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Tuk a ride on the Pan-American Highway

My Best Shot: Kyoto, Japan

What a Discovery! Life onboard a Tui cruise ship

Zoom in: Hanoi, Vietnam

Chalkmarks success in London lockdown photo contest

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SPRAWLED across two sun beds, I drop off to sleep with a racket in my hand. I haven’t even been playing tennis.

MALTA is like being in the UK but with the heat turned up. No wonder hundreds of Brits visit each year.

I CAN’T run up there, I squeaked. No one mentioned anything about having to sprint up a vertical sand dune.

PULL up a stool, dangle your legs and get stuck into the bar snacks. But first a drink...anywhere around the god Neptune.

September 2020

Staycation UK

Why Edinburgh is scarily good for a city break
DOWN the narrow stone steps and into Edinburgh’s dark and damp vaults. I look around. There’s nothing to see. No one.

Burn on the beach: Why North Devon is perfect for a week of exercise and diet
I CAN’T run up there, I squeaked. No one mentioned anything about having to sprint up a vertical sand dune.

A trilogy of tartan treats in Aberdeen
FOR a moment I lose myself. I am drinking Scotch straight from the cask. All of a sudden comes a roar of fire.

The world on a plate in Soho
WHAT if you had just one night in London and you didn’t want to waste time? That’s where Eating London Tours comes in.

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Mail on Sunday

You’ve had Champagne, tasted Prosecco, tried Cava, now who’s for a Crémant?
IT’S the fabulous festive fizz from France that’s about to burst the prosecco bubble.

Experience Denmark’s second city, Aarhus
DESPITE those Scandi-noir sagas and Sarah Lund jumpers, Denmark has been voted the happiest place on the planet.

Living in Lima
AFTER backpacking around Peru Natalie Chalk is hooked but finds teaching English in Lima to be full of surprises.

The challenge of my life Cycling through Umbria
THE words ‘bike’ and ‘holiday’ are not two that I would ever put together, but here I am with my ‘go as fast as I dare’.