The former Portuguese colony of Macau is the perfect example of East meets West. While Macau is still proud of its Portuguese heritage, in the 21st century, it brilliantly fuses its present-day Chinese rule, making it one of the fascinating holiday destinations throughout Asia. Its history goes back to the…
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Bourges, a ‘“City of Art and History” is a beautiful medieval town’ according to its own tourism website. However because of its size, this small city is so often overlooked by its bigger sisters: Nantes, Paris and Lyon. For some, it is probably a place that you have never even heard…
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Bookworms and the beach… yes you have read that correctly, even we need some much needed vitamin D sometimes. Granted, whilst it is fair to say that we normally tend to gravitate towards bookshops, libraries or cafes that house delightful little reading nooks, we have also been known to occasionally…
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What Songs Do You Have on Your Playlist? Unlike most people that choose to hop on a plane at the earliest opportunity, we are a couple who, wherever possible, will drive. For us, there is no better feeling than setting off on an epic road-trip, knowing that we will be…
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Family holidays should be easy to plan, so why is it that when we decided to go on a family trip with my brother and his family at the start of this year, it was not only the location that became problematic but also whether or not the accommodation was…
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With April comes the promise of Easter eggs and April showers. It is the month of April fool’s, cuckoos and newly sprouted buds after the harsher wintry period. With the clocks going forward and the evenings turning lighter many will be venturing outside to tend to their gardens and relax…
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When someone suggests a camping holiday to you, what runs through your mind? Is it the image of you crawling out of a teeny tiny tent each morning in an unceremonious way in order to make the crack of dawn dash to the communal bathrooms that just happens to be…
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I understand, truly I do. You take a break from work and the last thing you want to do is be surrounded by crowds of people, getting in your way, causing long queues, getting in the frame of that all-important selfie that you have tried to take for the fiftieth…
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Charles Dickens, a man that would have been 205 years old today, is still a well-loved author famed for his eloquent descriptions of Victorian London. No other author seems to have captured the filth and squalor of his time in quite the same poetic way. ‘It was the best of…
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February may be a short month in terms of days, but that does not mean that we are short of new releases coming out this month. In fact, whilst researching for this list, it very quickly became evident that February is probably one of the most productive months for new…
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