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Three Days in Dominica
We didn’t know much about Dominica before we arrived for our three-day trip while travelling the Caribbean on a budget;…
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Soufrière
Soufrière is a small town on St Lucia’s west coast, about an hour from Vieux Fort, and further along the…
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Introduction to Saint Lucia
St Lucia isn’t the sort of place you’d expect someone like me to visit. However “everywhere is interesting”, and it…
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The Caribbean on a Budget
The Caribbean isn’t normally noted as being a place to travel ‘on a budget’, as it were, being known mainly…
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Male City, Maldives
Even when I first heard about Maldives as a tourist destination, it was always marketed as being a honeymoon-type destination…
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Gulhi Island
So what’s it like to visit one of the Maldivian islands that isn’t a resort island? How would you describe…
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Maldives on a Budget
When I mentioned that I’d been to Maldives and I was going to write some blog posts about travelling there…
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Crossing the borders at Iguazu
The area around Iguazu Falls is on the border of three countries; the falls themselves are on the Iguazu River…
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Visiting the Jesuit Misiones in South America
When I first looked at backpacking in South America, back in around 2012, I noticed entries in the guidebook about…
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Vienna Christmas Markets
In late Autumn 2024, I was sent by Jet2 on one of their Christmas Market breaks weekends, to Vienna. I…
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Visiting Vienna
You may remember in the summer of 2023, Jet2 sent me off on a trip to an all-inclusive resort on…
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A Night At The Vienna State Opera
I’ve never been to the opera. In my head it was always one of those things ‘beyond my pay grade’;…












