Category: Travel
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Overtourism or over tourism?
If travel is a passion of yours (obviously, why else would you be here?), you’ll have heard the term overtourism. Whether it was Barcelona and Japan restricting the number of Airbnbs, Venice taxing day trippersintroducing strict rules around where you can sit, or Croatia having to limit how many people can visit the city of…
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How to spice up your life
Morocco bound? Head for the souks and find the spices to recreate the regions’ dishes in the afterglow of a Moroccan holiday. Wandering through the souks or bazaars of the cities and towns of Morocco (which are always buzzing with shopping excitement and are immaculate and clean) you are drawn to stalls that shine with…
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How to solve a mystery
or – how to solve a mystery picnic – or . . . . For a birthday, Christmas, reward or any time present really I’m loving receiving a themed gift voucher. I’ve been lucky enough to receive vouchers for numerous afternoon teas (embraced with gusto) – at lots of lovely and varied locations; a sky…
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The prettiest town in the world
Click on here to read about the prettiest town in the world . . .Hallstatt in Austria. MD-issue7-features-30-35 The prettiest town in the world
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England’s Peak of Perfection
From heather-clad moors, grand homes, to rugged mountains and sweeping vales, pretty villages and resplendent gardens . . . it’s all here. I’m such a sucker for anything Pride and Prejudice, and as Miss Elizabeth Bennet and her aunt and uncle curve around the road and Pemberley appears before them – they gasp, as I…
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travelgaltravels.wordpress.com/2017/10/03/venice-as-the-day-begins/
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Rain
#Bloganuary challenge She was the first to hear it. Much lighter than the scrape of claws or clumsy attempts at running across the corrugated iron roof. It was a smattering of pencil point taps. She lay on her back, now alert to the increasing noise on the tin roof and the murmurs of the household…
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Travel: New Zealand and how to Hobbit – it’s a shire thing! – Travelgal on the move
Listening to callers on the radio today I heard many folk say they had never been to New Zealand . . . how can that be. So close and so beautiful. This was my first o/s journey in the 70s, and what an adventure. One of the callers today said she wanted to meet a……
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Stay in a Hobbit Hole New Zealand – NZ Travel Organiser
Can you stay in a hobbit hole in New Zealand? Everyone has heard of the Hobbiton Movie Set Tour, but this is a true Lord of the Rings experience. — Read on www.nztravelorganiser.com/stay-hobbit-hole-new-zealand/
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In praise of cheeses
In praise of cheeses In praise of cheeses — Read on travelgaltravels.com/2017/04/29/in-praise-of-cheeses/