HF Holidays Blog
With over 100 years experience, HF Holidays knows the best ingredients for holidays in the great outdoors.
Keep up to date with all the latest news from HF Holidays and the great outdoors.
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A new mountain in England
Calf Top, near the Yorkshire Dales and Sedbergh has now been classified as a Mountain! Due to a more accurate way of measuring the height, Calf Top has just scraped into 'Mountain status' with a total height of 2000.02ft (609.606m) from sea-level. Previously it was measured just 3 quarters of an inch too short.
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Colombian Adventure
‘Magical Realism’ –this is the official slogan of Procolombia, the national tourist board of Colombia. What was magic and real about Colombia? I was on a two week tour to find out what was behind this.
The tourist board introduced this campaign in 2013 to entice tourists to this emerging destination, previously known for its ongoing drug cartels, and years of violence and instability. Finally a peace deal was signed in Cartagena in September 2016.
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Europe Referendum - a message from CEO Jim Forward
While today the UK decided to leave the EU, it is business as usual at HF Holidays. We continue to take our guests on great holidays throughout Europe, the UK and the Rest of World.
One of our standard business practices is to buy currency in advance in order to pay hotels and other agents, so as to protect against currency fluctuations. Hence we can confirm that HF Holidays will not increase the price of any 2016 or 2017 foreign holiday already booked, or newly booked, by 31st August 2016.
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WE WON!!!!
We are thrilled to annouce that HF Holidays scooped the award for Best Specialist or Activity Tour Operator at last night's Silver Travel Awards ceremony.
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Cash boost for damaged footpaths
A £3.5m fund is to be made available to repair rights of way in Cumbria which were damaged by Storm Desmond.
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Happy Norway Day
Marching bands, parades, traditional costumes and ice cream. A lot of ice cream. The celebration of National Day is a party like no other in Norway.
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Growing pains
Ben Nevis is a little bit bigger than we thought.
The Ordnance Survey, has re-measured the Scottish peak and its official height is now 1,345m - a metre taller than when it was last measured in 1949.
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Flooded Lake District road re-opens
The A591 in the Lake District which collapsed during Storm Desmond has reopened three weeks ahead of schedule.
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Help us help Sport Relief
Sport Relief is back and we are proud to get involved.
Every two years Sport Relief encourages the British public to get active, have fun and raise cash to help people both here in the UK and in some of the world's poorest communities.
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Shropshire with HF Holidays
The Longmynd, our Country House set in the rolling Shropshire Hills, recently played host to a party of Group Leisure magazine readers on their April Readers Club trip. And it seems a great time was had be all. Read all about it in Sara Holt's reveiw Here.
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Feel Good Breaks
As the UK’s largest walking and leisure activity holiday organisation, HF Holidays has a responsibility to encourage as many people as possible to engage with the great outdoors.
Having worked with the Family Holiday Association, we're delighted to have hosted to date 8 Feel Good Break at HF Holidays' UK country houses.
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Vote for HF Holidays
Voting is now open for the 2016 Group Leisure Awards and every vote counts.
Calling all Group Leaders, the time has come to vote for you favourite Group Holiday Provider. So if you agree that we do a great job organising Group Holdidays and provide a fantastic service to goups, let the readers of Group Leisure know.
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Get Crafty with Christine
Christine Green has a unique creative profile; BBC graphic designer, Head of Film and Animation at Kingston University, author of ‘Contemporary Needlepoint’ and Kodak’s former Young Photographer of the year, self taught paper cutter and quilt maker. Christine takes a holistic approach to creativity, has infectious enthusiasm and is passionate about inspiring others to venture off-piste and develop their own creative interests.
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Group Travel Organiser of the Year Award 2016
Calling all our Group travellers. The annual search for the Group Travel Organiser of the Year has begun and we'd love it if you'd put HF Holidays name in the frame.
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Fell trail to bypass collpased road
A four-mile section of the A591 - a vital link between Keswick and Grasmere - has been closed after it was damaged by a landslide in December's storms.
A major repair programme is under way, but it is not expected to reopen until the end of May.
Meanwhile, plans have been announced for a multi-use trail over Dunmail Rise, which could be ready by April.