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Mykonos

Before the cruise, the last time I’d been to a Greek Island was when I was two. I went to Rhodes on my very first holiday with my parents, long before my brother came along. (He was still ‘dancing on the clouds’ as my Mum used to say). Apparently I was potty trained on a beach […]

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Santorini

My parents day tripped in Santorini when they holidayed in Greece during the seventies (i.e. the decade before my brother and I came along and my dad sported some seriously groovy sideburns…). The white cubic buildings with blue domes on the cliff top are just the perfect image of Greece, right? You see the pictures in holiday brochures of volcanic […]

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Roman Holiday

I’m going to let you in on a lil’ secret of mine. When someone asks what my favourite film is, officially, and this is the truth, the answer’s Kill Bill (Volume One, if I’m being forced to be specific) – I LOVE all things Tarantino.  But… I have an oh so secret runner up; Only […]

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Paris through Instagram

Amidst all the heartache and horror of Friday the 13th, I couldn’t help thinking back to our little trip there during the hazy, dog days of August. I swore to Sunny that I wouldn’t stomp and storm from monument to museum as I usually do, that instead we’d stroll and sit and savour the last […]

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Berlin

I’m going to put it straight out there; Berlin is so cool. You know that guy/girl that everyone wants to be friends with because they’re just so effortlessly awesome all of the time? Well, Berlin is the city that’s so  cool all the other cities want to be best friends with it (which is kind of ironic […]