TRAVEL WITH JULES IS AN AWARD WINNING, INDEPENDENT, BESPOKE TRAVEL AGENCY BASED IN RURAL SUFFOLK

Update April 2022 ..... 

Sadly, due to the impact of the pandemic on my business, I am no longer in a financial position to employ staff. 

My goal is to maintain existing high levels of customer service by working only with my existing client base and recommendations.  For now, please do bear with me as I'm having to cope with the workload equivalent to four staff members, plus director's duties!  So much has changed over the past two years and everything involved with booking a holiday seems to take ten times longer that it ever used to!

Hopefully, as the world continues to slowly open back up and lift onerous testing and complex form filling requirements, we will all be able to enjoy freedom to travel again.  But don't worry I'm still here (just!) and I am always at the end of the phone to help my clients navigate through the post Covid world.

The below was my original story, so I'll leave it there for now .... and see where the next chapters lead me ...

Long, long ago in Monument valley!

How Travel With Jules came to be ... 

Jules story .... My travel career really started when I was about eight years old and had a small toy globe (but I already knew the names of every bird in the garden by the time I was five!). Closely followed by the purchase of a second hand old Atlas (which I still have to this day!) the traveller in me took to the 'virtual armchair’ of escaping round the colourful world when seventies Britain around me was still in black and white!

My parents interest in the natural world meant that family holidays were more bogs than Bognor and I soon became familiar with the wilds of Scotland and the birds of Pagham Harbour! Shortly after leaving school, having done secretarial training, I followed my heart to work with animals and found myself working at Chester Zoo, during which time I studied Zoology myself and had a lot of hands on animal experience (including helping rear baby elephants and leopards!) and events management. After nearly a decade organising travel for people and animals alike, I travelled myself around Europe organising zoological conferences and finally to Africa - there was the biggest mistake the Zoo ever made as I lost my heart to the sunsets of the Serengeti and chirping of the night time cicadas ….

(At Migration Camp, Serengeti in the 90's)

Jules' Travel Career

That was many years ago now. In the last 20 years or so I have seen every side of the travel industry, including spending six years in Africa. I’ve been a tour leader, safari camp manager, ground handler, travel agent, tour operator, nurse maid and agony aunt! For six years after returning to the UK, I was leading the Africa team as sales manager for a tailor made tour operator.  Now, I'm living in rural Suffolk, near the coast and have a garden full of furry and feathered friends who I'm mummy to -  different kinds of felines to those in Africa!

I made the move to set up my own business, Travel With Jules, in 2011.  Drawing on years of travel experience and knowledge, Travel With Jules now has a large number of repeat clients around the world.

My specialist niche and life long love will remain Africa along with all the wonderful wildlife of our Natural World. Travels in recent years have included Dominica, Malaysia, Arabia, Lapland, Canada and several trips to India.

Travel With Jules is a Theo Paphitis SBS winner

In March 2015 became a Dragon's Den's Theo Paphitis SBS Winner!  See the link through the logo on our footer for more information about this Dragon's endorsement of our business and our blog about the SBS Event in February 2016.  In March 2016 just in time to celebrate our five year anniversary, we built our lovely rural office and moved out of my house! Read about it all here! 

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