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  • Daniel McNicolls personal address to Visit Somerset concerning major film updates

    Click the Galatia logo now! 

    John Turner the Vice Chairman has said; that we are within incredibly interesting times and as the impact of so many things that the Somerset Tourism Association and Visit Somerset have been developing begins to unfold, including...

  • Major Glastonbury Movie news coming very shortly.

    With i mminent Visit Somerset and 'Glastonbury Isle of Light' movie news coming, Visit Somerset are again at the top of the list for Writer/Producer Daniel McNicoll with his most recent blog.  

    Click on 'Glastonbury Isle of light' picture below.

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  • More stunning Glastonbury photographs that could inspire a movie!

    These incredible photographs really capture the mood of Glastonbury.

    The photographer is Tim Biot.

      

  • Stunning photography of Glastonbury Tor and the Abbey

    As we celebrate the facts of Hollywood taking an interset in Glastonbury and Somerset, just look at these stunning images showing off some of the great creative potential of Somerset people!

    More will follow shortly.

    Photography by Dharam Barratt.

  • 18/02/12 Read more...

    John Turner the Vice Chairman of Visit Somerset and Katherine Gorbing the Director of Glastonbury Abbey have been interviewed regarding the development of the film 'Glastonbury the Isle of light'. The film interview is now featured on both the 'Galatia film' and...

  • 6/02/12 .. Read More

    John Turner - the Vice Chairman of the 'Somerset Tourism Association' - was present at the ‘UK Inbound’ conference last week, which was held at the 'Europa hotel' in Belfast. This is the same hotel where the ‘Good Friday agreement’ was created and where...

  • 21/01/12 ..read more

    (5:25pm) Last night saw another very constructive conference call with the Galatia Films team, where our film expert Phil Shepherd was introduced to provide support from a South West Film perspective. Daniel and his team alluded to developments and requested finding experts in the archaeology...

  • 11/01/12 ..read more

    (11:48pm) Words from John Turner:

    Daniel McNicoll has just very kindly sent me this link to talk you through the preparation for a big Movie like 'The Hobbit'. It talks about tourism in New Zealand, 'this could well be Somerset soon'!

    http://www.youtube...

  • 10/01/12 ..read more

    (11:14pm) This is what the writer/producer of Glastonbury the Movie thinks that the Movie will reflect in modern day movie terms! You heard it first at Visit Somerset!

    In an email from Daniel McNicoll to John Turner:

    "How would I describe the final film? Lord of the Rings...

  • 07/01/12 ..read more

    (2:55pm) If you have any great photographs of 'Beautiful Locations in Somerset,' that you think deserve to be put onto our celebratory Movie Blog; please send them through to John@visitsomerset.co.uk .

    You too might well be part of the great story! (All photographs that are picked...

News

  • Stunning blonde turns heads at the zoo

    Visitors to Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm where witness to a rare sight recently, when a striking blonde figure was seen dashing through fields, causing great excitement.

    The culprit: a feisty, shaggy blonde-haired Highland Cow, the newest arrival at Noah’s Ark who has...

  • HOT FUZZ DIRECTOR SPONSORS SWAN

     

    Wells police were delighted to get their hands on a relative of the Hot Fuzz swan which continuously evaded capture in the famous film shot in the city a few years ago.  This more passive creature has been sponsored by Hot Fuzz director Edgar Wright and Working Title Films as...

  • Butcombe Sponsorship updates

    1. Butcombe at the Bath & West - the best of Somerset combine as Butcombe Brewery teams up with fellow Somerset drinks producer Thatchers Cider at this year's Bath & West show, taking place at the Shepton Mallet Showground Wed 30th May – Sat 2nd Jun.

    We have an...

  • All Aboard the Hestercombe Express 2012

     

    It’s nostalgic and it’s novel!   Enjoy this exciting combination of old world travel taking you to one of tthe country’s best loved gardens – Hestercombe, near Taunton in Somerset!

    Hop onto the  romantic steam train from any station...

  • Glastonbury Abbey excavations reveal Saxon glass industry

    New research led by the University of Reading has revealed that finds at Glastonbury Abbey provide the earliest archaeological evidence of glass-making in Britain.

    Professor Roberta Gilchrist, from the Department of Archaeology, has re-examined the records of excavations that...

  • Norton St Philip First School launch their 4th Scarecrow Trail.

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  • Ronnie and Roxie the East End Reindeer bring new life to the Ark

    PRESS RELEASE

    1 st May 2012

     

    A beautiful white baby reindeer has been born at Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm in Wraxall with another on the way, as popular celebrity characters Ronnie and Roxie the reindeer celebrate motherhood together.

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  • 'First Travel Solutions' intensifies the publicity behind the Somerset Explorer

    'First Travel Solutions' and 'First Great Western' trains are taking the Somerset Explorer project development very seriously and have just launched their latest advert in the 'Group Travel Organiser'.

    Further to this;

    On the 11th May John Turner the...

  • STA MEMBER WINS CONTRACT TO SERVE AT THE OLYMPICS

     

    A subsidiary of the Regency Purchasing Group has won a multi-million pound contract to supply food, drink and ice cream to visitors in the Olympic Village during the Olympic and Paralymic Games this summer.

    Regency Event Solutions (RES), has won the contract to...

  • Major Chinese online tourism travel operator looking to develop Somerset tourism itineraries.

    On Monday 30 th at 12:00 O’clock  The ‘Somerset Tourism association’ and ‘First Travel solutions’ will be giving China’s second largest internet tour/travel  operator www.lvmama.com and another English based Chinese operator, ‘China...

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