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How to spend a weekend in Toulouse
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Continue reading →: How to spend a weekend in ToulouseI love solo travelling. For further-flung trips, nothing else beats the freedom of it. But when I was planning a short and sweet weekend away in what’s known as ‘The Pink City’, I thought I had nothing Toulouse, and so I invited my best friend along to explore with me.…
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My Top 8 Tips for Two Weeks in Borneo
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Continue reading →: My Top 8 Tips for Two Weeks in BorneoI have always had a fascination with great apes, with orangutans being my favourite. Something about their humanlike arms, copper coats and expressive faces has always drawn me to them. Perhaps it all stemmed from King Louis in The Jungle Book — I’ll never really know. Borneo is one of…
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Sarajevo & Mostar: 4 days in Bosnia’s main cities
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Continue reading →: Sarajevo & Mostar: 4 days in Bosnia’s main citiesBosnia has always been intriguing to me. I was a small child in the 1990s when the Bosnian war took place, and I vividly remember seeing the smoky images of bombed buildings, destruction and distress on our television set at home. For a long time, even just the word ‘Bosnia’…
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Top 10 Tips for Solo Travelling
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Continue reading →: Top 10 Tips for Solo TravellingMy solo travel journey began when I lost my passport the night before a school trip to Rome. Although it was just the flight I had to embark on alone (two days after everyone else), it gave me confidence as a teenager and made me realise that when something goes…
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My One Month Colombia Backpacking Itinerary
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Continue reading →: My One Month Colombia Backpacking ItineraryIt was the start of the year and the grey clouds of London were looming over me. Winters in the Big Smoke can feel never-ending, but luckily I was forming plans to swap this drab city for colourful Colombia in a few months’ time. “I need some inspiration,” I thought,…
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Backpacking in Mexico: My Top 5 Places
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Continue reading →: Backpacking in Mexico: My Top 5 PlacesFrom tacos to tequila, mariachi bands to Mayan ruins, Mexico is famous throughout the world for many things. But this vast and varied country has a lot more to offer than you think. I loved almost everywhere that I visited during my six weeks in the country, with special moments…
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Laguna de Chacahua — Mexico’s best-kept secret
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Continue reading →: Laguna de Chacahua — Mexico’s best-kept secretWhen I decided to write about such a beautiful, unknown part of the Mexican coastline, it made me feel a little uneasy — I didn’t want to be a contributing factor towards its inevitable demise as it slowly grows in popularity over the years. Then I remembered that only about…
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Road-tripping around Jamaica
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Continue reading →: Road-tripping around JamaicaI had wanted to visit Jamaica for years. But all-inclusive resorts aren’t my thing and it seemed that most people visited this alluring Caribbean island to sprawl out on its magnificent beaches all day. When one of my aunts told me that she went to Jamaica (reluctantly) when a friend…
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Ten Travel Tips for Underrated Albania
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Continue reading →: Ten Travel Tips for Underrated AlbaniaI don’t know why I hadn’t visited Albania before now. Having been to most Balkan countries, it was one that I hadn’t even considered until this year, despite my best friend having a daughter who is half Albanian. As one of the least visited countries in Europe, clearly I wasn’t…
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Solo in Sri Lanka: My Top 10 Moments
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Continue reading →: Solo in Sri Lanka: My Top 10 MomentsIn 2020, I decided to embark on a solo backpacking trip to Sri Lanka. In 2023, I finally went on this trip. Having travelled a lot with friends, work and occasionally by myself, I couldn’t wait to go solo and do exactly what I wanted to do, when I wanted…
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Wild Camping on the Isle of Skye
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Continue reading →: Wild Camping on the Isle of Skye“I got a tent for Christmas and need to do something with it. Do you have any ideas?” It was a dull January morning and I was frantically sending a voice note to my friend Thidara, eager to have another trip in the pipeline. I had just landed back to…
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Kilifi: The best things to do in Kenya’s hidden gem
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Continue reading →: Kilifi: The best things to do in Kenya’s hidden gemWith so much to see in the world, I rarely visit anywhere more than once. Exceptions have been Amsterdam (I think I could live there), New York (I’ve just happened to have visited twice) and Kenya. Kenya is a country close to my heart. I have spent more time there…
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