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    How To Make The Most Of Your Travels

    LIVE LIFE TO THE FULLEST ⇷☓⇸ Looking for something new in life? Well head for the airport and travel to new destinations for your global adventure around the world – you won’t be disappointed! You may have lists for everything already – what to pack, gadgets you need, destinations you want to visit and activities you want to experience.  However, what you may forget to do is to take a step back and actually enjoy your experiences. To actually make the most of your new adventures you will need to be able to relax, chill out and be open minded about the new environments you will suddenly find yourself in.…

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    Motorbiking Through Vietnam

    A SHORT STORY OF ADVENTURES ⇷☓⇸ The Intro Straddling the warm wet seat of my motorbike I look around me, taking in the solid sheets of water that are raining down outside and hammering on the tin roof above me. Huddled in the dark, around a small portable TV, two young Vietnamese girls curiously stare at me, the familiar sound of The Simpsons voices fill the air, the screen illuminating their faces in the darkness. I nod and smile to their father who is ushering me further inside the thrown together shack beside the road out of the rain, killing my engine as I do so. Their mother graciously pulls…

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    Books

    A WORLD OF WONDER AND SHORT STORIES ⇷☓⇸ For over eleven years I have been writing short stories, novels, poems, quotes and ramblings, ranging every genre you can possibly think of. Back in 2013 I decided that these stories should leave the hidden vault on my laptop and enter the world as a book for every Tom, Dick & Harry to read. With a 5 star rating on Amazon and a 4.40 star on Goodreads, it sets you up for some imaginative writing and stories – and a great companion for travelling or short breaks! Buy it here now:   Blurb: ‘Ever wondered what it’s like to be in someone…

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    The Top 10 Things To Do In Singapore

    EXPLORING THIS INCREDIBLE CLEAN CITY ⇷☓⇸ Singapore is a beautiful cosmopolitan city that became one of the world’s leading economic centers in shipping and banking. This place is expensive by Southeast Asian standards with everything costing about double what it does elsewhere in the region. While most people come here for a couple of days just to “do” Singapore and check it off their bucket list, over the past few years, the city has shed some of its stuffy nature and become a much more fun city. I love this city and think it deserves longer than that. There’s a lot to do here from incredible tropical parks by the Malaysian…

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    Travel Wallets? Look No Further With Lorton & Horn

    THE ESSENTIAL WALLET FOR ALL YOUR TRAVELLING NEEDS ⇷☓⇸ Whether you’re off on a quick city break to Amsterdam, trekking through the jungles of Laos or going on a beach holiday to Croatia, going on holiday comes with plenty of paperwork. Passports, currency, boarding passes, bank cards, booking confirmations, travel insurance – you need it all, and it all needs a place to go. That is where a travel wallet can come in, to keep everything nice and tidy and Lorton & Horn can provide exactly what you need! Their approach is quite different to any that I have come across online and in store, they pride themselves on quality  and have…