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V&A Waterfront If you are looking for a place to splash some cash, then you will certainly be at home at the V&A Waterfront. This shopping mall has got all your favourite high street brands as well as the high end designers all under one roof. The sprawling restaurant scene that boarders the port offers...
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Colombia
Colombia still has a notorious reputation across the world, spawned by its booming cocaine business that fed the USA for a number of years and is only just starting to be overturned. With an uneven balance of power between private landowners and the government, there was a feeling of tentative authority when I visited. The...
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medellin colombia
I’m on my second week in Colombia, and the bright, bustling and hot city of Medellín. I wasn’t sure what to make of this country at first, it’s so alien and confusing in its architecture, design and casual atmosphere. But now I’ve got to know it better, I think that I’m adjusting to this new...
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belgium brussels
I know this is a bit late, but the bombings that occurred in Brussels last week made me flinch and grind my teeth with anger. This is not how Belgium should become a household place name, it’s not how people should hear of Brussels or see its architecture, beauty and culture. I’m sad to see...
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In my wanderings around Belgium, I of course stopped off at perhaps its most famous city: Bruges. I even set aside more time for it, anticipating there’d be more to see and was right to do so. Not only are there plenty of attractions, churches and spires to visit, Bruges itself is just a pleasant...
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My very first solo holiday adventure was a month long stay at an elephant refuge centre in Thailand. Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand saves all types of animals, from gibbons to bears, but I only worked with the resident elephants. They were a bunch of lovely, retired old ladies and one young male who’d been rescued...
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Pura Dalem Agung Ubud
Having now finished my tour of Indonesia it is clear to me that Ubud is Bali’s cultural hub. Home to the artful and the creative, this serene town really does live up to the hype of ‘Eat, Pray, Love’. Elizabeth Gilbert’s best selling memoir told the story of one woman’s search for inner balance and...
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So, it’s that the time of year when our Facebook pages and Twitter feeds fill up with images of other people off on their holidays. Whether you are going on holiday or not, it’s hard to avoid that spark of envy when yet another picture of a cocktail pops up against the backdrop drop of...
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