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Book: You Had Me at Ice Cream

From treadmill to true love? Zara isn’t what Oliver expects when he enlists a personal trainer named “Zee” to shed his Covid kilos. She’s blonde, brainy, and never says no to a Magnum – something Oliver can get on board with being an ice cream lover himself. Suddenly, exercising is[…]

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Book: The Illiterate Prince

Reads like a travel log for a world that doesn’t exist! What do you do when you can’t travel? You write about travel! And sometimes that’s traveling in your mind. I’ve just finished my fourth book which is a fantasy novel. New World. New Him. Wake. Work. Sleep. Repeat. Eric[…]

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Caribbean Cruise: St George’s, Grenada

What turned out to be our final stop onshore was the Ecotrek to the Bamboo Falls. It’s not on Google Maps but it’s close to the Seven Sisters Waterfalls in the Grand Etang National Park. We started off with the usual collection by our tour guides, and then we were[…]

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Caribbean Cruise: St Johns, Antigua

We’re not from Australia, but were still a little nervous about swimming with creatures that had killed Steve Irwin. We needn’t have worried – as our briefings explained, these were different animals and unless we applied force onto the barb, it was physically impossible for the stingrays to harm us.[…]

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Barbados from North to South

Animal Flower Cave Starting off at the northern most point of the island is the Animal Flower Cave, so called because the initial discoverers of the sea-anemones which resided in the pools thought that they were flowers. But when they touched them and the “flowers” reacted, they changed their opinion![…]

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Visiting Jordan for 10 Days

As soon as the Covid-19 related lockdown looked like it might be relaxing, we booked our trip to Jordan. I’d been before and Ange was interested in whether my stories about Jerash and Petra were accurate, and I had omitted Wadi Rum last time, so I was intrigued as to[…]

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