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Dear Amsterdam. Our love affair was not just a holiday romance!
Dear Amsterdam. Our love affair was not just a holiday romance! Let’s get one thing straight from the get-go. I fell in love in Amsterdam. Not with a person, but with the city itself. It was instantaneous and mutual. Amsterdam was made for me and I was made for...
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Zandvoort in the Netherlands
Zandvoort in the Netherlands was never on our radar, but things changed. Zandvoort is a very popular beach resort not far from Amsterdam. Through chance, we ended up at Zandvoort in the Netherlands. This was because we had met some lovely Dutch men a few years...
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Packing – Should a wife be entitled to put some stuff in her husband’s suitcase when travelling?
Well, here is the story. We are going overseas in 2 days time and when I say overseas I am talking Sydney to Amsterdam, which probably is a number of seas and definitely a long way. I was talking to friends the other day about the perpetual problem of packing...
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Okonomiyaki is a Food
Okonomiyaki is a food. It is a Japanese food. It is a cross between an overfilled omelette or pancake or a very thick pizza; some heathens call it a Japanese pizza – and it is all of these, yet it is not - sort of. You decide. It is quite hard to say what it is, but...
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Capture the Colour
“Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something”. Pancho Villa Green “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” Mark Twain White “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” Freya...
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The Sarubobo or faceless dolls of Japan
I first saw the Sarobobo or faceless dolls of Japan on a visit Takayama in the Gifa prefecture, and when we visited Shirakawa-go a UNESCO Heritage site. Takayama is located in the mountainous Hida region (of beef fame), and is a wonderful old city. These sarubobo or...
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Tokyo is NOT an Expensive City to Visit
Tokyo is NOT an expensive city to visit. Despite Tokyo always appearing in the top 10 as the one of the most expensive cities to live and to visit, this is a fallacy. We have been there five times in the last 5 years and are already booked to go again in 2014. The...
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Top 10 things to do in Istanbul
Istanbul is a sensory overload, and these Top 10 things to do in Istanbul will keep you in a state if amazement. It is a full on destination that challenges all of your senses. As a major city of Turkey, it has some 13.9 million people, the majority of whom are of the...
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Top 5 Small Luxury Australian Hotels
Top 5 Small Luxury Australian Hotels Small luxury hotels have a certain charm for people seeking something a little different from the run of the mill hotels. Boutique hotels offer a more intimate holiday, often ideally located and catering to your every need and...
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