About Chris Alden

Chris Alden is a freelance writer specialising in consumer features for national media - and advertorials and web copy for commercial clients.

Areas of journalism

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Travel

Eiffel tower, Paris. Photo: Chris Alden

Paris, je t'aime

Guardian Unlimited Travel
Published on Saturday December 1, 2007

Business | Features | Travel

Three itineraries for the business traveller to Paris. By Chris Alden.

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London calling

Guardian Unlimited Travel
Published on Saturday December 1, 2007

Business | Features | Travel

Chris Alden offers three itineraries for the business traveller in London – whether you’ve the weekend, a day or just an hour free.

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Ride the apple-wine express

Guardian Unlimited Travel
Published on Friday November 30, 2007

Business | Features | Travel

Chris Alden picks out the highlights of Frankfurt for business travellers.

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A walk in the woods

The Daily Telegraph
Published on Thursday November 1, 2007

Arts and Books | Features | Travel

Chris Alden visits Black Park in Buckinghamshire, location for countless English movies – and rounds up famous film locations from around the country.

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Beach telescope, Isle of Wight. Photo: Chris Alden

Travel, on your doorstep

Telegraph Greener Living supplement
Published on Monday October 1, 2007

Environment | Features | Travel

Skip the air miles and enjoy life a little closer to home, suggests Chris Alden.

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Christmas by train

Daily Telegraph
Published on Saturday September 1, 2007

Environment | Travel

Chris Alden picks five rail itineraries for Christmas.

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Dubrovnik city walls. Photo: Chris Alden

Dubrovnik, fortress city

Guardian Unlimited Travel
Published on Wednesday June 6, 2007

Podcasts | Travel

Walk the old city walls, relax in coffee shops and escape to green islands – Chris Alden takes you on an audio tour of Dubrovnik.

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Monkey in a tree at Trentham monkey forest

Centre stage

Telegraph 'English escapes' supplement
Published on Saturday April 21, 2007

Features | Travel

On a trip to England’s industrial heartland, Chris Alden discovers world-famous ceramics, Cold War memorabilia – and some cheeky monkeys.

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Release the madness

Mazda magazine
Published on Thursday March 1, 2007

Features | Travel

Festivals are a time to let out the pent-up frustrations of our daily lives. Chris Alden rounds up the world’s wildest and most furious.

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Paris metro. Photo: Chris Alden

Paris for the business traveller

Guardian Unlimited Travel
Published on Friday January 12, 2007

Business | Podcasts | Travel

It might be home of the Louvre, the Arc de Triomphe and the Eiffel Tower, but Paris is more than a museum city for tourists. Chris Alden presents a business travel guide.

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Taxi on Blackfriars Bridge, London. Photo: Chris Alden

London for the business traveller

Guardian Unlimited Travel
Published on Thursday January 4, 2007

Business | Podcasts | Travel

Chris Alden presents a guide to making the most of a business trip to the capital.

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Hamburg's warehouse district. Photo: Chris Alden

City of water

bthere magazine
Published on Friday December 1, 2006

Features | Travel

Hamburg is set for a development boom, with land being reclaimed from the River Elbe to create a new city within a city. Chris Alden tests the water

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Europe after hours

easyJet magazine
Published on Friday December 1, 2006

Features | Travel

Being awake when the sun goes down and the streetlights flicker can be enchanting, says Chris Alden, especially in a European city that doesn’t sleep.

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Guide to business etiquette

Guardian Unlimited
Published on Sunday October 1, 2006

Business | Podcasts | Travel

Chris Alden presents four introductions to languages for business travellers – interviewing trainers in Hindi, Mandarin, Japanese and Arabic.

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Women of leisure

YeahBaby magazine
Published on Sunday October 1, 2006

Business | Features | Travel

Chris Alden meets the trio of young Dutch women who want to re-invent the way we travel – by pairing tourists with enterprising locals

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A spray at the races

Guardian Unlimited Travel
Published on Wednesday September 6, 2006

Features | Travel

Chris Alden loses his euros and his heart to a Spanish ‘Ascot-on-Sea’ – and offers a guide to where to watch some of the world’s wackiest races.

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Home from home in Rome

Redhot (Virgin Express) magazine
Published on Friday September 1, 2006

Features | Journalism | Travel

Chris Alden revels in the simplicity of Rivadestra, a “home restaurant” near the banks of the river Tiber

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Peninsular paradise

Guardian Unlimited Travel
Published on Tuesday June 20, 2006

Features | Travel

Turn your back on the island crowds and explore Greece’s spectacular mainland peninsulas instead, says Chris Alden

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World Cup city guides

Guardian Unlimited Travel
Published on Thursday June 1, 2006

Podcasts | Travel

Chris Alden walks and talks you through six German cities – Cologne, Frankfurt, Nuremberg, Munich, Berlin and Hamburg – for the 2006 World Cup.

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Grape escape España

Redhot (Virgin Express) magazine
Published on Thursday June 1, 2006

Features | Travel

Chris Alden discovers the wonderful wines between Barcelona and Valencia

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Flights of fancy

Redhot (Virgin Express) magazine
Published on Thursday June 1, 2006

Features | Travel

In need of an escape? Chris Alden lists the seven most eccentric palaces, monuments and gardens of Europe – where every corner hides a work of art, and there’s always another tower to climb

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The Parthenon, Athens. Photo: Chris Alden

Sounds of the city of Athens

Guardian Unlimited Travel
Published on Tuesday April 11, 2006

Podcasts | Travel

Chris Alden spends a weekend in Athens, taking in the Acropolis, some late-night bouzouki music and a Sunday morning at the markets.

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Somewhere for the weekend

Guardian Travel
Published on Saturday July 9, 2005

Features | Travel

Chris Alden stays at the Riverside Hotel in Ambleside, in the heart of the Lake District

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Cats in the Mediterranean. Photo: Chris Alden

Tiddles gets a new home

Observer Cash
Published on Sunday June 19, 2005

Features | Money | Travel

As part of an Observer series on financing your travels, Chris Alden describes how to cut the cost of rescuing distressed animals you stumble across on holiday

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Monemvasia

On the rock

Guardian Unlimited Travel
Published on Tuesday February 10, 2004

Features | Travel

As Athens takes the Olympic stage this summer, the tiny Aegean peninsula of Monemvasia will be strangely quiet. Get there while you can, says Chris Alden

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