Voting is now open for an overall winner in our travel story competition.

Go to the Travel Stories page to catch up with all our great entries. You can vote for up to 5 of your favourites. Voting is open for the whole of August.

The winner will be the individual entry that receives the most votes by midnight on August 31st 2015. They will receive an Amazon gift voucher of £100/$150 and a signed paperback copy of the second edition of Fred's Diary 1981 when it is released in October.

So please get voting and spread the word.

Thank you so much for taking part.

There has been am amazing response to the last month of our travel story competition (for 2015 at least). In all we have had 8 entries and you can read them all by following the links on the Travel Stories page.

Thank you so much Lucinda E. Clarke, Jackie Parry, Susan Joyce, John Rayburn, Beth Haslem, Doug E. Jones, Matthew Dexter and Val Vassay.

It's been an especially difficult month to judge the winning entry  but I am really pleased to announce our July travel story competition winner is ,,,,,,,,,,

JOHN RAYBURN for his fascinating and insightful entry Here We Go Again.

Many congratulations John  and your prize is on it's way.