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Cyprus: Birthplace of a Goddess

October 22, 2019October 25, 2019 Europe, Featured, Nature, Tourist Attraction, Travelling cyprus, Greece

Most people visit Cyprus during the summer, but you shouldn't avoid this charming Mediterranean island during low season. Known for being the birthplace of Aphrodite: the Goddess of Beauty, Cyprus has much to love -

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Around the World in 26 Letters: My Travel Alphabet

April 12, 2015April 12, 2015 Asia, Beaches, Europe, Featured, Food and Drink, History, Japan, Life in India, Life in Sweden, Literature, Nature, Photography, South America, Swedish Tourism, Top Ten, Travelling army, asia, atacama desert, aurora, bolivia, bosnia, bucharest, caribbean, chile, china, colombia, dracula, edinburgh, estonia, europe, fuji, gotland, Greece, holi, iceland, iguassu, iguazu falls, india, isle of skye, istanbul, japan, Jökulsárlón, kleftiko, lapland, machu picchu, mary king close, mostar, Mumbai, new york city, northern lights, NYC, ogmore, ogmore beach, ogmore by sea, parque tayrona, peru, qatar airways, romania, rurrenabaque, san blas, scotland, skye, sri lanka, stari most, sweden, taj mahal, tallinn, terracotta warriors, udaipur, unawatuna, valparaiso, visby, wales, waterfalls, xi'an, yamuna river, zostel

I’ve been travelling the world, on-and-off, for almost 16 years—ever since an adventurous 4 week train journey took me through Germany, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic into Romania back in the days when

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10 Foods To Try in Europe

September 28, 2013January 13, 2014 Europe, Food and Drink belgrade, bosnia, burek, cevapcici, cornish pasty, cornwall, croatia, culinary tour, europe, food, goulash, Greece, hungary, istanbul, kajmak, kleftiko, kremna rezina, lake bled, lamacun, lokum, mostar, pierogi, poland, serbia, slovenia, turkey, uk

Warning: This post will make you hungry! I had not been travelling for long before I realised that my trip would become a culinary tour of Europe, devoted mainly to trying different, and amazing, new

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The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly—A Week in Corfu

August 15, 2011September 10, 2011 Beaches, Europe, Food and Drink, Travelling agios georgios, corfu, Greece, olympic holidays, package holidays, skywings

If you read my last post then you will know that I had a few reservations about booking a package holiday but decided to go ahead and book a week to Corfu in Greece. Well

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Package Holidays: Love Them or Loathe Them?

August 8, 2011September 10, 2011 Beaches, Europe, Travelling all inclusive holiday, Greece, package holiday

Most people spend the year looking forward to the time when they can take a well-earned rest from the hard work of the daily grind. Many people envisage a couple of weeks on a sun-soaked

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Guest Post: The Best Greek Restaurant I Never Knew

July 29, 2011October 11, 2011 Europe, Travelling Greece

In honour of my travels to Greece next week, I thought I'd get in the Greek mood so here is a guest post from David Baboulene to get you into the mediterranean mood! David ‘Windy’

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Read Your Way Around The World

April 2, 2011October 11, 2011 Asia, Travelling bram stoker, captain corelli's mandolin, david mitchell, dracula, ghostwritten, graham greene, Greece, heart of darkness, japan, joseph conrad, louis debernieres, reading, saigon, the quiet american, tokyo, travel books, vietnam

Travel books don’t necessarily have to be books written by travellers, most of the books that have inspired me to travel are novels in which the setting is important to the atmosphere of the book.

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