The best travel job you don’t know about: Hilton’s ‘tastemaker’ explores the world to research new hotel restaurant concepts

Published on MailOnline on 25th March 2016:

For some, having money to go on holidays is perhaps the best part of working.

But there is one job that actually pays you to be a full-time tourist.

Helen Teschauer, a New Yorker based in London, works as a Restaurant Development Manager at Hilton Hotels. As part of her job, she visits the most exciting tourist spots, tries out the latest restaurants and hits the hippest bars at destinations around the world – all for research.

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Words – February 2016

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Luscious ice wines, sticky maple syrup and a marshmallow to top it off: Why Niagara is the sweetest place on Earth

Published on MailOnline on 27th February 2016:

Minus 10 degrees Celsius is a feeling that’s difficult to explain until you’ve felt it.

It’s the moment your face begins to feel the chill and then moments later, almost nothing at all. Until, that is, the wind lowers the temperature just a few degrees further and it becomes colder than you knew possible.

Those were the bracing conditions I faced when I travelled to Canada for the first time – to Ontario’s Niagara-on-the-Lake for the ice wine festival.

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Now THAT’S getting away from it all: The most remote places in Britain to stay include a sea fort in the Solent, a Highland castle and a cottage hidden in Snowdonia’s forest

Published on MailOnline on 14th February 2016:

Getting away from it all might be the throwaway phrase for travelling, but it’s often far from reality.

Many of us end up thrown in with hoards of other tourists, despite travelling for hours to reach exotic locales.

If you look in the right places though, a few of the most remote locations can be found right here in Britain.

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Words – December 2015

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