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When you set off to travel it can be very easy to underestimate the time it will take you to get about from place to place and the desire to truly see each place you hoped to visit on your very careful, or haphazardly made-up, itinerary often escapes you. Making sure you actually get a...
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Where white sands met blue shorelines, where the sun melts into idyllic lilac hues behind the rocky landscape, where days dissolve into one another and time stands still – that’s Bottle Beach. This genuine hidden gem is one of Koh Phangan’s best kept secrets. The deserted cove that can only be reached by boat offers...
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The Taj Mahal is regarded as one of the eight wonders of the world, and some Western historians have noted that its architectural beauty has yet to be surpassed to this day. ‘Taj Mahal’, which literally means ‘crown of palaces,’ is taken from Persian and Arabic languages and truly lives up to its grand name. The...
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India can be a hectic country to travel. Amazing, but hectic. So when it came time for us to call curtain on our time there we knew there was only one place we wanted to bid our farewells – and that place was Kerala. The backwaters of Kerala are not only a visual spectacle but...
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As soon as I find myself by the sea there are two things on my mind – sun tanning and seafood. Not necessarily in that order. Goa, I’m glad to say though delivered on both counts. Despite only having a number of limited days in Goa we managed to chow down on our fair share of...
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I’m not the most agile of humans. It’s all I can do not to trip on solid ground, so put me on top of a wave on a foam board and I’m not exactly filled with confidence that I will be at one with the sea. But as they say…when in Rome. Or this case Sri...
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Supposedly Indian trains are always on time – ours wasn’t and waiting at Goa’s station was a daunting experience. Ten o’clock at night it was dark, but most certainly not deserted. Crowds of people spilled out from the ticket hall onto the platform, all of them weighed down with copious amounts of luggage, none of...
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After our tour of India’s Golden Triangle we’d had our fill of city life for a while and were most definitely in need of some R&R. We settled on Goa for our next stop in favour of the sea over the smog. We arrived late on the evening of the 10th to a sticky heat and...
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On Wednesday the 3rd of March with tears streaming down my face and and a head full of thoughts that could wander of the edge of this earth I  waved goodbye to my family and boarded a flight from London to Delhi to start a six month adventure that I knew would not only test my...
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I don’t consider myself a high maintenance girl. I have pretty simple needs really – I can get ready in 15 minutes flat, full face of make up and all. I’m happy to throw on a pair of jeans and a tee, and as long as I’m given a pair of shades I will happily...
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