Have you ever explored the souks of Marrakech? Morocco is the most atmospheric country I’ve ever visited. There are horse-drawn carts moving bumpily along palm-tree-lined highways; the red flags with green…
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Camino de Santiago Challenges Solo Travel Spain Travel PlansEl Camino de Santiago: I’m Walking ‘The Way’ Across Spain
Over Christmas, my friend announced that she’s planning to run the London marathon in April. She’s running for a cause important to both of us: her mum passed away from breast cancer…
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“So where are you from?” asks the girl chopping up onions beside me. We’ve been preparing food in the companionable semi-silence of a small hostel kitchen for a good few minutes: it’s…
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At the top of Ceahlau mountain sits a little red house. There is a garden just outside the front door, fenced in by a wooden gate, which looks out across a…
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Good English food is one of the things I find the hardest to be apart from when I’m travelling. When I last came back to London in January, I spent two…
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Challenges Mental Health Personal Peru South AmericaOn Fear, Self Deprecation and my Traveller Alter Ego
“I hate this,” I said, slightly pathetically, to the empty air around me. There was nobody near enough to hear the words: the only people capable of listening were already halfway…
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Bolivia Challenges South AmericaFacing my Fears at Parque Nacional Torotoro, Bolivia’s Dinosaur Park
The road gets steep and narrow on the bus ride to Parque Nacional Torotoro. “Oh god,” I breathed in deeply, trying to tear my eyes away from the blurry window and…
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I have a bit of an affinity for cemeteries. As a child, on my family’s twice-yearly visits to my grandpa’s grave in Somerset, there were three other plots I used to…
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Bolivia Challenges Personal Solo Travel South America What the hell?An All Night Long Dance with the San Pedro Cactus
They say that Lake Titicaca is a place of magic. I didn’t know how true that was until I arrived. I’d been standing in the reception of my Isla del Sol…
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This is the final installment of a three part series about my trek to Machu Picchu. Read the first and second installments here! The Incas were blessed with ridiculously small feet.…