Whenever and wherever we travel we love to tell others. Some of us chat, some snap on instagram, and some write guides and books about the places we’ve been.
The ferry has gone
The sky and Skye
Just come back from the Isle of Skye… I couldn’t resist that for anyone who remembers Andy Stewart’s songs. We enjoyed a wild and windy break up there, including a week without any internet connection out of choice, which proved a wonderful experiment in changing the way I live. I read a lot of books... Continue Reading →
A Guide to the YHA Archive
A guide to the YHA and YMCA archives has now been published by the Cadbury Research Library. The guide outlines a brief history of both organisations along with an overview of the archives for them. You can watch a film of the launch of the new catalogue - about 13 minutes in for anyone wishing... Continue Reading →
Healthy minds and active bodies
In 2020 the Cadbury Research Library was successful in an application for funding from the Wellcome Trust to catalogue the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) and Youth Hostels Association (YHA) archive collections. After two years the project is now complete and new catalogues for both collections are now available. Both provide a fantastic body of... Continue Reading →
Hostels re-imagined
YHA wants to involve more people in running youth hostels. It’s an approach with potential for sustainable tourism, a way of maintaining and re-imagining hostels, based on YHA’s long history. At its start, in 1930, with people eager for hostels to open, YHA lacked the resources to build or buy its own properties, and turned... Continue Reading →
SIMPLY HOSTELS 