Category: Travel
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STRANGERS IN PARIS
Paris is often touted as the city for lovers, but it is much more than that, it is a city that invites a singleness and lonesomeness that does not stigmatise. It is a place where you can, on having lunch by yourself, make friends with the person sat next to you, and swap stories that…
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PARIS- QUICK & DIRTY
If like me, you are fortunate enough to live in the UK, you can visit most countries in Europe in a day or a weekend, itinerary depending, and have a good time of it. Paris you can visit for a good few hours, quick and dirty: a coffee on arrival, an exhibition, lunch, a cocktail…
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FLORENCE in 120 Minutes- ESCHER
On the way home from the dreamiest of places with a couple hours to kill, Florence was a whistle stop and it was fortuitous that an exhibition on Escher was on in the Museum of Innocence, up the road from il Duomo. Which it turns out was all we had time for. ESCHER: a visionary…
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EDINBURGH, THE ENDEARING
You know how everyone has a happy place? Well Edinburgh is that place, that happy place for me. Besides the book festival which is the best time to be there because the city is buzzing, but never crowded, the city makes you feel like a part of it; like you are among kindred. Winter is…
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SUMMER ROAD TRIP- OXFORD
Because airlines are moving reckless these days, we need to find other ways to get away and if planes are not doing the job, then trains and automobiles will have to do. There are places of great beauty to visit on these isles, beauty and history which is why I tend to never go away…
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WILD, WILD, SCOTLAND – GLENEAGLES, THE UNFORGETTABLE
It is unfair that a place be so magical and pretty and historic and enchanting all at once with EVERYTHING… every single thing, to do and more. It is unfair that at every corner awaits a surprise, a charming reveal, you feel spoiled upon walking in because everyone is falling over themselves to cater to…
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PARIS | A SHORT STOP
PARIS is a city you do with friends not just lovers, but your best friends. Yes, its the Louvre and croissants and strolling along the Seine but it is a city for tipsy nights ambling along the Champs Elysée, giggling delightfully whilst watching the Eiffel Tower light show just before midnight. It is a city…
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Manuel Amado | An Extraordinary Ordinariness
Curated by Paula Rego and Catarina Alfaro- The Summer Was Just Like A House To Live In, Where Everything Is… Casa das Historías, Cascais Portugal One of the best things about Art and certain artists is their ability to interprete the ordinary and make it a little less so. The more successful ones do it…
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CHURCHES OF EUROPE | IGREJAS DE SAO ROQUE & SANTA MARIA DE BELEM
Reportedly housing one of, if not, the richest chapel in Europe, Igreja de Sao Roque is unassuming from the outside, in comparison to the other buildings around it, and the architecture of Portugal, the exterior of the church is plain and uninspiring. However, step inside and you are transported to another world. Another time. Another…