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Las Islas Juan Fernandez – a great travel adventure
Asked to write about my greatest adventure. Hmmm. There’ve been a few and so I decided to narrow it down to adventures for which I have access to photos, and having said that I have to apologise...
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Book Review: Full Tilt by Dervla Murphy
If anyone ever asks you to drive three donkeys and a foal for twenty four miles through the Karakoram Mountains, be very firm and refuse to do so … This is the advice given by Dervla Murphy in her book...
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Travel Out Takes – Inexplicable & Unexpected
There are the bizarre travel experiences and these are more often than not when you don’t speak the language and you have no idea what is going on. So much more comfortable to deal with these...
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Dakar Rally – A View From the Inside
Descriptions of this year’s Dakar Rally in the media, once it had finished, ranged from ‘Brutal. Punishing. Exhausting. Back-breaking. Insane’ (Top Gear); … the jaw-dropping beauty and brutality of the...
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Back when it all began …
I would describe my earliest memories as ‘dirty & free’, as in the type of dirt that makes your Mum embarrassed because it may reflect on parenting techniques. My sister had a collection of...
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Sheik Zayed Grand Mosque
LETTER TO MY SISTER – Sheik Zayed Grand Mosque, Abu Dhabi A bit of a lull in the office. I guess it is that time again, where we are close the tournament and I start to hate my work and wish I was a...
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Snapshot: The Ardath Pub
My memory of the Ardath Pub was that it was on the loop of a horseshoe shaped road, and in the middle of nowhere. You could see it for miles and it was a beacon to anyone who drove past. Not quite true...
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Playlist for a Rock Chick
British novelist Nick Hornby wrote a book of essays about songs that he either liked or that had an impact on his life. It got me thinking about a playlist to my life (indulgent!), and tunes that are...
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Snapshot: Global Village, Dubai
Global Village is on the winter calendar again this year in Dubai. An old favourite and well worth a visit. It is a theme park that opens for six months each year from the first weekend November....
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Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary, Assam
Pobitora is one of the safari parks in India where you can get up close and personal with some pretty wild animals. We went on a day trip from Guwahati, in the north eastern state of Assam. The...
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