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Bicester on my tongue
I go mad at the Bicester Outlet Village in England, where dozens of designer fashion and lifestyle shops nestle on cobble lanes in a new-yet-old-fashioned village of cheap and discounted shopping...
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Ghost Forest
Ghost Forest is an impacting statement of deforestation from the idea one woman had to transport the roots and trunks of ten trees from the rainforest of Ghana to London, Copenhagen and Oxford...
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Ale and hearty
The 10th annual Brackley Beer Festival saw hundreds of locals converge on the town square to catch up with old mates and watch bands play on a truck stage and sell the festival out of beer...
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Taking liberty
With a combination of up-to-the-minute designer fashion and olde world charm, my favourite shop in the world is Liberty of London, with its stunning displays of beautiful fashion set in a historic wood-panelled building on Regent Street...
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Devonshire tease
We drive around the coastline of Devon in Southwest England for a Devonshire Tea and find secluded villages full of charm - not to mention lots of tourist tat in the shops - and plenty of natural beauty too...
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From Infidel to Nomad
Nomad is the latest offering from best selling Somalian author Ayann Hirsi Ali and is the follow up to her best seller autobiography 'Infidel' where she denounced Islam after 9/11...
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Walking the Southbank
London's Southbank is both a tourist mecca and a historical epicentre, with traditional and contemporary architecture. I walk from Tate Britain to Tate Modern recording my highlights...
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My Auckland
It’s not the buildings that make a city, but the spaces between them. Auckland is defined by hidden treats and in-your-face ones that we often forget. Auckland is the Shoreline, the two harbours, the Viaduct, as well as a mix of cultures...
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Royal visit
We had a tour of the liner before the Trelise show, amidst high security with face scanning and barcode ID tags exchanged for our passports. I guess they don't want any media stowing away on the cruise which starts around $270 a day...
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Live and loud: Top Gear
ASB Showgrounds reverberated with the revving of supercars, chainsaws and stunt cars, as UK car show celebrities Jeremy Clarkson and James May joined Kiwi racing driver Greg Murphy on the stage at Top Gear Live...
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A week of Whitsundays
Australia is only a hop, skip and a jump away. Kiwi tourists seem to frequent the same cities in Australia and miss out on the many other gorgeous destinations awaiting us, and the Whitsunday Coast is one of these places, says Melissa...
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London page-turner
The smell of ink on paper and the discovery of it all was something else; and something I can’t wait for next year to do again, says Miles Langley at The London Art Book Fair...
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