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About Us

At packyourbags, we love travel. From the MD down to the fruit-juicer, we all have passion for getting outside and running through forests singing to the animals.

We started far too long ago as a travel agent called Country Trails Travel on Mount Pleasant in Tunbridge Wells. And even though a few of us are a little greyer and (we like to think) a little wiser, we still uphold the traditional values of an outdoor specialist and travel agent - offering an unbiased service to our customers.

If you're in the area, please come into the shop and see what we can offer you, even if it is just to say hello. Ask Margaret nicely and she might even make you a cuppa! However, if Tunbridge Wells sounds a bit too posh then hang out here in our online store or call us for advice on 01892 779 710.

The packyourbags Travel Store is brought to you by the following players:

Matt Raynor

Matt Raynor, Manager

Matt runs the outdoor shop and busy internet sales department, looking after everything from the suppliers, buying and ordering stock for the seasons, shop design and layout to running our busy internet dispatch department. Oh, and keeping our postman on his toes!


Paul Raynor

Paul Raynor

Paul, together with his uncle, started a successful camping business in rural Sussex in 1973. In 1980 together with his wife Margaret moved into Tunbridge Wells to open a small outdoor shop in Mount Pleasant - nearly 30 years later this is now the packyourbags Travel Store. Paul particularly enjoys the opportunity to provide the best products to meet the leisure needs of so many people.


Margaret Raynor

Margaret Raynor

Margaret is the matriarch of the store! She still enjoys meeting the people who come into the shop many who are off to far flung places, and she is looking forward to becoming a Grey Nomad travelling in Australia in the not too distant future. Margaret always looks fetching in pink!


Michelle Bryan

Michelle Bryan

Michelle likes to look after all the customers old and new, and give them the correct information and to recommend the right clothing/equipment for their adventures. She's also incredibly active, and in 2008 she completed a charity 40 mile hike over the South Downs completing the course in an insane 9hrs 47mins!! (22mins taken of the best female time- although the two pints of cider before the start line helped!!)


Lee Walker

Lee Walker, Accounts

Lee loves numbers, and spends most of his day looking at complex spreadsheets. He doesn't understand them, he just looks at them. His hobbies, if you can call them that, are reading, films, shooting some pool, football (watching), music (listening) and drinking (drinking). He is almost a bottomless pit of knowledge as long as it’s limited to 80’s films and 80’s T.V. theme tunes.

Natalie Bridges

Natalie Bridges, Accounts

Natalie works alongside Lee in the accounts team. She's responsible for making sure our suppliers get paid on time - the most important job! Natalie is a Gemini who enjoys mexican food. When asked what her favourite outdoor pursuit was, she replied 'shopping'. Nice!


Mark Anderson

Mark Anderson, Web Developer

Mark is the backbone, kneebone, and left tibia of the website you're currently viewing. He works with in the technology department updating the site with new products and features using his voodoo programming skills. What Mark doesn't know about eCommerce isn't worth knowing, and if it is then he already knows it. Follow? His favourite food is pizza.

David Bevan

David Bevan, Finance Manager

David has worked at packyourbags for nearly 114 years, helping anyone with a financial problem or question. He enjoys working with numbers so much he once counted to 23,563,981 - but had to stop to enjoy a much needed packet of custard creams. Dave enjoys the odd bit of sport and, occasionally, a swift half down the local pub.

Tom Kempster

Thomas Kempster, Technical Director

When not playing with cables and computers, Tom has travelled in Russia, India and Nepal. He is an enthusiastic yet dangerous skier with a unique style, who is responsible for all the technological aspects of packyourbags, from hardware, software, connections and security and all ecommerce projects. His brother is...

Mark Kempster

Mark Kempster, Managing Director

Mark runs the whole she-bang. Or at least tries to keep us all in line! When he's not at work Mark loves the outdoors and has spent much time walking, climbing, mountaineering and anything else that doesn't involve purchase orders. Although the picture on the left would have you believe different, Mark is remarkably fit and has climbed, amongst others, the mighty Matterhorn.


Packyourbags Travel Store is part of CTT Group Ltd

Directors: Mark Kempster and Thomas Kempster

Registered Address:
33 Mount Pleasant Road
Tunbridge Wells
Kent
TN1 1PN.

Company Ref: 3464732

VAT Reg No: GB 886 2033 13.