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Catch, cook, and eat your own salmon, New Zealand-style

May 7, 2013
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Today, Mr TravelEachDay made me a delicious smoked salmon and cream cheese bagel – perfect for this sunny and warm British weather. And it brought on one of those ‘do you remember when…’ moments: a brilliantly crisp memory of sinking my teeth into a freshly caught, perfectly smoked piece of salmon one afternoon on New [...]

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Salkantay: the alternative Inca Trail

February 27, 2013
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When I travelled to South America, visiting Machu Picchu was a ‘must’ on my list, but I didn’t want to have to book months in advance for the Inca Trail itself. I’d heard great things about the alternatives from other travellers, so was pretty pleased to turn up in Cuzco and book the 5 day [...]

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Cycling the Mekong Discovery Trail

October 9, 2012
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I’m not a big cyclist. I blame it on living on a steep hill for my entire childhood and a close run-in with drowning in a lake whilst learning. I was the only one in my group whose back wheel skidded over the edge of The World’s Most Dangerous Road in Bolivia, and yet the [...]

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A taste of New Zealand… in Devon

October 3, 2012
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I could easily say that the days I spent in Marlborough, New Zealand, were amongst the best of my life. We enjoyed the kind of warm weather that soaks into your bones without making you sweat, with blue skies and blobs of meringue for clouds. We camped in comfort by a stream filled with ducks [...]

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Stargazing in Chile

September 24, 2012
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After a seven hour bus journey from the seaside resort of Viña del Mar, past cacti-covered hills and glimpses down to deserted bays, we arrived at the pretty Chilean town of La Serena. After a cup of tea at our hostel, we wandered the paint-peeling streets and admired the sunset before tucking into some Chilean [...]

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Eco-lodging it up in Cambodia

September 14, 2012
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Every so often on our RTW trip, even on our shoestring budget, the accommodation was the destination. That was just the case for our visit to two of Cambodia’s prettiest coastal towns, Kep and Kampot. It was a short hop from the (relatively) bright lights of Phnom Penh to Kep, so sleepy it could barely [...]

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Swimming with whale sharks in Mexico

August 2, 2012
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I’ve just entered the Daily Mail’s travel writing competition. The challenge? To write a 200-word article about any of the Mail Travel’s destinations. Squeezing such an amazing experience into just 200 words was quite a struggle, but all good practice for saying what you want to say in as few words as possible! Here’s my [...]

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