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Day 1 Valentine’s Day, 2019 This trip over to Armenia, ancestral home of the kith and kin of Kourtney, Kendal, Kylie and Kim began with flight FZ717 to Yerevan from Terminal 2, Dubai International. Taken initially by our regular Abu Dhabi driver, we had to change to a normal taxi at a Dubai hotel because of the risk of heavy fines for a non-registered taxi...
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Cute anecdote The Beirut taxi driver, a bronzed, seventysomething old timer, face deeply etched with the wrinkles of war, squeezes my hand as we pull up outside Lebanon’s only non-military airport, saying, “Merci d’être venu au Liban et reviens vite” (thanks for coming to Lebanon and come back quickly) On the short fifteen-minute drive along the sun-kissed coast we have talked about the many changes...
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Day 1: Briefing and Preparation I can’t say that my mind has allowed me to be entirely peaceful about the venture I am about to undertake. Every time and everywhere I read about the Salkantay trek to Machu Picchu, I hear words like “challenging” and “high level of fitness.” Do I have a high level of fitness, even at low altitude, without the effects of...
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Bolivia is a country with some of the most stunning natural scenery I’ve seen, from the Andes, to Lake Titicaca, to the Uyuni salt flats. Situated about ten hours drive from La Paz, the Uyuni salt flats are an incredible natural phenomenon. Pretty much all of the tour companies based in and around Uyuni town follow the same itinerary. You just have to do a...
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I wasn’t going to visit Valparaiso until I met a young couple living in Chile in a Santiago rock bar. They showed me a picture of the swathe of coloured roofs clinging on to a steep Valparaiso hillside and the art and photography lover in me was instantly hooked. Just one and a half hours by bus from Santiago (that’s just down the road in...
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Call me weird, call me a kook, but I have this thing for graveyards/cemeteries. I love browsing, the same way you would browse in a bookstore. I love working out ages, looking for clues to help me build a picture of the person’s life before they moved on. In addition to this I love the aesthetics of the place, the angles, the light, the carefully...
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La Boca is a working class district of Buenos Aires and is a place that you should visit at your own peril. So say the guide books, and so said the Argentines I spoke to before going. I was advised not to walk to there, but to get the bus. Wise boy: I did. I hopped on the 152 bus from the end of Avenida...
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To meander unplanned through a city is to enter on a voyage of fresh discovery. On that journey you discover anything that your senses and your mind are open to. My stroll through Montevideo today was one such experience. Walking for several hours from the port market in the old town along Sarandi pedestrian street, I arrived at the Ciudadela Gate, which marks the transition...
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