Category: All-posts
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Exploring Athens: Part 1
Travel authors tend to propose an optimum amount of time to spend in a city, typically ranging between 1 and 3 days. Whilst this might be applicable to holiday-makers, it doesn’t really apply to me. As we know, I am not tied by the same time constraints and therefore my approach also offers me a slower pace meaning…
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Day 2 in the backpacker house
So what was my first night’s stay in a hostel really like? Well, once the initial shock of adapting to my surroundings wore off, I found it quite easy to drop the slightly snobby attitude. On closer inspection, everything was really quite clean and tidy. (As people spotted and commented on in yesterday’s post).…
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My inaugural backpacker experience
I’ve had a strangely pleasant 24 hours but for someone who claims to be super-organized, would you believe that I could turn up in Greece (night time I might add) not knowing where I was staying??? Well, that’s actually what happened… Various important document print-outs were one of my many remaining tasks I planned…
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My first destination – revealed
Although not quite the suspense of ‘Who killed Lucy Beale?’ – I think I’ve done an OK job at generating some intrigue to the whereabouts of my first port of call………………………….. A handful of you suspected I would go straight to Australia or New Zealand. I mean, really…!?Geographically speaking, there is so much of the…