Daily Telegraph, Ultra Travel Magazine,
Spring 2006
 What price a true expert?
Victoria Mather (Travel Editor of Vanity Fair) seeks out travel companies that are small and perfectly informed.
I think small. As the world gets bigger, as its vastness opens up to the tripper and the trekker, as the ice clinks in gins and tonics around campfires from the Kalahari to Kathmandu, small is the only way to go. I am talking expertise: the small individual travel specialists who can crack the relentless, creeping homogeneity that is the curse of modern travel.
The moral of the story is that holidays are short and can be brutish. I wouldn’t dream of going to Italy without consulting Emily FitzRoy (www. bellinitravel.com). She knows the man who can get the Sistine Chapel closed so you can visit privately, without being bushwhacked by Aussie backpackers...
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