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Scott Mills' Amsterdam diary

Archive record

Original URL
globalcool.org/entertainment/scott-mills-amsterdam-diary
Section
Entertainment
Published
2010-04-05
Written from
Wayback Machine capture of 2012-01-04

A companion diary to the Barcelona trip, following the Radio 1 presenter Scott Mills and his friend Laura Sayers on a flight-free journey to Amsterdam. The route ran from Liverpool Street to Harwich, then an overnight ferry to the Netherlands, then two further trains.

The page noted that Mills had grown up taking family holidays by boat and train because of a fear of flying, which made him an unusually willing subject for the campaign. As with the Barcelona diary the content was mostly captioned photographs and short video, arranged as numbered steps and written for laughs rather than as a travel guide.

The register is worth noting because it was the campaign's method: the environmental case sat underneath a celebrity travel diary rather than being stated directly, on the reasoning that readers who would not open an article about aviation emissions would open this. English Wikipedia cites this address in its article on Scott Mills.