Writer Marianne C. Bohr Wins in Three Categories of the Tenth Annual Solas Awards

BETHESDA, Md. - March 3, 2016 - PRLog -- Marianne C. Bohr has won honors in three categories of the Tenth Annual Solas Awards, just announced by the contest sponsor, travel writing publisher Travelers’ Tales. More than 200 entries in 21 categories competed to win in this year’s contest, honoring excellence in travel writing. Bohr won awards for three travel stories.

“A Wide-Eyed Schoolgirl” won a Silver Award in the Travel and Transformationcategory for the best story about the inner journey or pilgrimage.

The Tour du Mont Blanc won a Silver Award in the Travel and Sportscategory for her account of a seven-day, 105-mile hike on the famous trek along Mont Blanc Massif.

The Marrakesh Express won Honorable Mention for a story about traveling Morocco by train.

Many winning stories will appear in future Travelers’ Tales books. More about the publisher and awards can be found at BestTravelWriting.com.

Bohr caught the travel bug as an exchange student to France during college and never recovered. Decades later she is an avid writer and traveler—trekking continents, publishing travel stories and writing a Huffington Post Travel column: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marianne-c-bohr/

A collection of stories from her year-long tour with her husband was published last fall in the memoir, Gap Year Girl: A Baby Boomer Adventure Across 21 Countries. Enjoyed by boomers longing to hit the road and every reader with wanderlust, Bohr's book is award-winning writing. Her stories touch on travel writing’s universal themes of escape, adventure, freedom, discovery, and life reimagined. The book has received praise from noted trade reviews, travel writing publishers and authors.Gap Year Girl can be ordered at http://www.amazon.com/Gap-Year-Girl-Adventure-Countries/d....

“…an inspiration to thousands of baby boomers who are coming to realize that it’s possible not only to dream Don Quixote’s Impossible Dream, but to make it come true.”
—Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince, coauthors of many Frommer’s best-selling guides

Marianne C. Bohr is a writer, editor and author of the travel memoir, Gap Year Girl: A Baby Boomer Adventure Across 21 Countries. The book tells the story of her late-in-life travels abroad with her husband—a second gap year for both. Bohr is a Francophile, French teacher and travel blogger on Huffington Post. She and her husband live near Washington, DC and travel at every opportunity. Their two grown children often join in family trekking adventures. Marianne speaks at author events and book groups, in person or via Skype. To request a speaking date contact her via website mariannecbohr.com.