I come from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. And if you knew the kind of chants which away fans at my local football club revel in singing on a weekly basis, you wouldn’t begrudge me my desire to travel the world. You wouldn’t blame me for wanting to see what great wonders lie beyond the Eden Shopping...
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As I join you this week, dearest readers, I would like to thank you. By writing this piece, I have been saved from the dark depths of summer holiday obscurity. And by dark, I mean very dark. Really quite dark actually. Dark. You have saved me from a DVD omnibus...
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When The Proclaimers first confessed in 1988 that they “would walk 500 miles and… would walk 500 more”, their intention wasn’t to foreshadow a trend for endurance travelling that would develop almost 40 years later. How do I know this? Because their next piece of insightful advice was “da da...
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As I write this article, I am in the midst of an unfortunate bout of I what I like to call ‘West-Side Story’ syndrome: ‘I wanna be in America…’. For those who read my last article on Solo vs Group Travel, you will know that I have been engrossed in...
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The group versus solo travel debate is one that all committed travellers should consider when booking their next getaway. This is particularly the case for a language student such as myself, as the prospects of travelling alone are ones I will need to consider prior to my year abroad. There...
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