Category: Travel
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Wandering the Sussex hills
To the disappointment of every tabloid journalist in the UK, the late May bank holiday was not a ‘total washout’ as predicted. These are from today’s walk around Lullington Heath 🙂
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Montenegro’s Herceg Novi through my cheap camera lens
If Herceg Novi were a person, and not a small town located at the mouth of Montenegro’s famous fjord-like Bay of Kotor, it would be a person with multiple battle wounds – perhaps a missing limb or two, definitely with severe PTSD, and a lot of stories to tell. Over the last few centuries Herceg […]
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Gatwick Express, Gatwick Express
Gatwick Express, Gatwick Express You’ve got plugs, free WiFi, Foreign announcements no less. Your windows are shiny and your carpets are clean Even the WC’s had a spritz of Mr. Sheen. I’ve been travelling for nine hours And I’m going mad. But I have to say that standard class ain’t bad. There’s just one small […]
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A pilgrimage to Tremough campus
I wasn’t ready for uni to end. It went by in a happy, hedonistic flash and before I knew it I was trussed up in one of those standard ‘office girl’ shift dresses staring at a computer screen churning out generic website content about things like coronary heart disease and diabetes which – let’s face […]
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Supermarkets: the beating heart of America
I recently got back from a brilliant week’s holiday in Massachusetts. My friend had her wedding just outside a little town called Groton by a big, quiet lake surrounded by forest. It was beautiful, all of it. The wedding, the lake, the white wood-clad New England houses with their dolls-house dormer windows and immaculately striped […]
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Why can’t I be on permanent holiday, and other thoughts
Last week I spent five and a half days in the rural Languedoc Roussillon region of France at the house my grandparents have spent 27 summers restoring from a ruin.
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I think my Italian language app is hiding a dark truth
Since the weekend we spent in Tuscany on our honeymoon, we’ve both been using an app called DuoLingo to learn basic Italian. (By ‘we’ I mean me and my new husband, a term that still makes me feel like I’m a child playing an imaginary game of mummies and daddies). A dream is forming in […]
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Vegas is hyperreality: I think I passed Elton John in a casino but it might not have been him and it doesn’t matter anyway
That’s the thing about Vegas. It’s hard to tell what’s real and what’s not.
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Matt and Zoe’s Insta-challenge: USA
We should have known it was a dangerous mix: Matt’s best man-to-be and a packet of felt tips.
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‘Hihowareyou’ – the American way
Don’t fall into the trap of thinking the girl behind the counter in Taco Bell actually gives a shit about how you are.
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