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Sucre, Bolivia: The Sights You Shouldn’t Miss – Gallop Around The Globe
Sucre is hands down one of the most delightful capital cities I’ve ever visited – primarily because it doesn’t feel like a capital city. It’s relatively small (with a population of just over 300,000),...
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Exploring Bolivia’s Food Scene: My Favourite Restaurants in Sucre
Not only does Bolivia’s constitutional capital, Sucre, have one of the most beautiful, best-preserved historical centres I’ve ever cast eyes upon, but it’s also home to some of the country’s best...
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Convento de San Felipe Neri, Sucre: So Good I Visited Twice!
Bolivia’s constitutional capital, Sucre, was declared a Unesco World Heritage Site in 1991. As a result its historic centre is overflowing with a wealth of impressive museums, well-preserved colonial...
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Why I’ll Never Wear a Money Belt Again: Introducing Clever Travel Companion...
When I was preparing for a six-month solo adventure around Southeast Asia back in 2006 one of the first things I bought was a money belt. It was an essential item for ensuring that my money, cards and...
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How to Plan, Book and Organise your Perfect Euro Trip
Unlike many travel bloggers out there, I actually have a full-time day job that I use to fund my travels. Whilst this affords me financial security and gives me a reliable income, what it also...
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Six Nights in Romania: A Suggested Itinerary and Costs
Plans for my birthday trip away this year once again started with a Skyscanner search ‘UK’ to ‘Everywhere’. I had less than a week to play with (because I’d already managed to wangle four weeks off...
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Discovering the Beauty of Brasov – Gallop Around The Globe
Brasov was the second stop on our six-night independently-organised trip around Romania. Although it’s one of the country’s largest cities, the pace of life here is noticeably slower than the buzzing...
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A Perfect Summery Weekend in Liverpool – Gallop Around The Globe
Despite making a promise to myself last November that Canterbury was going to be the first of many weekends I’d spend exploring a bit more of my beloved home country, aside from visiting friends in...
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Six ideas for your Perfect European winter break
Wow, it’s already September! I can’t quite wrap my head around just how quickly this year is flying by; it seems only a few weeks ago that I was cycling my way around Cuba. I can already feel the...
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Exploring the Beauty of Decay in Bucharest with the Interesting Times Bureau
Bucharest is a strange city. It’s one of the few I’ve visited where the Old Town was not my favourite part. Don’t get me wrong, there were parts that I liked a lot – the grand architecture, the...
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A Two-day Hike to the Maragua Crater, Bolivia
Wherever you are in Bolivia, you’re never far from incredible natural wonders and awe-inspiring landscapes. And just 46 kilometres from the country’s charming capital city is one of Bolivia’s most...
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Where to Find the Best Beaches on Paxos – Gallop Around The Globe
I first visited Paxos on a day-trip from Corfu when I was just 16. I never imagined that, years later, I would return to the island on three separate occasions to spend a total amount of six weeks...
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A Bizarre Dining Experience at Poznan’s Dark Restaurant – Gallop Around The...
I’m always open to new experiences. When I travel I constantly try to challenge myself and to venture outside of my comfort zone. So when I discovered that Poznan, Poland (where I was headed for a...
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A Three-day Itinerary for Poznan, Poland – Gallop Around The Globe
“You’re going where?” my work colleagues asked me. “Poznan,” I replied. “It’s the fifth largest city in Poland.” Blank faces stared back at me. Despite the fact that budget airline, Ryanair run...
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Exploring the Culinary Delights of Poznan, Poland – Gallop Around The Globe
If you read the three-day itinerary for Poznan that I posted last week, you may have noticed a bit of a theme running through it. Yup, we ate so well in Poznan. I honestly believe that, over time,...
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Exploring the Strange and Surreal Valleys of Cappadocia
Ten years ago it used to be from the pages of a travel magazine that we’d take inspiration for new trips. Now it’s Pinterest. At least it was when I was browsing my Pinterest feed one day that I found...
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Bucket List Indonesia: Three Reasons to Visit Bogor
My Instagram feed seems to have been filled with beautiful photos of Indonesia lately. Several of my favourite bloggers have been exploring the region as part of a press trip organised by Indonesia...
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A 10-day Turkey Itinerary: Istanbul, Pamukkale, and Cappadocia
I’ve written previously on this blog about a few of my favourite sights, sounds, and flavours of Istanbul, about the bizarre landscapes and ancient ruins of Pamukkale, and about my three-day...
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Snapshots of Lisbon: My Favourite Parts of the City
Despite the fact that this blog has been running for a little over three years now (I can’t quite believe it; where has all that time gone?), I still have not managed to write about all the places I’ve...
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In Review: A Look Back at the Highs and Lows of 2016
There’s no denying the fact that 2016 is a year that many of us will find difficult to forget. It’s the year that the UK voted to leave the EU and the year America elected Donald Trump as their new...
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