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On Disconnecting: An Unintentional Digital Detox

Laptop.  iPad.  Samsung Galaxy.  Nokia Lumia.  Twitter.  Facebook.  Instagram.  Email.  As a journalist by day and travel blogger by night, I’m nearly always connected to a device, or the internet (or both). So what happens when you remove all of…

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An All-Inclusive Stay at Diani Sea Resort, Kenya

An all-inclusive package holiday? I’ll admit it: I was sceptical. I had imagined the worst-case scenario of being stuck inside the hotel compound and subject to meals of burgers and chips, stereotypical scenes of package beach deals filling my head. I…

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A Stunning Kenyan Safari, Part II: Tsavo West

“Humbling” was the word used by a fellow traveller to describe the day’s safari when we met at the Sarova Salt Lick Game Lodge at the edge of Kenya’s Tsavo West National Park, and humbling it certainly was. When your head…

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A Stunning Kenyan Safari, Part I: Tsavo East

The first thing I noticed was the sky. It seemed bigger, somehow, than the sky at home: an enormous, endless expanse, blue and white and bright, watching over the rusty-red earth and dusty scrubland that makes up Tsavo East, Kenya’s…

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An Afternoon Exploring Mombasa

Mombasa was full of life.  You could almost feel it pulsing: chaotic, messy, loud, and exuberant.  Whether it was the clamour of tuk tuk horns and calls to prayer, or the whiff of warm, raw meat mingling with curry powder,…

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First Impressions of Incredible Kenya

As I write, my body is back in Britain, but my heart and head are still in Kenya, still in East Africa.  The unexpected end to my 14-day-stay on the Kenyan coast has meant that the latter is taking some…

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