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Bicester on my tongue

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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