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Cathay Pacific Plane

That Feeling You Get The Night Before Tomorrow

Tomorrow.

Tomorrow it will be too late to plan and too late to pack.

Tomorrow, the dragon route begins…

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Igloo festivals last for such a short time

An Igloo Festival in Japan

Kamakura. It’s one of those words I’d never heard until I went to Yokote in north Japan.

Snow was falling as I arrived in the city, 260 miles from Tokyo. Softly at first, like…

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Barbados Today

How Slaves Found Freedom in Barbados (And How We Can Do The Same)

When the change came, the island held its breath. What would happen the following day?

Would people turn up to work? Or would they leave?

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Snowy rooftops in Krakow

A Song in the Snow – Photos of Krakow from the Sky

It only takes two hundred and thirty nine steps to reach a completely different city. To reach a song from the past that hauntingly blends with the snow that falls without sound.

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Barbados coast

Freedom & Slavery in Barbados. It’s Not Black & White

The Club, Barbados My room has the perfect view. At dawn, sparkle spills across the [...]

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Barbados beach

Barbados, George Washington, And Me.

“In the cool of the evening we rode in the country and were perfectly enraptured [...]

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Blue figure racing in Marrakech

Twelve Things Travel Taught Me in 2012

1)      That where you’re from matters more than I want to believe. 2012 was the [...]

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Toronto Distillery Pencils

Behind Closed Doors in Toronto

“If you see a door, open it.”

No, these weren’t the words of a self-help guru or spiritual master. These were the words of a Torontonian as she left us at…

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Breathing In the Atlas Mountains

Sometimes I dream that I am falling. Apparently, everyone does. But more often than that…

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Great Travel Photography

And so I have travelled around the world through other people’s photos, drunk and giddy with power to begin with before becoming rather overwhelmed by all the talent out there by the end…

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Coloured houses in Girona as Catalonia campaigns for independence and the use of the word "home"

Girona: Short and Sweet

I love the medieval city of Girona, although a city this size scarcely seems large [...]

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It’s Not Easy Seeing Green

The time has come, however, for me to make my choice and announce the winner of the “green” category. I dreamed of writing about chlorophyll, the pigment that gives nature its very green colour and that also helps create oxygen and sugar from sunlight and water. Then, Kermit the frog popped into my head…

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Maldive Circles

Photos of the Maldives: Tears & Inspiration

The aeroplane bobbed on the water. The spray shimmered like tears on the window, giant baubles of longing just waiting for something to happen or someone to notice…

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Why I HAVEN’T Quit my Job to Travel the World Full-Time

Today’s guest post is by Lillie Marshall.  She  is an energetic, six-foot tall Boston Teacher who [...]

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A Journey Along Alaska’s Maritime Highway

This summer, I was lucky enough to make a solo trip to Alaska. While this wasn’t my first

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Interview with Shark Photographer, Liv Gaunt

How did you get into shark photography? Did the photography come first or the sharks?

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Yellow - Capture the colour

Stop What You’re Doing And Look At These

A sneaky peek at some of the best travel photographs on the web as part of the Capture the Colour photography competition…

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sunrise kakadu

Sunrise in Kakadu, Australia

Right now I’m at the airport, dashing to repack and catch my flight. Shorts and…

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Atlantis Found – The Ties Between Three Islands

The truth behind the photos at Atlantis…

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Ode to the sea carpenter

An Ode to the Sea

Pinning dreams of the ocean down to the mast in the Grenadines…

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